"But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."

Our Sunday School opens on Sunday, 17 January in three brand new class rooms! We look forward to see the children and teachers enjoying these excellent facilities. As a church we ask this question, though - Will parents be faithful during 2010 in bringing their children to church to be trained up in the the Bible truths and to learn how to love, serve and follow Jesus Christ their Saviour. Are families still willing to choose to serve God - as a family?

We bring our children to church, because we as a family choose to serve God!

Joshua 24: 14 – 18: "Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness… . But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served… or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living.
But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." Then the people answered, "Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods! It was the LORD our God himself who brought us and our fathers up out of Egypt, from that land of slavery, and performed those great signs before our eyes. He protected us on our entire journey and among all the nations through which we travelled. And the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites, who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because he is our God."

Children copy what takes place around them. This is how they learn to speak, walk, behave and believe in God! If we, like Joshua, choose to serve the Lord, we effectively make it possible for our children to come to God. If we choose any thing else to be more important to us than the Lord and serving and worshipping him, or fail to bring them to church, we are practically preventing them from coming to Jesus, their Saviour.

Parents choose, through their example, to make it possible for their children to love Jesus, or to sideline him!