CH Parent Connection 021713

Sunday, February 17, 2013
Children’s Ministry
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY!
What are we learning about in Sunday School
during the month of February?
1st – 4th Grade - “Stories of the Kingdom
17th “The Lost Sheep”-Luke 15:3-7
Nancy Harmon
February 21
st
(1 grade A SS teacher)
24th “The Forgiving Father”-Luke 15:11-32
Owen Swift
February 21 (8)
5th Grade - “Stories of the Kingdom”
17th “Taking Care of Those in Need”Matthew 25:31-46
Shellie Thompson
February 21
(2nd Grade A SS teacher)
24th “Professing Belief”- John 11:1-46
February 11:00 Ushers:
17
Lucy Gomez, Emma
Granberry, Holden
Magee
24 Heidi Backhaus, Jordan
Leal, Nicholas Leal
Thanks also to our 8:30
usher, Alan Brooks.
6th Grade
17th & 24th “Giving” (2 Corinthians 9:7)
What are we learning about in Globetrekkers
during the month of February?
“Loving our Neighbors”- Luke 10:25-37
In February, Globetrekkers will learn about the
ministry of Cecelia Beck in Shelby, North Carolina.
Join me in celebrating
with Christopher Granberry
and his family as he is
baptized in the 11:00 service
this morning.
Cecelia lives and ministers in a neighborhood of
poverty & violence in northeast Shelby. She shares
Christ’s transformative love with the hurting people
around her.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday, February 20
Children’s Handbells, 5:00-5:35 p.m., Hand bell room
Children’s Music, Bible Skills, & Missions, 2nd floor, 6:00 – 7:25 p.m.
Sunday, February 24
Youth Choir Spaghetti Lunch & Silent Auction, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., Community Hall Come enjoy a delicious lunch and fellowship to help our youth raise money for their
summer mission trip to Nashville.
Friday, March 1
Marriage Connection, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m., James Gallery
Single Mom’s Night Out, 7:00 p.m., Matt’s on Skillman
Free childcare available by reservation to Staci at slangley@wilshirebc.org by
Sunday, February 24.
Saturday, March 9 – Thursday, March 14
Spring Break Mission Trip to Texas Valley,
for more info contact John Jay Alvaro at jalvaro@wilshirebc.org.
LOTS of fun was had by all at the
annual Friendship Party last Friday night! Special thanks to
Marnie Fisher, Michelle Holley, Brad Lewis, Alexia Louder,
Nathan Farner, and Chris & Abbey Adcox for your leadership!
February 23 is
Cornerstone Fun Day
Do you love working with children as well as
serving the Dallas community?
Wilshire Women’s Ministry will sponsor a
Cornerstone Fun Day on February 23. This
event will serve about 75 children from
Cornerstone Baptist Church, one of Wilshire’s
missions partners. Cornerstone is located in
South Dallas and already provides numerous
services to its community members, including
an after-school Kids Club. The fun day will
help to inform community members about
opportunities for children this semester and
encourage them to get involved.
Ways to serve include face painting, game
supervision, serving food and welcoming
people. Anyone can help with this event,
including male and female, young and old.
Older youth are especially encouraged to get
involved.
Walking the Rescue Tightrope
Weekly Tip from the Love and Logic® Experts
Do you ever feel like you are on a tightrope? On one side of the narrow
line is a scary drop into "Overprotection Canyon" while the other side
offers an even worse fall into "Dangers-of-the-World Abyss." Why is it
so difficult to stay balanced between coddling…and allowing disaster?
This world can be a pretty complicated place. Some dangers can seem
very subtle - even harmless. In other cases, our instinct to rescue kids
can kick in when it's really not necessary.
While we can't give you an easy, one-size-fits-all answer to this
dilemma, we can offer some general guidelines to help you stay balanced:
The event will be held at the Cornerstone
Baptist Church After School Center, located
at 2815 S. Ervay St., from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. If
you would love to help but are unable to
attend that day, consider donating bags of
individually wrapped candy and small prizes.
See the box in the church office labeled
“Cornerstone Fun Day.”
Globetrekkers who participate (with a parent)
can earn bonus points for the Music & Mission
retreat in April.
• If somebody on Planet Earth will be hurt or killed, or somebody's
future will be irreparably damaged, step in and save the day. By
the way, how often is this really the case? Not often.
• Avoid rescuing when kids seem to EXPECT to be rescued. This can
be a dangerous trend - when kids are trained to believe they can be as
irresponsible or reckless as they want and then EXPECT us to swoop
in.
• Be MORE ready to intervene with kids who don't usually need it.
If a kid never seems to need rescued, pay close attention when he/she
does.
• Base your decisions on real needs and real dangers, NOT what
others might think. Parenting is not about impressing the neighbors.
Your kids’ long-term health is way more important than the
perceptions of others.
For more information, contact Tiffany
Forsyth, social work intern, at 214-452-3135.
Thanks for reading and good luck staying balanced! Our goal is to help as
many families as possible.
Sarah Stafford, Assoc. Minister of Music
(214) 452-3121
sstafford@wilshirebc.org
Jedd Hafer
Preschool/Children’s
Ministry Contact information:
Julie Girards, Minister to Children
(214) 452-3106
jgirards@wilshirebc.org
Joan Hammons, Minister of Preschoolers
(214) 452-3141
jhammons@wilshirebc.org