Dear All,

We had our first God & Family Class last Tuesday Night. It was great fun for all of us. Our class was led by the always entertaining Pastor Andy Lambert from the Mt Tabor UMC Clergy. We will meet again next week, 10/20/15, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm at Mt Tabor UMC in the 3rd floor library. Please enter through the church office and follow the signs. We will take the boys on to their den meetings after the God & Family Class. Please remind your scout to bring his God & Family book and his bible, if he has one.

You may remember from my earlier message that this series uses the parts of a pizza to explain God’s plan for strengthening families. We talked about the “Crust” (foundation) of our Pizza (family) last night.

This week’s homework is one of the following three options:

(1) Have your scout explain the mezuzah (door hanger) to your family. Talk about what is important in your family’s Christian beliefs.

(2) If your family doesn’t currently say a blessing before meals, this is a great time to begin. A blessing or grace shows the importance of our belief in God and Jesus Christ. If you don’t know a table grace, try this one: God, we thank you for this food. We thank you for Jesus Christ. We thank you for loving us. And we thank you for our families. Amen

(3) Do something fun together with your family this week. Play a board game, take a walk, take a hike together or something else fun.

Next week, Mt Tabor’s Children’s Minister, Susan Ewing, will be working with us as we get into the “sauce” of our pizza.

The scripture we will use is:

Ruth & Naomi – Ruth 1:1-18, 4:13-17

Baby Jesus is taken to the temple – Luke 2:21-24, 40

I will stand in again for Stacy Stevens with help from Carmen Bridges (thank you, Carmen).

See you next week.

Shannon