Kids Camp Sign-ups have started. We’ll be going to Crossings
Camps to the JCreek camp in Western Kentucky on July 18-21. This is
for Kids who will enter 3rd Grade-6th Grade in the fall. The total cost
of camp is $239, however, the church pays $75. This means it costs
you $164, which can be paid in 3 payments. The first payment must
be made by Feb. 12 to secure your spot. If you have multiple
children attending Kids camp see Billy.
Youth Camp Sign-ups have started. We’ll be going to Crossings
Camps to the Cedarmore camp near Louisville, Kentucky on July 1216. This is for Youth who will enter 7th Grade-High School Graduates
in the fall. The total cost of camp is $249, however, the church pays
$75. This means it costs you $174, which can be paid in 3 payments.
The first payment must be made by Feb. 12 to secure your spot. If
you have multiple youth attending camp see Billy.
Children’s Advocacy Center-During the month of February we’ll be
collecting supplies for the Children’s Advocacy Center. Supplies
include toilet paper, paper towels, and copy paper. Would you
consider picking some of these items up when you’re at the store?
Courageous Movie Night will be with Victory Baptist Church on
Saturday, February 11th. Child care will be provided. Victory is
located at 649 Old Seminary Rd.
Heart to Honduras Trip Please be praying for Billy, Pastor Rick
(Crossroads, Baxter) and Pastor Curt (Riverdale, Mufreesboro) as
they travel to Honduras and Nicaragua this week.
Need Something this week? Please feel free to call any of the men
on the Leadership Team:
Jim Lemmons
273-2532
Joel Littlefield
273-9574
Justin Stotts
409-7013
James West
235-5432
Family Worship Guide
February 5, 2012
Family Worship Night
Week of February 5, 2012
Devotion: Second Fiddle1
Read: Philippians 2:4
Preschoolers:
1) Do you like when people help you? God wants us to help
others.
2) How can you help other people?
In an orchestra, the first-chair violinist—the most prominent and
high-profile member of the orchestra—leads out by playing the
main melody. While there are other violinists in the string section,
they are not as honored as the lead violinist. This is where we get
the expression “playing second fiddle.”
Children:
1) According to the reading, should we feel sad or bad when we
are the “second fiddle” and not the “first fiddle”? Why or why not?
If you play second fiddle to someone else, it means that the other
person is in a stronger position or is seen as more important than
you. And most of us don’t like feeling that way. We are all born
with the inner drive to be seen as important and the desire to be
honored. We love to be served rather than to serve others. We feel
jealous when someone else gets more attention or more praise
than we do. We are usually scoping out situations to figure out
how we can get the best seat or the biggest slice, not looking for
ways to play second fiddle.
Youth:
1) What does it mean to “die” to yourself?
When we allow other people to get their needs or desires met
while ours go unmet, when we give someone else preferred
treatment while we are ignored, when we put the focus on
another’s achievements or hardships while we stay in the
shadows…that’s what it means to die to ourselves. It is a sure sign
that the Holy Spirit is meeting our need for significance in the
deepest places of our souls. Only then will we be content with
playing second fiddle.
Discussion Questions
1
Nancy Guthrie. One Year of Dinner Table Devotions and Discussion
Starters (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2008), 316.
2) What can you do to serve someone else this week?
2) What can you do this week to put others before yourself?
Adults:
1) A theme running through our culture is the theme of putting
ourselves first. How does this theme line up with the Word of
God? How can we make sure that we don’t fall into the of letting
our culture define us?
2) Think of someone in your life who is in need of the light of
Christ. How can you put this person first these week to show them
that light?
Prayer Thought: Thank God for giving you opportunities to serve
others this week.