Welcome everybody! This is our first gathering for Children of the Day and we are incredibly blessed to have you along! If you’re just now hearing about it, we’d love for you to join us! You’ll find it most helpful to begin by reading this previous post that includes our approach, our summer Bible study schedule and many other specifics: (SSBS 2014 Info post) All you need to participate is the workbook entitled Children of the Day. We only officially “gather” here on the blog every two weeks because summers are so busy. On each of those 5 Tuesdays (starting today), you’ll find a video I’ve prepared for you with instructions for that day. I’ll also remind you to do the next 2 weeks of Bible study before our next gathering. View it personally if you are going solo or, if you’re joining in with others, with your small group. I’ll always put the bare bones of that gathering’s instructions in print in the post as well (as you’ll see below) in case you have any trouble viewing the video. Here’s your first one!
Basic written instructions in case you have trouble with the video:
Register for our summer Bible study by simply leaving a comment to this post per instructions below. Of course, you can take part without registering but you’ll get much more out of it if you fully participate. It not only increases accountability. It stirs up a sense of belonging and fellowship which is so important to us here in this blog community.
Here’s what we’d love for you to supply in your registration comment today: (Try to limit yourself to this information so it will be easy to read and count.)
1. Your NAME.
2. Your CITY.
3. Whether you’re going SOLO or in tandem with a small group. If you’re in a small group, share approximately how many are in your group and where you are planning to meet.
4. Share in a sentence or two why you could really stand to be in Bible study this summer. Maybe it’s that you’ve never been in one before. We would be elated! Or maybe it’s been a long time. If so, this is a great time and place to come back home to the heart of Jesus. Maybe you’re just hoping to get to know Christ a little better. Or, perhaps you’re interested in particular subject matter that appears on the pages of 1st or 2nd Thessalonians. On the other hand, maybe you especially need to be in the Scriptures because you have extenuating circumstances that could really challenge you this summer. What’s motivating you to get into the Scriptures with us this summer? There are no wrong answers!
5. BONUS question (optional): WHAT IS A QUIRK OF YOURS?? Come on, now! Tell us!
If you’re meeting with a small group, share your answers to questions 4 and 5.
I will pitch out a memory verse each week for anybody who wants to participate:
Week 1 Memory Verse:
1 Thessalonians 1:4 The NET Bible: We know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that He has chosen you.
Week 2 Memory Verse:
1 Thessalonians 2:8 The NET Bible: …with such affection for you we were happy to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.
Do WEEKS ONE AND TWO of your homework before our next gathering in two weeks! If you’re watching the OPTIONAL video teaching sessions, you will want to watch Session 1 this week before you start your homework and Session 2 before you start your second week of homework. Here is the link: Children Of The Day Sessions
Don’t feel pressured to go to the added expense. All you need to participate in the summer study is the workbook.
I am so honored to serve you and study with you this summer! Can’t wait to see your names and locations! So much love to you, Sisters! We joyfully embrace each one of you.
1. Michele Dudley
2. Dunn, NC
3. Solo
4. Have had to many life interuptions in the last year to complete a bible study..now is a good time!
5. I don’t eat food with a strange texture, ie slimy cabbage
1. Cindy
2. Galion, Ohio
3. Solo
4. Usually study on my own, but thought I’d ‘switch it up’ and enjoy the company & concentration of other women who love Jesus. Besides… so enjoy Beth Moore!!
5. I usually read five or six books, all at the same time.
1. Joyce
2.BG, KY
3. Small group meeting at Church sometimes
4. We are trying to do a Bible Study in a super busy committed summer.
Gina
Rosamond, Ca
With my sister 🙂
Love to study the word and I also love Beth’s studies!
To many quirks to pick just one.
Tami
Houston
Solo
Stay in scripture
1. Christine
2. Cork, Ireland
3. Solo
4. I started Beth’s bible study on James last summer, intending it to be my “summer study” but, I only finished it a couple of months ago! I loved studying and learning about an actual book of the bible, so I am excited about studying 1 & 2 Thessalonians (I’m pretty sure I have never studied these books of the bible because I can’t even think of what is in them) with Beth and having accountability to start it and complete it this summer!
5. My husband says one of my “quirks” is that I always clean my house before I go on holidays!!
1. Wendy
2. Manning, SC
3. Solo
4. Doing bible studies helps me to stay in God’s word. When life gets hard, dig deep into the word.
5. Sure I have many.
1. Becky
2. Las Cruces, NM
3. Solo
4. I was born into a Christian family, but feel that having a 5 year old has kept me very preoccupied. Now that she is getting bigger I want to prioritize more time to study God’s word.
5. My quirk is that I am very organized. If something is out of place I feel out of wack until I get things properly put away.
1. Melissa
2. Conway, AR
3. Solo
4. Need and desire to be in the scriptures, but struggle with making the time! I have young children and a very busy husband and demanding work schedule! I hope this being online will help me since I will be able to do it from home or while traveling!
5. I ask “what if…….” about everything! Drives my friends crazy!!
1. Tracee Brass
2. Riverside, Ca
3. Solo
4. I want to know God and his word more
5. I love school and learning.
1. ) Kim Kopp, Elizabeth Pergande, Heather Witter, April Dunagin, Dawn Rogers, Inge Hoogerhuis
2) Indianapolis, Indiana
3) A neighborhood Small Group
4) Looking forward to accountability to stay in The Word this summer and praying for God to move in and through each of us through this study.
5) A cool fact about our group: One of us just moved to America from Holland! 🙂
Nancy
Alliance, NE
group of 10-14 of us meeting downtown on Wed. mornings
I love this group of women to study God’s word with!
I organize everything…and when I’m done sometimes I redo it so it’s perfectly organized!
1. Leslie and Raye Lynn
2. Gideon, MO
3. small group
4. Raye Lynn saw this study in the current Lifeway monthly flier that comes out and we just LOVE Beth Moore and her bible studies. We also need more than just Sunday and Wednesday’s. This keeps us focused on the word of God.
5. Raye Lynn’s quirk, she has to type in an odd amount of seconds on the microwave.. like 53 seconds instead of 1 min! Leslie has a few… One is I like to have my dinner uninterrupted! I will not answer the phone or anything until I am finished eating. This drives my husband bananas but the way!
Leah
Coeur d’Alene, ID
One close friend
Planning to wage a war in the heavenlies for our marriages, children, children’s children including those at this time unborn and unknown! Please pray for healing in our marriages!!
Quirk…disorder stresses me to the max!
Marilyn
SE Michigan
Solo
Love God’s word!
I ‘talk’ with my hands & find it almost impossible to tell a ‘short’ story! 🙂
1. Bri
2. Atl Ga
3. Solo
4. Being in the word is a positive conviction for me and truly helps guide me in doing Gods work. When I’m not in the word I feel drawn away from his plan and good deeds. Temptation tends to win when I don’t have his word as a shield
1. Allison
2. Farmington, AR
3. Solo but may try to get group because just found out about it today June 3rd via Facebook
4. I want to get in and digest scriptures like with your other studies.
5. Not sure Picky eater
1. Gorgana Hyde
2. Huntsville, TX
3. Small group of about 20 meeting in each other’s homes, sharing in the responsibilities of facilitating each week.
4. Just need to be prodded to stay deep into the Word.
5. Loud in a small group, painfully shy in large groups.
1. Rachel & Audrey
2. Bellingham, WA
3. Small Group (mother & daughter)
4. To grow closer to God and to each other this summer!
1. Erin Arsulic
2. Roaming Shores, Ohio
3. Solo
4. Accountability is the reason I am joining this summer too!
5. I love paper studies not electronic…so I have to print it all out.
1. Judy
2. Ringgold, GA
3. Solo
4. I just can’t seem to get enough of God’s Word! I love Bible Study!
5. I like to iron, there’s nothing better than seeing a clean, crisp shirt hanging in the closet!
1. Ashley
2. Highspire, PA
3. Solo
4. I really wanted to do a bible study with FB friends online but the online time requirements were too much for me. I already feel as though I spend too much time on FB and I didn’t want to add any more. I love that this is a “go at your own pace, but still keep on track” sort of study. It’s perfect for summer.
5. I have misophonia. It’s less of a quirk and more of a curse lol! Small noises like ticking clocks, chewing or even breathing drive me bananas.
1) Amy Stier
2) Keller, TX
3) Group-About 7 ladies in my home
4) I have done James and Esther study and LOVED them. The girls in my group have never done a study, so I am excited for us to study together and grow in Christ as sisters in the Lord! 🙂
5) I am terrified of Birds.
1. Mollie
2. Lanexa, Virginia
3. winging it solo
4. bible study makes me calm down. i have lots going on in my life and it really makes me chill out.
5. im a crazy animal lover. I have 9 dogs, 6 cats, goats, rabbits, chickens, pigs,ducks, and cows.
1. Shyla
2. Patterson, CA
3. Solo
4. To spend more time with my best friend.
1. Christa
2. Aviano, Italy
3. Solo
4. I want to be involved in this study so that I can grow in God’s word.
5. I organize the clothes on the racks when I’m shopping. If something’s not where it belongs, I’ll move it to the correct rack.
1. Sarah
2. Houston, TX
3. Solo
4. I love to be in the Word. So why not this summer?
5. I am a hopeless neat freak but have a family;) I would love to have everything in its place, but that doesn’t always happen. Another quirk – I love my diet coke – but not in a can – a fountain drink
1. Rachael
2. Southern Mexico
3. Solo
4. It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to do a study with a group of ladies so I’m excited to be able to do it virtually this summer!
5. I think I have a lot of quirks. But the first one that comes to mind is that I’m a slight germaphobe and if I have to use the same laundry basket for dirty and clean clothes I need to wash it after it’s emptied of the dirty clothes so that I can put the cleaned ones back in it after washing them. This induces lots of teasing from my family. 🙂
Solo
Madison, AL
Jeanne
Lenexa, KS
With my friend Monica
Needing to recenter my focus and get back IN THE WORD!!!
I’m a napkin freak…never can have too many…always asking for extras…you just never know how messy things can be! 🙂
Robin
Gainesville, GA
Solo
Palm Beach Gardens, Fla
Solo
Excited to be a part of this study… My small group dismisses for summer.
1. Cindi
2. Eugene, OR
3. Solo
4. For accountability in all areas of life!
5. I cannot stay in my pj’s all day – EVER!
Sarah Fisher
Turlock, CA
Solo
I seem to need help to get deep into God’s Word. I’ve just started Bible Studies, just finishing the first with Beth Moore and want more of this kind.
I hate the word schedule, it turns into a cage. I work hard to keep mine from ever being tight and manage with routines instead.
1. Cissy
2. Rutledge, GA
3. Solo
4. I moved 3 yrs. ago from the place I was born and grew up at. Very involed with my lady’s ministry. In other words I loved my group of “GEMS” girlfriends. Well when I moved I did not find a new home church up until recently. So I have so missed bible study with “my” girls!!
5. I eat sliced American cheese on my chocolate chip cookies:)
1. TAMMY VICTOR
2. MERRYVILLE, LA
3. SMALL GROUP. THERE ARE 5 OF US LADIES. IT’S MY DAUGHTER IN LAW, HER MOM, SISTER AND SISTER IN LAWS GETTING TOGETHER EVERY SUNDAY BEFORE SUNDAY DINNER.
4. I NEED TO BE QUIET MORE, BE STILL… SO I’M PRAYING THIS WILL SLOW ME DOWN. WE’RE GOING TO HOLD EACH OTHER ACCOUNTABLE!
5. MY QUIRK? I LOVE POST IT NOTES, HIGHLIGHTERS AND LISTS! OH WAIT…THAT WAS THREE!
1. Name – Tabitha
2. CITY – Raleigh (NC)
3. Going it solo unless I get a group together.
4. Why – I need to be in the Word. I need a Bible study. I’m kinda on the desperate side there.
5. BONUS question (optional): WHAT IS A QUIRK OF YOURS?? I have a wicked sense of humor, and I can make myself laugh. I will dissolve into hysterics because I think something is funny. Can be a little weird when I’m laughing to myself and no one knows why…
1. Kyra
2. Grand Rapids, MI
3. Solo
4. It’s been a while since I’ve done one of Beth’s studies. I love her and I NEED to be in God’s word again.
5. I’ll go back and check to make sure I have unplugged my hair straightener, even if I’m sure I did!
1) Amber
2) Bellevue, NE
3) SOLO
4) I find that my hunger for God grows when I am in an intentional bible study. It brings a peace to my soul. This is my first Solo study. I have done 4 other Beth Moore studies with my close friends and we plan on re-grouping after the summer, but I couldn’t wait that long!
5) I am a coffee connoisseur, but every now and then I still enjoy my morning cup with coffee-mate’s Samoas creamer!
1. Melissa
2. Middleton, tn
3. Solo
4. I miss doing my Tuesday morning Bibles studies
5. OCD on organization
1. Patsy
2. Rainsville, Alabama
3. Solo
4. It’s been too long since I’ve attended a Beth Moore study. I am eager to plow into The Word and uncover buried treasure hidden in the verses of I and II Thessalonians (currently unfamiliar territory!!!)
5. I tend to overprepare
Diane
Wilton, CT
going solo
I want to be in Bible study because I want to experience “Children of the Day” before I lead a small group this fall! I need the accountability as well.
1. Tracy
2. Riner, Va.
3. Solo
4. I have done several Beth Moore studies and I need to do this one for the summer, because Beth truly touches my heart with her studies. I have a health problem and every time I do a study, she always lifts me up and gives me hope that our loving God never leaves us no matter what we are going through. I also have learned so,so much of the bible through Beth. I can see a change in my thoughts and how I am able to deal with things.
5. Wanting to knit all the time. 🙂
1. Shannon Heywood
2. Peoria Illinois
3. solo
4. It has been many years since I did a bible study. I have fallen away somewhat from God and I am so wanting to be close again.
Ann
Mississippi
Participating with a small group of sweet ladies online
I need this study because I want to strengthen my walk with God and connect with other believers cause women need this kinda stuff in this world we live in. The enemy is alive and well unfortunately and we need all the amo we can get!
Quirks- Coke Zero. Time with God first thing and last thing of the day. Coke Zero, No salad dressing on my salads and COke Zero.:)
1. Anita Russell
2. Brandon, MS
3. solo
4. Unable to attend a bible study because of work and kids, so very excited to participate online!!!
5. I love office supply stores! I can spend hours walking down the aisles of Office Depot. I have every color of pen, highlighter, sharpie, file folder, sticky pad, etc that they make! And yet my desk is in complete disarray all of the time. It is organized chaos, but it is very colorful!!
Marti, loganville ga
I am doing the study with a group. But we are not meeting. We are watching the Video on our own
And then posting on a Facebook message our thoughts. So it’s a Facebook message group!
The reason I am doing the summer study is to stay in Gods word. I have 3 young girls and this gives me some mom and God time:)
A quirk of mine is to always eat with a napkin to wipe my face or my child’s face!
1) Heather
2) Nashville, TN
3) Solo
4) Looking for a fresh word from The Lord this summer. A renewal.
5) I can’t drink milk out of a white glass. It has to either be clear or a color. 🙂
1.Janae Krum
2.Riverside, PA
3.SOLO
4.Coming through a very difficult season personally and with family. NEED the word and the online fellowship.
5.A quirk of mine would be that I would always rather be the unnoticed person in the room.
1. Paula
2. OKC, OK
3. We are studying as a group of 5 ladies total meeting during our lunch hours at work.
4. My discipleship partner and I planned to do the summer study in 2013 and were not able to complete it because of extenuating circumstances so, we both are thankful to be able to participate in COTD with a group this summer.
5. I prefer riding in the backseat of the car, no matter who’s driving! A true backseat driver!