The Good Work of Teaching Kids! Thank you from Diane.

Thank you for teaching the children at EBC!!

Greetings to all,

I hope that your summer has been a pleasant one with family and friends. 

I want to take some time and exhort all who play a huge part in serving on Sunday’s, Special Child Care events, Impact Services, those of you who step up and serve in times where there are last minute changes.

Pastor Dave and I can’t thank you enough for your servant’s spirit and using your gifts & talents that God has given you to use for the furtherance of the Kingdom of God.

In my devotions from the The Gospel Primer for Christians, today it reminded me of why we serve. “ Saved for Good Works “ When God “works “ in me day by day, He does so in order to produce in me the desire and the power to “ work  for His good pleasure. “  

Philippians 2: 12-13 says "So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed….. work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.”

Ephesians 2:10 says "For we are His Workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.”

This fall, we are entering into year 2 for the second time around with our Children Desiring God curriculum, which goes through the Bible in three years.

It is a privilege to see the changes in the hearts of not only our children but you who faithfully present the Word of God on the level in which our children are hearing it and seeds of truth are being planted in the hearts on a weekly basis.  As well as parents committing to the spiritual upbringing of their children.

Yet we know we are only instruments, servants of God, to share the love of God with children knowing that it is God who draws men, women, boys, and girls to himself.
Let us remind each other. “ Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ." Colossians 3:23-24.

Diane Smith

Director of Children Ministry