AUGUST MEMORY VERSE
“Shout triumphantly to the Lord, all the earth!” (Psalm 100:1)
The word worship means to show reverence and adoration for. When we worship God, we offer our thanksgiving, our love, our adoration, and our praise to God. Worship also allows us to take time from our hectic schedules to center on God and God’s great love. Worship does not have to be done in a church setting. You can take time wherever you are to worship God. When we worship, we use our hearts, minds, and, yes, we can use our bodies too! Think of liturgical dance.
Think of the many ways you have worshipped in the past. Was there a worship experience where you felt closest to God? Take time each day this week to spend time in worship. It can be singing praise to God or silently praying. God loves our adoration whenever and wherever we give it.
Psalms have played a significant part in the worship life of God’s people for many years. Many were written for use in corporate worship, while others are the prayers of individuals. Psalms continue to play a significant role in both Jewish and Christian worship, as well as being used for individual prayer and devotion. The Book of Psalms was written over a period of several hundred years from about the tenth century bc to about 100 bc. Seventy-three of the one hundred–fifty psalms are considered to be psalms of David. While David likely authored some of these psalms, others with this designation were probably written for him or dedicated to him, rather than written by him. The remaining psalms were authored by a variety of individuals who may have been court poets, prophets, priests, or scribes.
In Psalms we find a reflection of the entire range of human emotion. There are psalms expressing sadness, joy, anger, happiness, despair, hope, fear, and trust. Psalms teach us that whatever you are feeling, you are not alone in that experience; one of the psalmists has felt similar pain or experienced similar doubt or celebrated similar joy. We learn from Psalms that we may take any emotion or situation to God in prayer. It is a good and appropriate thing to offer our entire human experience
to God.
Psalm 100 is a psalm that children can understand. Here is a Bible verse that actually tells them to make noise! As you teach this week, appreciate the joyfulness that comes naturally to many children. Have fun joyfully worshipping and praising God together, and join us on Zoom on Sunday to say farewell to “Deep Blue” and hello to our new curriculum, “Celebrate Wonder”!
Watch this week’s Deep Blue Adventure video by clicking HERE.
DEEP BLUE ADVENTURES APP
While I was looking for all the new material to share with you about our new unit, I stumbled across this app. I downloaded it for free, and it has all the videos to go along with the Bible story each week. There is a trivia game, a fun scripture game and another maze game that reinforced the verse of the month. It isn’t anything fancy, but I thought I would share if you were looking for new ways to engage your kids with our weekly Bible stories at home. GET IT HERE
Please join our Chapel Hill Kids Facebook Group for prerecorded and “Godly Play LIVE” Sunday School lessons. We will post favorite songs with actions each week as well as lesson plan demonstrations, and much more!
During the month of August, we will continue to post lesson plans and videos on our Chapel Hill Kids Facebook Group. On the last Sunday of the month, we will do a Zoom meeting to show off the memory verse, sing and dance together, and to check in before school starts. Our return date to the church has not been decided at this point.
Topic: August CH Kids Sunday School Zoom Meeting
Time: Aug 30, 2020 10:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 728 4235 0946. |. Passcode: CHKIDS2020