Hey everyone! We are excited that we are still going to have church… but from your homes! We hope you will join us.

Parents, we need your help tonight! Here is the plan:

6:00 – 6:15

We’ve recorded a short lesson for tonight and you can watch it here:

(Please forgive the about 10 second blank space near the end of the video, it does pick back up).

6:15 – 6:45

Ask the kids to share with you what the lesson was about. Encourage or help them to read the passage 2 Kings 4:1-17.

6:45 – 7:00

Get ready for a game (or more) of Quiplash. This is a party game that we’re going to try to play together via streaming. For full details on how to join and how to play please review this:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K6vDUXPuVQPJ56EcWtDawWgR3vy2XVarlGLGlL7_moY/edit?usp=sharing

If you know how to play, please at least skip to page 6 and review our rules.

Important: the link for the stream for Quiplash will be shared on a new blog post here about 6:45. We will start playing at 7:00. Watch here for it: http://www.elimqc.org/category/sparks/

Parents are welcome to play with us! Or join the audience and vote! If the first game fills quickly we will ask that parents let kids be players for sure in the second game. Each game lasts about 15 minutes.

7:00 – End

Quiplash!!!!!

Extra Fun!

Good Morning Spark Families!

I hope some of you got to jump into the Parentzmatter: The Quarantined Family webinar the other night. I really enjoyed the input and reminders that the guest speakers gave. I especially loved Johnathon Banks advice to schedule in Honors Dishes and AP Laundry, and that Parenting is a FULL CONTACT SPORT :)! Also listening to Dannah Gersh speak about “meatloaf” moments, gave some relief that we all have conflict in our lives no matter where we are in life, I loved that she said conflict is proof of connection. If you didn’t have a connection, didn’t care, you wouldn’t have a reason to fight or have conflict. How powerful to think of it like that. Seriously if you didn’t get a chance to see it check it out, there is sooooo much good stuff to glean from it, the video is still up at the link below! https://www.facebook.com/ParentzMatter/videos/248314282870665/

After watching that yesterday, we sat down together as a family, made up and implemented a schedule. It wasn’t easy or fun but we let the kids choose 1 thing to be put into the schedule. We wanted to give them ownership of it. It worked well for the most part. 🙂 With 4 kids its hard not to have disagreements and being cooped up means frustrations happen more often than not. I found myself escaping to the bathroom to collect myself a couple of times through out the day, any other mamas feel me there? Sometimes a self issued time out is needed, once we are calm we can help them be. Our schedule isn’t perfect by any means but it helped structure the day so that we didn’t have kids lost in electronics mindlessly playing video games and not engaging with family and school work. I am going to share ours just so you can see it doesn’t have to be extravagant or anything crazy, in all honesty simple is the easiest and more often than not the best course of action! Tomorrow afternoon after our video lesson I will share with you some resources we have found useful during this time!

JOIN US TONIGHT…6pm below is a hint!

Hey kiddos, I hope that you will be able to get on and see my video I know its not the coolest or most fun video ever but I promise to get better as we go. I am working on some fun new things for the next coming weeks, So don’t give up on me and keep coming back to see whats going on!

Today we are finishing up our Gods Wars series and Next week we will move on to something fun and exciting check the video for more details!!

KIDS BIBLE CHALLENGE – READ 1st Samuel Chapters 4-7 (yes 3 chapters!) Send us a video, picture, text or letter (I love getting mail) to share your favorite part of today’s bible story with us.

PARENTS CORNER – Hey parents if you have a moment I have a resource I would love to share with you Monday March 23, 2020 8 pm there is a free online event called The Quarantined Family hosted by an amazing Children’s Pastor and Publisher Ryan Frank with many other speakers as well. Topics covered during this 75-minute event include: How to schedule your day, How to help kids cope in times of uncertainty, Fun ways to gather around God’s Word, How to thrive as a family, embrace the positives, And more! You can register today even if you cant carve out a full 75 minute chunk of time register and after the event you will receive the video recording so you can view it on your own time, HOW COOL!! (Again totally free, registration is so that they have your email to send the video link to) just follow this link… https://kidzmatter.lpages.co/the-quarantined-family/

Hey everyone! I am so excited to try this new journey together so we can continue Church together. Come back tomorrow to check out our video lesson and service with Pastor Steve! We know that this is a crazy time but be brave. If you check back here I will be sharing pages, videos and lots of fun stuff, as well as on Facebook and the Marco Polo app for those on there. I miss seeing all your sweet faces and pray for you daily!

Remember :

THE LORD WILL FIGHT FOR YOU, JUST STAY CALM!! Exodus 14:14

During this unique time we will be posting resources for parents AND our elementary/preschool kids here. Most of this will come from Victoria but we’re exploring some other unique options as well! I’m looking forward to seeing what we can do to help your families!