Grab your friends and your life jackets and let’s go on a “River Rafting Adventure.” This year’s Vacation Bible School is sure to appeal to all ages of students as they follow Sammy and Bobby down the river. Following the book of Acts and emphasizing prevenient grace, saving grace, and sanctifying grace, this VBS curriculum will point your students toward Jesus.

When is the best time to begin children’s quizzing? 

There is never a wrong time! Children’s Bible quizzing follows a six-year cycle. The quiz years run with most American school calendars (September through August).  

It was a beautiful fall day in Houston, Texas… one of those rare days that is just the right temperature — a day with little humidity, a light breeze, and cloudless. As part of a Department of Education grant, I was excited to spend my entire day with six classes of first graders and their teachers, modeling and sharing mathematics activities. As I opened the front door of Martin Elementary School, I was greeted by two first graders who ran down the hallway shouting, “The great BIG teacher is here.

Why should our churches prioritize summer camps?

For many years, my home church has engaged in men’s ministries. A core group of 10 to 20 men meet early on Fridays for food, fellowship, and fervent prayer.

It has been a blessing to see the doors that have opened and the people who have come together to help make this ministry a reality. I thought it would be helpful to provide some updates about the ministry and ways that you can be involved. At this stage, I have a direct contact for Disability Ministry with just over half of our districts on the USA/Canada Region. Praise God for a great response from district leadership!

Our core principles in the new NDI Bylaws remind us that, as Jesus’ disciples, we are called to journey together as members of the Body of Christ in the same way that Jesus gathered travelling companions around himself.