Welcome back old Sparkies and welcome new Sparkies!! We are going to have a great year as we have
many new shining faces for Jesus! This
year we are going to do as last year working our way through the Bible – The
Old and New Testaments - from Creation to the time of Jesus on this earth. We will learn how the Old Testament gives us
glimpses of Jesus and then in the New Testament learning about Jesus – Who He
is and how He can be our Savior. Sure,
many of these accounts in the Bible are referred to as stories – but they are
more than that. These accounts are true
life biographies – each of these biographies sheds some light of why we need
Jesus Christ as our Savior and who He really was and is today. Besides our study time together, each child
works independently in their books memorizing Bibles verses, so please work
with your child to help him/her – and you can commit them in your memory
too. The Bible tells us that we are to
hide God’s Word in our hearts that we might not sin against Him.
Tonight we
have studied one of the most amazing feats of time – God creating the world in
6 literal, remarkable days. Everything
God created was perfect – even the first man and woman. But something very bad happened – sin- with
that first man and woman that caused the perfectness to die. These two needed something to save them from
death, which was the penalty of their sin.
– We, a few thousand years later, have inherited that sin and that need
for salvation from the penalty of our sin.
We are going to spend the rest of year discussing that sin and that need
for salvation – from our Savior Jesus.
You are
welcome to join us anytime at Sparks. You can also check out the AWANA program
at www.fbc.littletonil.org. The Sparks do
have homework by working through their books. Your child will earn “sparks jewels” and other
adornments for their Sparks uniform as they work through their books and also
with attendance. To earn an attendance
award, a child can only miss one unexcused absence per quarter. (Excused absences include: sickness,
deaths, inclement weather, attendance at another church’s AWANA.)
Mrs. Jennifer Schroeder, Mrs. Barb Stein.
