For 21 weeks in 2019, the students and teachers in Main Street at Hayward Wesleyan Church are interacting with the curriculum from Saturate the World called The Story of God for Kids. 9) Story: Joseph This is the ninth story in the curriculum found in Genesis 37-39, 41-50. Watch the teaching video below: source YouTube Listen to […]
For 21 weeks in 2019, the students and teachers in Main Street at Hayward Wesleyan Church are interacting with the curriculum from Saturate the World called The Story of God for Kids. 8) Story: Jacob and Esau This is the eighth story in the curriculum found in Genesis 25, 27. Watch the teaching video below: source YouTube […]
For 21 weeks in 2019, the students and teachers in Main Street at Hayward Wesleyan Church are interacting with the curriculum from Saturate the World called The Story of God for Kids. 7) Story: Isaac This is the seventh story in the curriculum found in Genesis 22. We reviewed the first 6 stories below: source […]
For 21 weeks in 2019, the students and teachers in Main Street at Hayward Wesleyan Church are interacting with the curriculum from Saturate the World called The Story of God for Kids. 6) Story: Covenant This is the sixth story in the curriculum found in Genesis 11-18, 21. We reviewed the first 5 stories below: […]
For 21 weeks in 2019, the students and teachers in Main Street at Hayward Wesleyan Church are interacting with the curriculum from Saturate the World called The Story of God for Kids. 5) Story: The Flood This is the fifth story in the curriculum, found in Genesis 4-9. Watch the teaching video below: source YouTube […]
For 21 weeks in 2019, the students and teachers in Main Street at Hayward Wesleyan Church are interacting with the curriculum from Saturate the World called The Story of God for Kids. 4) Story: Cain and Abel This is the fourth story in the curriculum, found in Genesis 4. Watch the teaching video below: source […]
Currently in Followers we are interacting with stories that Jesus told people in order to learn what God is like. Yesterday, during the Junior Followers (grades K-2) teaching time we had one of those amazing moments where students say something profound. We were engaging with the story Jesus told about a Samaritan man who stopped […]
For Followers in 2019 at Hayward Wesleyan Church, we decided to spend some time interacting with stories that Jesus told in order to learn what God is like: According to Jesus, What is God Like? The Parable of the Good Samaritan In Luke 10:25-37, Jesus tells the story of a Samaritan helping a man beaten […]
For 21 weeks in 2019, the students and teachers in Main Street at Hayward Wesleyan Church are interacting with the curriculum from Saturate the World called The Story of God for Kids. 3) Story: Separation This is the third story in the curriculum, found in Genesis 1-3. Watch the teaching video below: source YouTube Listen […]
For 21 weeks in 2019, the students and teachers in Main Street at Hayward Wesleyan Church are interacting with the curriculum from Saturate the World called The Story of God for Kids. 2) Story: First Humans This is the second story in the curriculum, found in Genesis 1-23 and Psalm 8. Watch the teaching video […]
In the second half of Followers at Hayward Wesleyan Church in 2019, I decided to interact with stories of Jesus found in the Gospels in order to teach and demonstrate how Jesus showed people what God, his Father, was like. I called the series: According to Jesus, What is God Like? For the first story, I picked the parable […]
For 21 weeks in 2019, the students and teachers in Main Street at Hayward Wesleyan Church are interacting with the curriculum from Saturate the World called The Story of God for Kids. 1) Story: Beginnings This is the first story in the curriculum, found in Genesis 1-3, Psalm 8, Job 38, Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28, […]
What was the big deal in the 1st century for the Jews? What do we do about Rome? “How are these godless pagans oppressing God’s people?” Jews are back in the promised land, so why are these pagans in charge and what are we supposed to do about it? “Not surprisingly, there were disagreements among […]
What is gossip? “We gossip when we talk about someone, rather than directly to him. Two people move closer to each other at the expense of the gossiped-about party, who is focused on in a critical or worries way. You can measure the amount of anxiety in any system by the amount of gossip going […]
As of Thursday, November 8, 2018, after talking with Pastor Chad and the HWC Board, I have submitted my resignation as an assistant pastor at Hayward Wesleyan Church. The hope is to finish out the school year with the students @hwcyouth. I was not asked nor was I forced to resign. There is nothing wrong. […]
A couple of years ago we were teaching the high school students how to engage in basic conversational skills. Then we had them practice on middle school students that same evening! The goal was to engage in relational conversation (asking questions in order to get to know the other person) that led to spiritual conversation […]
The Five Thresholds The Five Thresholds is training material on disciple-making from InterVarsity college ministries. This is what IV has to say about the Five Thresholds: “This is the journey of how people tend to explore faith. Once we understand the process, we can be more helpful to friends moving through each threshold. God is […]
I’m always trying to make signing up for things as efficient as possible, but in order to communicate with our youth group participants and their parents, I need accurate, up-to-date information. So there has to be a system in place to be able to collect this information and I find that using the computer to […]
Terry Esau is a fantastic writer. I just love analogies and metaphors and parables and stories that seek to describe the human condition and the divine conspiracy in this world. Stories have a way of connecting with me in ways that logical, didactic teaching doesn’t. Anyway, Terry Esau wrote a book called: Blue Collar God […]
Children need encouragement. Sure they need correction from time to time (okay, maybe a lot!), but they need lots and lots of encouragement as well. And sometimes in the grind of life where all it seems is happening is busyness, hectic schedules, and disobedient kids, we need to remember that our children (at home, at […]