We gave many of our kids ministry staff and volunteers the weekend off this past weekend due to the holiday, so many of our kids joined us with their families in the main services for worship. We planned a more kid-friendly service for them around the topic of courage as we continued our series in Acts. Over the course of the service, here's what we experienced:
- a patriotic countdown and opening video.
- a worship set of songs the kids worship to at KidStuf and KidVenture... including this one synced with this video. We passed out red and blue LED mini-lights to everyone in the audience, shut the house lights down, and let our lights shine out. Pretty cool moment!
- a giveaway of several vouchers to Lost Island water park.
- a great story from the Morlans, a PLC family that has lived through the story of a kidney transplant - from mother to son.
With Chris Rygh preaching live from Cedar Falls and Ron Phares preaching live from Waterloo, we shepherded our folks through a moment at the end of the service set up by one of the virtue videos that our Children's ministry has used in the past. We sat and wrote down our fears on a sheet of paper, and then prayerfully committed to living more courageous lives, because:
God can do extraordinary things with the courage of ordinary people.
Read Acts 4 again this week - the text from this past weekend. Ask God to help you to live with the same courage of Peter and John. Let's stamp out fear this week.
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