Just SAY NO! Especially for your kid's sake. Please read this article.
http://www.thatsfit.com/2010/03/30/fast-food-is-like-heroin-studies-find/
March 2010 Archives
Friday there is a special service that you would really be blessed by at 7:30. Please join us!
Saturday morning, bring the whole family to celebrate Easter. Pancakes, puppet, egg hunt-don't miss it!
From Green and Clean Mom:
Five tips for Getting Your Indoor Child Outdoors:
1. Bring the indoors outside. Yes, the barbies can come outside and play in the grass!
2. Paint or do indoor crafts outside. Get messy on the driveway and lawn and then you don't have to clean it up. Does your child like to make friendship bracelets, bead and make jewelry? Throw a big blanket down on the lawn and let him or her do their projects outside.
3. Make it Regular. Meaning everyday do something outside for even just 15-20 minutes so your child isn't suprised by you saying it is time to head outside for fresh air. Children like to know what to expect and if you're lucky they won't want to come inside.
4. Play a game. Make outside time fun and interactive. Go on a nature hunt or hide indoor objects outside to see if they can spot what doesn't fit in the wilderness. My son loves this game!
5. Interact. Yes, don't just sit and read or type messages on your Blackberry but enjoy the outside time yourself. Role modeling the outdoor enjoyment will go a long ways.
http://greenandcleanmom.org/vitamin-d-parenting-and-nature/
What does Easter mean to you?
Who is Jesus to you?
What did He do for you?
Do you know His love?
If you don't have answers to any of these questions, we know where to help you find the answers.
The question posed at God's Lunch Bunch bible study was "How should Christians think of themselves?" with the target scripture Romans 12:3. One quick witted member said, "Not 'how great I art.' " After the laughter the profound thought behind the quip sank in. Her thought was in keeping with the larger passage of the scripture going back to the last part of Romans chapter 11. Verse18 says, '...remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you' and 'for who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has become His counselor? or who has first given to Him [God] and it shall be repaid to him?' (v 34, 35)
If we Christians put our identity and ego, if you will, into perspective based on the perfect holiness of God we can find ourselves feeling pretty low. Going into this holy season heading toward Easter we can focus on the amazing depth of love that led Jesus to sacrifice Himself for us. If we are loved that much and can accept that love it helps us balance our perspective.
There is a huge danger to those around us when we feel that maybe we could be high and mightly enough to "counsel God" or that we have somehow given to God in a way that makes Him owe us something. Nothing pushes people away from the love of God much faster than a person calling themself Christian but neglecting to act in perfect love toward those around them. The early Christians spread their message so rapidly because they completely believed in God's love, because it was unlike anything the world had ever seen, and most importantly because they showed God's love to those they witnessed to.
It has not, nor ever ever will it be our job to act as only the Holy Spirit should, pointing out the sin in other's hearts. It takes that Trinity, God who creates, directs and loves us and will ultimately welcome or refuse us based on whether we claim Him; Jesus who sacrificed Himself and was our example of perfect love (to the woman caught in the very act of adultery he said, "neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more") and the Holy Spirit who instructs, encourages, convicts, and communicates to God for us. We Christians should love as Christ loved, encourage and support as the Spirit does and then our actions and words will point others to the Father. We won't have any positive impact on our world if they think we are humming under our breath "How Great I Art."
There is a concerted effort from government to be sure that parents of young children are completing their census information. Children under the age of six (especially in high risk or hard to count areas) are under-reported [not counted] at an estimated rate of three quarters of a million children. This impacts available funding for programs that support quality of life for at risk children of this age. In an era where budget cuts are hitting early childhood benefits particularly hard it is important that there be an accurate count for budgeting.
All early childhood programs are being asked to pass this information on to our families.
Here are the first two weeks. Please note: due to a meat donation Thursday, March 4th lunch is Turkey or ham sandwich, Baked beans and mixed fruit.
http://sunchips.com/healthier_planet.shtml?s=content_compostable_packaging
Cool! and Sunchips have high enough nutritional value to count as a preschool snack.
We have some very nice items of clothing that have turned up and no one has claimed them:
A new faded glory jacket; brown 4 T
A baby gap 2T sweatshirt and pant set also brown
A pink levi hoodie 4T
and also a tall princess sippy cup
