At the Answers in Genesis Conference we purchased a new curriculum to help our children build a Biblical
Worldview. The title is "It All Begins With Genesis".
Here's the description: There are 34 lessons taking you through Genesis 1-11 to help you understand the importance of a biblical worldview and how it must be founded on the authority and accuracy of God's Word. You will carefully examine the text to uncover links to other passages, the meaning of words in context, and understand the people in the Bible through character studies. Using the inductive method of study, you will learn how to start from the text and examine it in a systematic way. Studying the text by starting from ground level and moving on up to a bird's-eye view will show you how the message of the Bible is consistent throughout and connected to everyday life.
Along the way, you will learn how to build your thinking--starting with a biblical foundation to understand the world around you. Understanding the difference between how the world sees the history of earth and how the Christian should view it as a crucial part of defending the faith. Developing a biblical worldview begins by knowing what the Bible teaches.
Get prepared to read and understand the Bible and apply it to your life--strengthening your faith and becoming equipped to share with others and defend what you believe.
The study includes a memory verse for each lesson and hands on activities to help cement the message being covered.
We are interested in doing this as families one evening a week starting in the fall. If you are interested in attending with your family, please let us know and we will decide on a day of the week. We'd probably prefer to do this on a Wed., Thurs,. or Sun. evening from about 7 to 8:15 or 8:30.
You can check out the link below for more info.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/PublicStore/product/It-All-Begins-with-Genesis-Pack,6467,238.aspx
The workbook that follows along is available for $12.99 each for 6 or more copies and could be used one per family or one per child at your discretion.
This program would be done as an age-integrated study (families together) for the year. Let us know if you're interested and the preferred evening.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Summer Fellowship is NEXT week
Just a reminder that the next Summer Fellowship night is Thurs., August 5th, not tonight the 29th.
This will be water night, bring along your squirt guns and we'll do some water balloon games, if anyone has any other game ideas involving water, let us know and we can plan for those.
Bring along a snack to share and a folding chair if you have any.
We'll be in Daniel Chapter 6 with Mr. Angelo this meeting, so be sure and pre-read and give the text some thought.
Only 2 more meetings left, will you all be able to attend the week of Labor Day? I was contemplating whether or not that was the best date for everyone or if they'll be starting back to school and won't fancy coming out for the evening?? If that's the case we can make the 2nd date in Aug. be our last meeting with hot dogs and smores, starting at 6:00. Post a comment and let me know what you'd prefer.
This will be water night, bring along your squirt guns and we'll do some water balloon games, if anyone has any other game ideas involving water, let us know and we can plan for those.
Bring along a snack to share and a folding chair if you have any.
We'll be in Daniel Chapter 6 with Mr. Angelo this meeting, so be sure and pre-read and give the text some thought.
Only 2 more meetings left, will you all be able to attend the week of Labor Day? I was contemplating whether or not that was the best date for everyone or if they'll be starting back to school and won't fancy coming out for the evening?? If that's the case we can make the 2nd date in Aug. be our last meeting with hot dogs and smores, starting at 6:00. Post a comment and let me know what you'd prefer.
Friday, July 9, 2010
Visionary Parenting extra link
This program link from Family Life Today is great to go along with our study from last week.
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/familylife-today/listen/myth-2-good-parenting-leads-to-happy-children-94911.html
The one line that I took away from it when discipling is "I'm not concerned about your happiness, I'm concerned about your holiness". I've heard that used before to adults but never thought about it as far as training and discipling our children. (Warning if you are in your 40's this program might scare you, LOL!) There are also other broadcasts that you can listen to from the same author.
We really got down and specific with chores and if/then yesterday. We made up two charts, one for chores and we got out the marbles and jars and came up with an amount for payment when the jars are full. I did tweak it a bit to fit my desires for my children. For example they each have a list of 4 things or so they must do without earning a marble, like put your pjs away, make your bed, brush your teeth, and keep your room cleaned up. Vaccuuming their room is a marble. Then we made up the chart of all the other chores we could think of and what they are worth. Stephen earned about 11 yesterday, 3 for gathering all the garbage, replacing the bags and taking it out! all by himself, that was awesome, they usually do this in 2's and complain. Oh yes, they each have 1 specific chore they don't get any marbles for i.e. Stephen's is unloading the dishwasher, Emma's is sweeping the foyer and kitchen floors, Amy's is keeping watch over the kitchen and seeing it stays tidy. Everyone is responsible for taking their dishes to the dishwasher each meal as well which keeps down on kitchen messes. Make it what you want it to be and suit your family!
We also made an if/then chart, still working on it for the older gang. The younger though we instituted a few things yesterday. The two younger kiddos lost dessert for throwing sand at eachother in the sandbox, we went through the steps Rob Renow showed and they were good, it did take longer, but not as long as I thought. It really was good! I started to write them out on an indexcard like Barb suggested.
Have a great weekend!
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/familylife-today/listen/myth-2-good-parenting-leads-to-happy-children-94911.html
The one line that I took away from it when discipling is "I'm not concerned about your happiness, I'm concerned about your holiness". I've heard that used before to adults but never thought about it as far as training and discipling our children. (Warning if you are in your 40's this program might scare you, LOL!) There are also other broadcasts that you can listen to from the same author.
We really got down and specific with chores and if/then yesterday. We made up two charts, one for chores and we got out the marbles and jars and came up with an amount for payment when the jars are full. I did tweak it a bit to fit my desires for my children. For example they each have a list of 4 things or so they must do without earning a marble, like put your pjs away, make your bed, brush your teeth, and keep your room cleaned up. Vaccuuming their room is a marble. Then we made up the chart of all the other chores we could think of and what they are worth. Stephen earned about 11 yesterday, 3 for gathering all the garbage, replacing the bags and taking it out! all by himself, that was awesome, they usually do this in 2's and complain. Oh yes, they each have 1 specific chore they don't get any marbles for i.e. Stephen's is unloading the dishwasher, Emma's is sweeping the foyer and kitchen floors, Amy's is keeping watch over the kitchen and seeing it stays tidy. Everyone is responsible for taking their dishes to the dishwasher each meal as well which keeps down on kitchen messes. Make it what you want it to be and suit your family!
We also made an if/then chart, still working on it for the older gang. The younger though we instituted a few things yesterday. The two younger kiddos lost dessert for throwing sand at eachother in the sandbox, we went through the steps Rob Renow showed and they were good, it did take longer, but not as long as I thought. It really was good! I started to write them out on an indexcard like Barb suggested.
Have a great weekend!
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Next Thursday night is Water Balloon Volleyball night!
So come prepared to get wet and hopefully it will be weather in between what we are experiencing this week and last like 80 degrees.
Bring a snack to share, anything goes: store bought or homemade
We'll be in Daniel Chapter 5 with Mr. Steve teaching this week, so read up ahead of time and come prepared to join in with helping to read or answer questions.
Bring a snack to share, anything goes: store bought or homemade
We'll be in Daniel Chapter 5 with Mr. Steve teaching this week, so read up ahead of time and come prepared to join in with helping to read or answer questions.
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