The Rapture

As usual, we began the evening with some energetic worship songs.

Some of our praise team this week included Christina, Riley, Alexandria, Megan and Amber:


Some more praisers - Amber, Delaney and Connor:


Our lesson this week was about being ready for the rapture, so our game followed that theme. Andrew and Megan correctly answered review questions to play "Racing the Rapture" where they had to use a magnet attached to a string to race around the room and "catch up" 4 paper doll type people. We didn't want a single one left behind! It was close enough to call it a tie for the winner.

Andrew got another one!


Megan is on her last one!


After some worship time, Sister Dawn taught a Bible lesson about when Jesus ascended into heaven. She had some children looking up, wondering where He was going. Then, some angels came and told them that He would be back! What great news! He wants us to all be ready when He comes back to take us to Heaven with Him.


Our Bible verse this week was:

"Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come"

We put some motions to the words and practiced several times:

Our object lessons helped the children see the importance of being ready and why we DO NOT want to miss the rapture! We talked about cleaning out our heart like our parents do when a guest is coming over for dinner. We don't want to be ashamed of a dirty home and we don't want to be ashamed if we have a dirty heart when Jesus comes. We need to repent, be baptized and have God's Spirit living in us to be ready - then we need to live a life that is pleasing to Jesus.

Sister T showed a demonstration of the verses in Matthew where 2 are working in the field and one is taken while the other is left. Two women were grinding at the mill - one was taken and the other was left. They all agreed that being left would not be good. We want to be ready when He comes for us. What if the one time we - watch what we shouldn't, go where we shouldn't, do what we shouldn't - what if that is when He comes for us? NOTHING is worth missing the rapture for! The children's hearts were stirred and we took some time to pray and repent and ask Jesus to help us be ready at any time and to make good choices as we grow.

We then had some open discussion with them and had some good conversation, before ending with more energetic worship! I love when they plead to do praise songs!

Ben and Peyton having some fun:


Faith in praise motion:


We love your kids and pray that as they grow, they will follow Jesus with a passion that nothing in the world can rival! We want them to be ready for the rapture!

We are gearing up for our Children's Crusade in a couple of weeks where we are expecting God to do great things in these children!