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Children’s Thought [bring 5 rolls and two fish-sticks (or little golden fish if necessary)] Today I brought 5 rolls and two fish-sticks. I thought you kids could help me figure out how to share them with everyone. How many people are here? How many pieces would we have to cut each roll into to give everyone…

Children’s Thought: If you could have one wish in the world, up to half a kingdom, what would you wish for? [pause] A good heart will wish for good things. A bad heart will wish for bad things like: Accidents, injuries, revenge In today’s story for the grownups, a girl, whether young or old, won a great…

POVERTY BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF On the corner of Park Row and Beekman Street, New York City, where Horace Greeley’s Statue now stands, stood a man offering $20 gold pieces for $1 each. All day he kept up loudly announcing his wares, but of the thousands that passed him, most paid no attention and others…

A piece of Wood What do I have? What can you do with a piece of Wood or a whole tree? Make lumber, building materials Make furniture Make Toys Make tool handles Make fire cook dinner get warm make s’mores. The bible talks about a foolish carpenter who cuts down a tree in Isaiah 44 for the wood. This…

Who can be a missionary? The Golden boy or girl of church and Sunday school? Certainly. What about someone broken, someone who doesn’t believe in himself or herself. Someone who knows they are a slave to sin. Could they become a missionary, someday? Today, we are going to follow Jesus and see what he…

Planning to camp Two summers ago, we went to CA to visit family, but we also wanted to do some camping in the Eastern Sierras on the return trip. We crossed over to highway 395 and went by: Lone Pine, Independence Big Pine and Bishop. We spent the night in a hillside camp north of Bishop and then tried…

Camping without a light I brought some hats this morning. I wear this hat, just to cover my head and shade my eyes. I wear this hat, when it’s cold and I want my ears warm. I wear this hat when I am working outside and it might rain But what do you think I were this hat for? To see in the dark. Have…

Planting Beans I have in my hand some little beans. These are Kidney Beans because their color and shape looks like kidneys. Would you like to have one to plant? Do you think you can make it grow? What if I told you to take this bean and plant it in the middle of the street our in front of the church?…

The Tired Prophet in 1 Kings 19 , we have the story of Elijah the prophet of God during King Ahab and Queen Jezebel’s time. Elijah had just had a GREAT victory for God, defeating the 450 prophets of Baal. We might imagine this would be the start of a really Awesome series of moves, fixing the Northern…