Hello everyone! I hope your Easter was awesome!

This is our last Wednesday night gathering until September. It's been a fantastic year, thank you so much for letting your student be a part of Wednesday Night Community!

This week we're doing a special "Small Group Leader Event" for the night to celebrate the year. The boys will all be hanging together with Alan and Lane at the baseball field outside the church to grill hotdogs, eat together, and play some awesome field games.

The girls will be hanging together with Nicole and Kristin at the Stenholtz home, 731 E. Harvard Street, Oconomowoc, to paint nails, play games, and other things fun activities. Girls, please bring a snack to share.

Please have your student to the correct location! Please let me know if you have any questions!

And Sunday we're going to be doing "Take a Stand" to discuss and debate some topics together. Be sure to ask your student their opinions about the topics we're going to be discussing on Sunday!

If you're not hooked up with the "Parents of Middle School Ministry" page on Facebook, let me know and I'll get you added to the group!

 

Join us - Hooper Family Farm Tour

WHO: Middle School Students & Small Group Leaders

WHEN: Wednesday, May 1 | 6-7:30 pm Students needing a ride to the farm will meet at Oakwood Church at 5:20pm. Those students will then return to  Oakwood Church at 8pm. All other students can get   dropped off and picked up at the farm.

WHERE: Hooper Family Farm, N1886 Zion Road, Palmyra, WI

NO COST: Middle Schoolers are encouraged to bring friends.

 

Are you coming to Phase Day?

PHASE DAY will encourage, equip, empower and energize the entire family with phase-specific Waypoints for parents and kids to experience together. 

Here’s the training you’ll receive: 

8:30am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

9am: Welcome & Living in 3D

9:30am: Waypoint Break Out Sessions

• FAITH STEPS (Age 3-Kindergarten)
• TABLE TALK (1st-5th grade)
• IMAGE (6th-11th grade)
• 12 STONES (12th grade only) 

11am: Closing

Cost: $5/person, $15 family maximum - Includes breakfast, snacks and supplies. Register HERE!

 

Wet n' Wild Water Park Night

Click HERE for all the details and to register!

 

We'll see you soon!

Myles "Tails" Hanson
Middle School Director

 

This Week:

On Wednesday small groups will wrap up for the semester in the Dangerous devotional and on Sunday, Launch will wrap up for Junior and Seniors. Freshmen and Sophomores will close out their series on Apologetics with a look at Creation.

 

Guatemala Mission Trip Team:

Two critical trainings are coming up! First, this Sunday, April 28th from 11:40a to 1:30p at Oakwood (lunch will be provided) and then Wednesday, May 1st from 7-9p at the Larson’s (1308 Rockridge Rd 118 Waukesha).

 

Are you coming to Phase Day?

PHASE DAY will encourage, equip, empower and energize the entire family with phase-specific Waypoints for parents and kids to experience together. 

8:30am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
9am: Welcome & Living in 3D
9:30am: Waypoint Break Out Sessions

• FAITH STEPS (Age 3-Kindergarten)
• TABLE TALK (1st-5th grade)
• IMAGE (6th-11th grade)
• 12 STONES (12th grade only) 

11am: Closing

Cost: $5/person, $15 family maximum - Includes breakfast, snacks and supplies. Register HERE!

 

Senior Send-Off:

Seniors, join us for a special send-off on Saturday, May 11th from 3:30p until 9p (meet at Oakwood). We have special activities planned throughout the afternoon and evening (dinner included, no cost) We look forward to celebrating with you!

The Bible talks multiple times not only about children, but about adoption itself.  It is clear that adoption is dear to the heart of Christ and should be central to the mission of Christians globally. 

Here are 10 Bible verses about adoption that you can read, click HERE.

To read more about the Mission: Hope Ministry click HERE.

Here’s what we’ll be talking about on Sunday, April 28^th— 

Elementary—God is Gracious
Matthew 20 (Parable of the Workers in the Field) 

Showing grace means giving someone something wonderful that they don’t deserve. God is gracious, and shows grace to us, but His grace doesn’t always look like what we expect. In the parable of the workers in the vineyard / field, Jesus reminds listeners to approach God with gratitude and thankfulness for all He’s given because everything, including salvation and our next breath, is a gift from God. Jesus shows how God graciously gives to all of us as He chooses. 

This may not seem fair. No one in the parable of the workers in the field was dealt with fairly. Everyone got at least what he’d been promised. Though God’s grace doesn’t always look like what we expect, we can always be sure it’s His best for us. 

April Bible Verse: I John 4:9
 

 

Preschool—God is Worthy of Worship
Luke 17 (The Ten Lepers) 

During the time when Jesus lived on earth, leprosy was a disease that made people very sick. People didn’t want to catch leprosy, so they made everyone who had the disease live away from everyone else. One day Jesus came across 10 men with leprosy. They called out to Jesus to help them. So Jesus healed them! One of the ten lepers was so full of joy that he ran back to Jesus and began to worship Him. Jesus had healed him. Jesus was worthy of worship. God is worthy of our worship too! 

At Home Weekly Tru Wonder 

April Bible Verse: Psalm 119:76

  

2 Year Olds–Jesus is the Good News
Matthew 28 (The Great Commission) 

Before Jesus went back to heaven, He gave the disciples an assignment: they were to spread the Good News to all people everywhere. We have that same assignment today—tell others that Jesus is the Good News! 

At Home Weekly Tru Blessings

 

Offering Update—RFKC & Change for Change Contest Winners!

Our offering on April 14th came to $57.73, bringing our total for RFKC to $218.75!

Bring your CHANGE for CHANGE Contest Winners!

April 14^th Winners:
            Preschool – 3 year olds!
            Elementary – 2^nd Graders! 

NOTE: The kids have had so much fun competing with their offerings we’re going to continue our contest through Sunday, May 19^th. So, keep on saving and bringing your change to make a change!

 

Wednesday Night Community, April 24^th– Last Night!

As we finish our “Diary of a Godly Kid” study we’ll see David shows God’s love to others—even when they are trying to kill him! You see, a godly kid loves others. This is the exact opposite of what our selfish, human nature wants us to do—especially when someone is being mean to us. 

Our Preschoolers will finish their year crossing the Jordan River into God’s Promised Land. Yay! (Joshua 3-4)

 

PHASE DAY – May the 4^th—Be with us!

We’ll have special opportunities to talk with your preschooler and elementary students in FAITH STEPS and TABLE TALK. Have more questions about each Waypoint? Let us know. We’d be glad to share more information. Click HERE to register your family.

 

SpringHill Day Camp - Kindergarten-5th grade

Scholarships are still available. Contact me for more information. To register for camp click HERE. 

 

Camp Discovery – Preschool Day Camp!

For more information and to register click HERE.

 

Have a wonderful week! 

Becci Terrill
Children’s Ministries Director
262-844-3201 (cell)
262-367-1212 (office)

 

Energizing the Next Generation to Love God,
Love Others and Make Disciples

 

4/23/19

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On April 5th and 6th Oakwood Church was one of the locations for Show Hope's Empowered To Connect simulcast.  During this two day conference we hosted 40 educators, parents and social workers who wanted to learn more about how to integrate TBRI  (Trust Based Relational Intervention) into their lives. 

 

Here are 10 Resources for Understanding TBRI.

 

 

To read more about the Mission: Hope Ministry click HERE.