Martial Arts Spring Break & Bible Camp 2010

Church of the Good Shepherd and Gung Fu for Christ
present our Camp for

K-8th Graders 10am-2:30pm Monday-Friday

Camp 1: March 29- April 2 and/or
Camp 2: April 5-9

Our fun will include Bible teaching from Pastor Tim, Gung Fu training from Sifu Steve, archery, pugil stick fighting, airsoft target shooting, star/knife throwing, nunchuck training, games, crafts, and much more!

*All safety equipment provided.

Your tuition will include a Gung Fu t-shirt, training equipment, and snacks.

$80 for your first child, 2nd child 10% off, and each additional family members are 1/2 price.

Please call Lisa @425-512-6225 or the Church of the Good Shepherd @ 425-774-4474 to pre-register with a $15 non-refundable deposit.

Church of the Good Shepherd is located at 2609 Larch Way, Lynnwood, WA 98036

Gung Fu for Christ is really fun and energetic.  I highly recommend this camp and the weekly classes as well.  Your kids will absolutely love it!  If you are interested in signing up for homeschool martial arts classes with Gung Fu for Christ you are welcome to enroll now as well.  This is a great way to get your kids moving and in shape while learning self defense.  You can find more information and pricing at their blog or at their website GungFuforChrist.com.

“No Bible, No Breakfast” ~ In His Word 2010

2 Timothy 3:16-17 – “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.” (ESV)

Job 23:12 – “I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth More than my necessary food.”  (NKJV)

“No Bible, no breakfast.”  Watchman Nee

As we reflect on this past year and contemplate the new year, we’re considering our plans for reading His word daily.  We just read an encouraging sermon about the “Morning Watch”.  There isn’t a more biblical or beneficial way to begin the day.

My husband and I have recently found that we can learn better and stay more focused by combining sight and sound, listening to the bible being read while reading along or reading out loud ourselves. Did you know it only takes about 70 hours to read the entire Bible out loud?  I didn’t.  And we can normally read silently much quicker than that.

The internet provides a myriad of ideas for reading and listening to God’s word.  Below are several Bible reading plans:

• Bible On Radio ~ You can listen through the Bible in a year with Tom Dooley.  It’s free.  Simply go to this site and push play while you are near your computer. This is a great addition to your own reading.  Turn it on while working on the computer.
• Bible Reading Plans ~ You can have your daily reading emailed to you.
• One Year Tract Bible Reading Plan ~ You can read, listen, or both.
• Bible Reading Plans from the beginner to the advanced reader.  I will be using the 180 Day Plan Guided Tour of the Bible first this year.
• Choose your own plan ~ Many choices of different books to read through the year.
• Discipleship Journal Plan ~ “Few things discourage us more from reading the Bible through in a year than falling behind. This plan gives five catch up days every month. This is absolutely golden!”
• Bible Reading Plan for Shirkers and Slackers ~ The advantage of this plan is that it provides guidance as you read each day but does not put you on an internal guilt trip if you miss a day.
• Prof. Horner’s Bible Reading System ~ Unusual, challenging, and life-changing (click read more from the facebook info page for details of the system).   The Ten Lists is a great little application for the web or your internet enabled mobile phone or iPod that sets up and keeps track of this system’s daily readings.

“I ought to pray before seeing anyone. I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.” – Robert Murray M’Cheyne

May God grant us all a deeper relationship with Him through the reading of His Word.

Stir Up the Heart of Missions in Your Homeschool

This is what I love about having this blog.  Being able to share some of the great things that I come across or that others share with me.  It is especially great when it is FREE!  Yes, an entire unit study designed and written for homeschoolers and it’s free.  I haven’t looked through the entire year of lessons but wow, I am intrigued by what is offered here.  Take a look and download it!  Go to Harvestministry.org.

Here is an excerpt about the curriculum:

“The curriculum includes 160 day-by-day teaching plans, missionary highlights, motivational mission stories, crafts, songs, prayer projects, and hundreds of ways to incorporate a passion for the lost into nearly every subject (including Bible Study, Family Devotions, Reading, Writing, Geography, History, Art, Science, and even highlights for Math).

The curriculum presents a “whirlwind tour” of God’s enduring passion for missions, all-the-way-through-history and all-across-the-globe. Using weekly unit-studies, this curriculum is created to be used over a one-year school year, although it can be easily adapted to be used throughout two years. It can be used as a core curriculum guide (for elementary children), or as a supplement to another curriculum. It is written especially for elementary grade levels, but it can also be used for the whole family to study missions together.”