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Apr 2020
An “Empty Easter” message for the kids EMPTY – a word we have been fearing lately. EMPTY shelves at the store. EMPTY classrooms. EMPTY church buildings. EMPTY toilet paper dispensers, for goodness sakes!!! Whatever shall we do? I’m not making fun of the current situation, because it is quite serious. I mean it is a pandemic! All the more reason to be thankful for that word…EMPTY. Today is Easter Sunday. The tomb was EMPTY! We serve a risen Savior. He’s in the world today. That tomb in which Jesus was laid to......
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Apr 2020
A Palm Sunday message for the kids. Today is a Palm Sunday like no other. Usually we are in church waving our palm branches and singing “Hosanna”, but not today. Nevertheless, we can still praise Jesus and recall how He entered into Jerusalem on a donkey with the crowd singing and shouting “Hosanna.” Did you know “hosanna” means “save us” and that is exactly what everyone in the world is wanting–Save us from this pandemic!! So let’s get busy! You may not have the palm branches at your home, but you do......
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Mar 2020
PARENTS: SPOILER ALERT–APRIL FOOL’S DAY IS THIS WEEK!!!! An April Fool’s Message for the kids. Hey! Your shoe’s untied!!!!! Quick, wake up…the sheep are out!!!!! What’s that on your face????? No recess today; we have a test instead!!!!! These are all silly April Fool’s jokes I’ve been a part of. Have you been a part of any silly ones? I bet there have been some good ones. Having a day in our year when we can have fun joking around is a good thing! This year many parents get to “enjoy” all......
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Mar 2020
A March message for the kids. The month of March is just about to blow past us, and I haven’t had a chance to fly a kite yet! Have you? When I was teaching 3rd grade, the month of March always had me getting out the record player and my Mary Poppins album to play the song, “Let’s Go Fly a Kite”. (One student thought the 33rpm record was a giant CD! lol!! Only parents and grandparents will get that!) We all sang… Oh, oh, oh!Let’s go fly a kiteUp to the......
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Mar 2020
Give me an S! Give me a P! Give me an R! Give me an I! Give me an N! Give me a G! What’s that spell? Louder!! YAY!!! Yes, indeed! It is spring! Now that is something to cheer about! When I looked spring up in the dictionary there were so many definitions for it. As a verb, there were 6 definitions for spring. As a noun, there were 6; and as an adjective, there were 3 definitions. So, spring can mean a lot of things! Hey, that’s a cheer!!! “Spring......
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