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.Â
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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.)
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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):Â 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.
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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.Â
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.Â
Palatine, Illinois
Solo but trying to pull together a small group
Did Psalms of Ascent last summer and decided that I love me some Beth Moore bible study in the summertime!!
I never stop moving my fingers and toes…I even twirl the corners of my pillows as I fall asleep!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/LightUntoMyPath/
This is the Facebook page where my group will be keeping up and sharing from your study! Thank you Beth Moore and everyone who makes this possible! God Bless you!
1. Tracie Canada
2. Sheridan, Arkansas
3. My daughter and I.
4. I want to make Jesus my focus instead of this world.
5. Quirk: my living room and kitchen not tidy.
1. Kelly
2. Wichita KS
3 . With a friend
4. Want a deeper faith and closer relationship with God
5. I hate a mess…no really I can’t leave my office at work if everything is not done. And I have got to stop twirling my hair like I am 5!
Going solo–Need to spend more time in the word. Quirk: I can sing the entire score of many Broadway musicals–Music man, West Side Story, Oklahoma.
Need some deep Bible study!
1. Lyndsey
2. Pennsburg, PA
3. Solo
4. Desperate for Him, and His Word.
5. When I get tickled, or happy about something, sometimes I “clap” my feet. Haha, it started one time, when I was watching tv and something was really funny, but I had my hands full, so I clapped my feet instead. It stuck 🙂
1. Becky
2. Waco, TX
3. Solo
4. I need the discipline of a formal study.
1. Jeanie
2. Clermont, FL
3. Solo
4. Just wanting to do a Bible study over the summer.
5. I am a note taker and an avid journaler.
1. Heather
2. Gloucester, VA
3. Doing the study with WomensBibleCafe.com in a weekly small group.
4. I had a baby last 8 months ago and have 3 older children who have kept me zooming this past year. I am so excited about the chance to refresh my spirit with God’s Word this summer!! I need it!
5. I have to drink a cup of decaf tea before bed. Have to. Can’t sleep without it even if it’s super late and I only get a sip or two before I go to sleep.
Hi, Heather. I going through all the comments, can not remember if I posted.
1. Stacie Searcy
2. Boulder, Colorado
3. Hopefully doing it with a high school youth group called Kainos. This youth group is after the heart of God! They live for the kingdom.
4. I love bible studies. I live for JESUS, kindgom living, & a worshiper of God. I’m his beloved.
5. I’m a blended family godly wife trying to raise kids to love God in an environment where God doesn’t exist in their other household. Blessed and loved by the one true king.
1. Debra
2. Mira Loma, CA
3. Small group of two
4. I’m ready for a deep study of God’s Word
5. I have a hard time making decisions. Even trying to decide on a quirk is hard!
1. Tammy
2. Rhinelander, WI
3 Solo
4.Love being in a bible study. Need more time with God.
1.Becky Brolsma
2.Blaine, MN
3. Solo
4. I just love being in God’s Word & hearing Him speak to me through it.
1. Sarah Pomerleau
2. Lewiston, Maine
3. SOLO
4. I am thirsty for God’s Word… ready for God to continue a pruning in me He has begun. Rain Down on me Word of God!
5. A Quirk of mine: I have a very difficult time eating dessert before a meal. I have to have something “meal-ish” before I will partake of dessert.
1. Heather Nunn
2. Nashville, TN
3. Small Group…. Long distance by phone weekly on Tuesdays
4. It’s been a while since I’ve studied through books of the Bible together with a group go women and I’m so looking forward to it!
5. Quirk: I don’t know… There are so many… Lol!
Hampton, VA
Started a facebook group with a couple friends to do the study together.
Very excited to study Thessalonians. I’ve read it, but never studied it in depth. And, I am a Beth Moore Bible study junkie 🙂
1) Beth Turner
2) Wynnewood, OK
3) Solo
4) I enjoy all of the books of Paul, but I really want to dig into Thessalonians and see what God reveals to me in this teaching.
5) I have so many food quirks that I can’t pick just one, but a quirk of mine at bedtime is I have to use a towel for my pillow (learned that from a Dr. ), and my blanket has to be just in a certain position on my body or I can’t fall asleep.
1. Ella
2. Baxley, Ga
3. Solo
4. Just can’t get enough Bible Study. I learn so much and realize at the end of each one that I am hungry for more.
5. I drink out of the same coffee cup every morning.
Mindy Seekford
Shreveport, La
Going solo.
I’m really interested in the part of the two books that talk
about the last days.
Quirk: hmm… My eyebrows have to look just right.
constantly plucking them and messing with them:)
Jan from central florida, I am going solo, I haven’t participated in a bible study in a year, I have difficult time staying with bible studies. First time involved on-line. Having trouble finding a quirk I’m willing to share, lol.
1. Beth
2. Biddeford, ME
3. Solo but feeling prompted to see if a fellow sister may want to take part because its available
4. To become more disciplined in getting into the Word, and learning what God’s promises are to me.
5. Have to have matching undergarments
1. Jessica
2. Meriden, CT
3. SOLO
4. I want Jesus and His Joy!
5. I repeat stories or funny anecdotes to friends and family. My husband smiles at me a certain way when I do it! It’s hilarious because I don’t realize it until I’m just about finished telling it!
1. Cheryl
2. Brisbane
3. Solo
4. Love Beth’s bible studies and it’s been about a year since I’ve done one – am very excited!
5. I can only eat my cereal warmed up in microwave!
1. Joy
2. Houston , TX
3. Small Group (Atascocita/Summerwood Girls)
4. I haven’t done a bible study in a long time and I think it will really help me prepare before I leave for college this fall.
5. I am a perfectionist! Whenever I take notes and mess up I can’t just scratch it and keep going. I have to start all over again otherwise it drives me crazy.
1. Donna
2. Katy, TX
3. Solo
4. Loved the Esther and James studies and I was so excited about this new one and the opportunity to actually do it with Beth!
5. The thermostats in the house AND the car have to be on an even number or a “5”. ???
I think this got posted under the wrong blog entry, somehow, so I’m trying again…
So excited!! Answers to questions 1-5:
1. Ginger Johnson
2. Boaz, Alabama
3. I am doing this solo!
4. My reason for doing this Bible study…I am coming through a difficult circumstance in my life. It has caused much sorrow and grief, but as God is faithful, He has deepened my thirst and desire for Himself. I can’t seem to get enough!! Even today, I saw His hand at work in my life, and it drives me to worship Him and to “know Him”!!! I could go on and on… I am also a pastor’s wife, and have a deep burden for my ladies at church. My prayer is that this unquenchable thirst for God’s Word will spill over to them!!!
5. My quirk…I can’t, absolutely canNOT change the color pen I write with in my Bible studies. If I start in black, the entire book must be written in black!! Not great with change, ladies!!!
Sheila
Mount Juliet, TN
Solo
Accountability to be in the Word during the summer
If I eat something sweet, I always have to follow it up with a bite of something salty
1. Marissa
2. Roanoke, Virginia
3. Solo
4. To stay fresh
5. Wash dishes before I put them in the dishwasher
1. Kim
2. In wood, Wv
3. Solo
4. I am desperate to draw closer to God
5. I have to have music on to do ANYTHING, or else I get nothing done.
1. Lea
2. Fort Mill, SC
3. Solo
4. I’ve gotten away from daily Bible study, hoping this will help get me back on track.
5. The toothpaste always has to be squeezed from the bottom and flattened completely out.
1. Holly
2. Parrish, FL
3. Small group via the internet (the rest of my group is back in my home town in Pennsylvania! I love that we can do this long distance! I have so missed them!)
4. I need to be more intentional about my time in the Word; I need a better game plan.
5. I have “Holly-isms.” (words and phrases that I use out of context accidentally… it can be awkward, humorous, and/or embarrassing and happens more frequently than I care to admit.
Rachell
Hugo, Ok
Solo
In the middle of a major life change and need stability only God’s word can provide and I pray this Beth Moore study will keep me focused and rooted in word.
Quirk about me?….I hold my ear to fall asleep.
Tamara
Eugene
Solo
I’ve just moved to pacific NW & never have studied Thessalonians
I can’t stand windshield wipers going on a dry windshield.
1. Sharon
2. Beavercreek, Ohio
3. Solo
4. Doing a study that I’m not the facilitator of so I can concentrate on the Word.
5. Quirk, love Dr Who!!!!
1. Kelly
2. Starr,SC
3. Solo sort of… Friend is also doing solo, we will try to get together
4. I am a teacher both by profession and in ministry at church to high school girls. I need replenishing! And accountability.
5. I must take notes to learn and pay attention and I cannot teach without a pencil or pen in my hand.
1. Miriam
2. Albuquerque, NM
3. Solo
4. I just want to keep growing in intimacy with the Lord and knowledge of His Word. This study will help me to continue to be in the Word this summer.
5. I like discovering new words. Today, I learned about couscous and ballyhoo. And I’m obsessed with Toothless from “How to Train Your Dragon.”
1. Pam
2. San Marino,California
3. There are 20 in my group but I am the only one doing the blog portion.
4. I love my small group but I have a new Mastiff puppy that’s keeping me home most of the summer. I’ve joined the summer group before and love the Sisterhood.
5. I unintentionally say funny things my husband calls “Pammies”.
Sarah
Appleton, WI
Super small group! Two people. 🙂
I don’t want to get lazy with my Bible study this summer with everything else being unstructured.
Quirk: I looooove my chocolate-covered raisins and my popcorn in my mouth at the same time. Sweet and salty awesomeness!
1 – Suzanne
2 – Franklin
3 – Doing study with Church group
4 – I want to continue with a bible study during the summer months while my normal study is off for vacation/revivals.
5 – I can be OCD about wearing earrings, I even wear them to the beach
1. Janie Hoskins
2. Fort Worth, TX
3. Small Group of about 8 meeting in my home
4. I need to be in study this summer because I need accountability.
5. I hate to loose things!!!
Lebanon ohio
Feel so blessed to actually had time to read this post and join in. I have cared for my two parents for 3 years before they went to be with the Lord but my time is still consumed in disposing of property of 67 years of marriage and settling the estate. This thrills me to be in his word this summer because our area churches break for the summer.
I HAVE to have laundry folded a certain way, very particular my towels!
1. Mona
2. Katy, TX
3. Solo
4. I always start strong with summer bible studies but rarely finish. This summer will be different!
5. I love to eat pickles and lemons! But….I am NOT pregnant!
Sherry
Mill Creek, Indiana
Solo
I love God’s Word and always look Forward to your new studies.
I love Hebrew inscription band rings! I wear I am my beloved and He is mine.
1.YOHANA
2.Irmo,SC
3.Solo
4.Had to stop going to my Tuesday morning Bible study because I started working and I have been praying for a Bible study I could go to. Prayer Answered
5.I am a perfectionist, but I’m working on it.
1 – Penny
2 – Shelby, NC
3 – Solo
4 – To stay in God’s Word
5 – I enjoy silence.
1.Beth
2.Suwanee, Ga.
3.solo
4.I want to build a stronger relationship with God.
5.i’m OCD
1) Kris
2) Denver, CO
3) Doing study via skype/facetime with sister and mom out of state
4) Most of my Bible Studies are solo, so will be nice to add some dissuccion
5) when I cook i wash my hands after almost every food i touch (needless to say extremely dry hands! ….. but clean) 🙂
1. Ann
2. Edmonton AB
3. Solo
Bridget Beaver solo but hopefully my daughter will join. Yes I need a bible study to help me put God first. It has been a hard year but also a year full of blessings I want to remember my blessings and not concentrate on the struggle