Hello Chapel Hill Families!

We had a great turn out for our second Summer @ the Hill fellowship event. 38 Kids and Adults enjoyed watching “Sing 2” and eating unlimited amounts of popcorn! Big thank you to Larry Gustin for popping all the popcorn. Our final Summer @ the Hill event will be Sunday, July 24th at 6:30PM. We will gather in the prayer garden to roast marshmallows and sing songs with Josh Melcher and his guitar. This was my favorite summer event last year, and all are welcome to join us!

Our July Faith Word is “PRAISE”, and our memory verse is from Psalm 150:6. Bible stories this month include:

• 7/3/22- “David Dances” (2 Samuel 6:12-19)
• 7/10/22- “Shout with Joy” (Psalm 100)
• 7/17/22- “Praise the Lord” (Psalm 150)
• 7/24/22- “Mary’s Song” (Luke 1:46-55)
• 7/31/22- “Salt & Light” (Matthew 5:13-16)

 A couple of reminders for our new kindergarten families:

• Our volunteers are supposed to arrive by 9:00, but life happens and sometimes they are running late. Please try to drop off kids between 9:15 and 9:30 AM to avoid waiting on them to arrive.
• Please walk your children back to their classrooms at drop off. We want our volunteers to see who goes with which kid to help speed up our pick up time.
• Don’t forget your pick-up ticket. You will show this to get back to the children’s wing and again to their teacher to pick them up.
• Remember that kids are now promoted to their next grade level so check that their name tags show they are in the right group. Please let Ryan know if it is incorrect.

We sponsor cousins, Neema & Kikwete, who live in the Angel House Orphanage in Tanzania, Africa. We have pledged to give $90/month in order to provide food, clothing and schooling to these children at Angel House. Each Sunday, kids have the opportunity to bring money to put into our offering for Neema and Kikwete. Would you help us meet our goal by sending your child with $1.00 each week? Our former Director of Children’s Ministries, Raegan Brane, has visited Angel House in the past. You can find out more information about the Grassroots Organization and Angel House by clicking HERE.

REMINDER:

If you have a 3rd, 4th or 5th grader that has a Deep Blue Bible, please help them remember to bring it with them to Sunday school each week! We don’t have many extras of that particular version at the church and they will be looking up and reading scripture every time they come to church from now on.

Don’t forget to check our Chapel Hill Kids Facebook Group regularly for the most up to date information. If you haven’t checked your child’s information on the birthday post, please make sure you do so as soon as possible. I have marked it as an announcement so you can easily find it. If you have moved in the last year, please contact the office so that we have your correct address on file so they can receive some birthday mail. The office number is (316) 684-1117.

Blessings to you and your children,

Allison

Celebrate Wonder is a Sunday school curriculum that engages children’s natural sense of curiosity to help them understand God’s love. It creates a safe environment for kids to ask big questions — helping them explore the Bible in ways that feed their imagination and encourages creativity. Through carefully-selected Bible stories, songs, videos, and hands-on activities, Celebrate Wonder gives children the tools to explore their faith while incorporating it into their daily lives.

Each month, our weekly stories will align with a Faith Word. The Faith Word for the month of July is, “PRAISE”.

The Book of Psalms is an incredible book of Hebrew poetry. There are poems that express great gratitude and praise to God, but that’s not all that’s in the Psalter. The Psalter contains several genres: prayers for help and lament (both for individuals and communities), hymns of praise to be sung in worship, songs of thanksgiving for individuals and communities, instructional psalms, royal psalms relating to the king, and liturgies used in worship at the temple.

The Psalter could be read as one whole book or is divided into five books. If we side with The New Interpreter’s One-Volume Commentary on the Bible, then the five books are Book I (1–41), Book II (42–72), Book III (73–89), Book IV (90–106), and Book V (107–150).

Psalm 150 is the Closing Doxology of Book V and of the entire Book of Psalms. If you were to read the Book of Psalms from Chapter 1 through Chapter 150, you’d conclude the experience is that of moving from lament to praise, both individualy and in community. What we see in many of the psalms is praise and thanksgiving for all that God has done and will do for the people of God.

Find some time to praise God through playing music! You don’t have to be a musician to play music either. Whether you have an instrument or you make a beat by clapping, playing music is one way of expressing praise.