A few years ago I wrote the following article.

     “This Sunday is graduation day in our Sunday School. We will have a time of giving certificates to those in the preschool, children, and youth departments during our Sunday School hour. A big congratulation to each of those who have reached another milestone in their life.

     Speaking of Sunday School, we recently have a wonderful evening of food, fellowship, and challenge as the teachers and officers with spouses met at our church. It was great to share with one another and to learn about the new materials coming our ways to help us in the Sunday School. Bill and June Smith (Bill is our Potomac Association Director of Missions),gave us an excellent challenge for our Sunday School. Let me share the major thrust.

     First, we need to define our purpose for Sunday School. Certainly, we need to have Bible study, but what is our purpose? Each of us will have to define the answer to that question. Let me give you the purpose that the majority of us see. Our purpose is to reach people. Sunday School is the evangelism arm of the church.

     Second, we need to teach the Bible is small groups, adapting the material to our needs and the age groups we teach. Preschoolers are different from adults. We need to share as teachers and officers to encourage one another.

     Third, we need to apply the Bible to life. As we meet together, our fellowship should provide a place for us to share is a meaningful manner with one another. In so doing we can find the practical side of the Bible lesson so we can profit in our lives.

     Fourth, we need to evaluate. Classes change. Methods change. Needs change. We should take time to look at these and other items from time to time. Perhaps a new class needs to be started. We are in a large mission field. We need not go far away to find thousands who do not know Christ. They are right next door. Let us find ways to enroll them.

     I challenge each of us to be a regular attender in Sunday School. Our new annex provides excellent space for classes to expand and grow. If you’re not in a class now, come this Sunday and be a part of this vital ministry.

In Him, Dave”

     Fast forward to today. We still have Sunday School. How we call it Bible Study for those out of Middle School. Our classes are combined, meaning English and Hispanic for those Young People and below. All adult classes are taught in the separate languages.

     We need two things:

          Firstly, a Director. Shanna James had done a great job, but now she wants to devote her time to Youth and a Women’s Conference.

          Secondly, We need students. Traditionally, the Bible study classes have been the evangelization for the church. People enter into a small group and become involved in the church.

     Think about these things and I hope you will come Sunday and join a class. At this time, classes begin at 9:00 AM. We have a Women’s class taught by Maureen Holt, A Young Peoples Class taught by Larry Jimenez, and a mixed adult by Preston Barber.

 

How Great is Our God

I came across this he other day. It is wonderful food for thought. I believe the more I study and reflect, God's intelligent design is seen everywhere.

      How great our God

 Our Creator and Redeemer . . . and do we THINK about it? God's accuracy may be
 observed in the hatching of eggs, for example: the eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days;
 those of the canary in 14 days;
 those of the barnyard hen in 21 days;
 The eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days;
 those of the mallard in 35 days;
 The eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days.(Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the

  number of days in a week!)

 God's wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant.
 The four legs of this great beast all bend forward in the same direction. No other quadruped is so made.    God planned that this animal would have a huge body, too large to live on two legs. For this reason He gave it four fulcrums so that it can rise from the ground easily.

 The horse rises from the ground on its two front legs first. A cow rises from the ground with its two hind legs first. How wise the Lord is in all His works of creation!

 God's wisdom is revealed in His arrangement of sections and segments, as well as in the number of grains.

 -Each watermelon has an even number of stripes on the rind.
 -Each orange has an even number of segments.
 -Each ear of corn has an even number of rows.
 -Each stalk of wheat has an even number of grains.
 -Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row an even number of bananas, and each row decreases by one, so that one row has an even number and the next row an odd number.

 -The waves of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to the minute in all kinds of weather.

 All grains are found in even numbers on the stalks, and the Lord specified thirty fold, sixty fold, and a hundred fold all even numbers.

 God has caused the flowers to blossom at certain specified times during the day. Linnaeus, the great botanist, once said that if he had a conservatory containing the right kind of soil, moisture and temperature, he could tell the time of day or night by the flowers that were open and those that were closed!

 The lives of each of you may be ordered by the Lord in a beautiful way for His glory, if you will only entrust Him with your life. If you try to regulate your own life, it will only be a mess and a failure. Only the One Who made the brain and the heart can successfully guide them to a profitable end..

 The Bible
 When you carry "the Bible", Satan has a headache, when you open it, he collapses,
 when he sees you reading it, he loses his strength, and when you stand on the Word of God, Satan can't hurt you! And did you also know...

a little child shall lead them! Blessings to all. Dave