January 14th Resource Guide

Salt & Light

9 a.m.

Please arrive by 8:30 a.m. Downloadable PDF Lesson Plans for 9:00 a.m. Service:

10:45 a.m.

Please arrive by 10:15 a.m. Downloadable PDF Lesson Plans for 10:45 a.m. Service:

Leader Devo

Imagine walking in your community in complete darkness. As you walk, no lights are on in houses. There aren’t streetlights. There’s no light to show the way. Pitch black. Then you pass by someone with a flashlight. It illuminates the darkness. Everything becomes clear. That one light changes everything.

Now think about the darkness representing people who don’t know God. They are in your community. They live in those houses you just walked by. They can’t find their way because they haven’t seen the light. And then you come along. You are the one shining the flashlight because you have a light within you. You shine your light on the ones in darkness, and they begin to experience Jesus. And then their light begins to shine, and the darkness is a little less dark because now two of you are shining Jesus. Then someone in the next house sees the light, moves toward it, and they begin to experience Jesus.

Read Matthew 5:14–16.

What would it look like if each of us turned our Jesus light on in our community? Who do you think will see it? Who do you hope will see it?

What if kids turned their Jesus light on this week?

Imagine how bright the light would be. Imagine how your community would change!

—Stephanie Rhyne

Kids Ministry Content Creator

Contributor to Wonder Ink

 

*Wonder Ink Video for this series*

WORD OF WONDER

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.”

—from Matthew 5:8

The volunteer schedule, including adults and youth volunteers, is available below.

Author

  • Kristin Langford is the Ministry Leader for Early Childhood Ministry at Stonebriar Community Church. She is responsible for loving on kids birth through kindergarten and their parents. She has a passion for helping moms navigate the sometimes stressful waters of parenting preschool-age children and meeting all the other expectations in their lives.

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