Every IL/MO church should be receiving a TFC mailing giving the details of TFC 2006. You can also head on over to the youth website to get more information.
Encourage your young people to participate in this great program that encourages them to use their “talents for Christ.”
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Rock-Solid Kids
by Larry Fowler
Reviewed by Bob Fields
This book is well written in such a manner that it will excite you once again for children’s ministry regardless of your age or stage in life. The author does a masterful job of sharing the whys, hows, and whens of children’s ministry
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by Eileen Fields
It wasn’t long ago I was sitting on our couch surrounded by three of our grandchildren as I read to them from a story book. After I finished the story, our grandson, Noah, asked if he could read it to us as I held the book. He did very well and I was impressed. Then his older sister said, “He has it memorized!” He’d heard the story so many times and had progressed enough in his reading skills that he could read the whole book without any mistakes.
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by Bob Fields
As we quickly approach Christmas 2005, many Christians will get caught up in the Christmas spirit of gift-giving. Many of us have already been ask the question, “What do you want for Christmas?” When I was a child, I could answer that question rather quickly. Now as an “older” adult, that question is much more difficult to answer. The reason it is so difficult to answer is because I have so much! I suppose the spiritual answer should be, “God has given me so much.” I struggle with that response because I’m convinced that too much of what I have is because I bought it for myself rather than God giving it to me. I can rationalize that God provided the means for me to get those things, but I’m more convinced than ever that some of what I have is simply because I wanted it or I wanted more.
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