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Next ABF Class (April 
we will have a little quiz. Here’s the subject matter, missionaries and where they serve and a little about them. So do you research and dig deep in your memories for some interesting facts (well fact or maybe some vague memories you can recall). What I’ll do is post a little factoid about a missionary every day or so with a link to the CIA website. (the best, most imformative country fact and info site going).
What’s this about? It’s an idea in my ABF teachers manual and it will fit with the next few lessons. How to reach other cultures for Christ. We’ll talk about different ways or approaches needed to reach them.
Stay tuned…
First missionaries, an easy one-the Englands. Second one is a mystery, you’ll have to guess who it is by the facts and hints.
We need to make a game plan (pun intended) this Sunday for our movie night. We need to consider the following.
- Who from our class will be there?
- Who will MC?
- What kinds of treats will we have?
- Are we ready to deal with the counseling? if necessary.
What we do know:
- It’s at 7 PM
- It’s Friday April 20
- It’s going to be in the auditorium on the large screen
- It’s a great movie
- I’m gonna have a good time!
- I’ll buy the movie
- It’s for all ages and we will direct our focus towards the youth.
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Dear Whitesells,
You probably recieved a package yesterday with a rambling note (mine). Our ABF (Sunday School) class has goals this year that include projects to edify others. One of our projects is to show the movie Facing Giants to the youth. We also wanted to do something for you so we decided to put a Movie Night in a Box. We hope you will enjoy the package (and forgive us all the sugar we sent you). We pray for you often and miss you.
Please feel free to visit our class Blog abf30to44.wordpress.com
ABF Class
Facing the Giants, popcorn, candy and cards for the Whitesell Family is our project for this week. Our girls are going to make cards and we will find a card to send with the care package. So feel free to have your kids make or buy cards for Warren, Karen and the kids and don’t forget your own. I have also talked to Jill and Pastor and they will be sending cards along with our class cards.
This is a cool project that I cannot wait to complete. We need to decide Sunday on how to package it. We could send it box within a box and tell them to only open it when it’s Friday night and they have time for a family night or we could let them just open the box and plan the evening themselves. Either way it’ll be fun to complete this project. I would also like to take a digital picture of our class with our kids so we could include the picture with the package. We can do this after church this Sunday. Then I can just go to Walgreen’s to print it out before we send the care package.
If anyone has more ideas to go along with what we have so far please feel free to add the ideas to the blog. Remember you can never have enough candy or popcorn (a kids point of view) to go with a movie.
I had little hope for this movie when it first started, but I stuck with it and what a blessing! Facing the Giants is a heart warming film with a powerful message of how to deal with adversity and disappointments.
Although the film becomes predictable it’s forgivable because it’s like a flower that unfolds in stop action photography. You can have a good idea what it going to look like but you’re still in awe of the flower’s beauty.
The film is great because it doesn’t come across as preachy. The message isn’t preached in a monologue it’s acted out many times in a very emotional way. I really came to identify with the Coach Grant Taylor he takes some really hard blows and with God’s direction and help he bounces back. I was struck by the scenes when he tells his wife that he’s the reason they cannot have children. What makes this even more painful for him is that he’s having a losing season and learns of a secret meeting to replace him as coach. A double body blow to any man- as a man in the bedroom and his career. How he deals with this crisis is the beauty of the movie. Everything else that happens is the result of his decision that he makes that morning.
I cannot spoil it anymore please see it.
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