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.
101 Dartmoor Drive
Mitzi Cordle
Brandon, MS
Doing study with my husband, Robert
I love Beth’s studies & we are both excited about doing this one together! Desire to grow in His Word, to know Him better, & to Love Him more!
We humanize our dog, Moe, by expressing his thoughts & opinions for him.
1. Rene’ Pingel
2. Cape Girardeau, MO
3. Small Group – 3 ladies
4. Haven’t done a formal Bible Study with a group in several months. Really need this in my life.
5. Little OCD sometimes. My husband will put things in place, and I go behind him and move them.
Solo
I am a veteran of studies
I will be doing this study with my group in the
Fall and wanted to get a head start!
My quirk is that I need to make the bed every day before I can get any other work done, even if my husband is not out of it yet!
Melanie
Tuscumbia ,AL
Just me 🙂
I work every weekend 🙁 so I don’t get a lot of preaching/teaching. I am very busy with 4 children and need structured teaching. I love Beth Moore! I hunger for the word she teaches! Quirk: I drink tons of coffee everyday!
Love studying God’s Word with Beth!
1. Mary Jane Hogan
2. Greer, SC
3. Beginning solo to prepare to lead a well-seasoned home-based small group in this Sunday starting in July
4. I am sorry to say that I am much more successful to be in the word when I participate in an organized study within a group. And always know I am called to be in His Word.
5. My most obvious quirk is that I have food-touching rules.
1. Julie
2. Lynchburg, Va
3. With my daughter
4.i have done your Bible studies before and I love learning God’s word
1. Lauryn
2. Boynton Beach FL
3. Solo
4. Excited about the new study and needed a summer study!
I’m going Solo — just noticed your summer offering–have invited friends, though late, maybe they will join.
Love always to be in The Word & my Bible group may study COTD this Fall & Winter (we’ll take 17 weeks).
Quirk – favorite distraction pulling weeds and digging holes to plant flowers. 🙂
1. Shelly
2. South Carolina
3. Solo
4. Looking forward to Bible Study over the summer. Helps to keep in a routine and stay consistent with my prayer time.
5. One quirk is that my car has to be clean on the inside. No clutter, no trash and no eating in my car.
1. Pam
2. Greenwood, IN
3. Tandem with the Leaders from the Bible Studies we have at our Church in the Fall and Winter.
4. I always need the accountability. But most of all I love to study God’s Word.
5. A quirk: I take a lot of nutritional supplements. I wish there was a supplement to cure the problem of over-analyzing things.
1) Esther 2) jonesborough tn 3) group 4) encouragement. Right now I Feel like evil is winning (in world & personal surroundings) but KNOW God wins!! And He’s in total control. 5) say “actually” a lot (and so does my 2 yr old). Sleep w lot pillows.
1. Sherry
2. Marion, AR
3. Solo
4. I need a new bible study
5. I like to stay in my routine and I do not like change.
1. Cheryl
2. Peninsula, OH
3. Like Paul, Silas & Timothy we are a group of three.
4. Needing an in-dept Bible study to re-focus my life.
5. I prefer mustard to ketchup on french fries.
Mu daughter and I are doing the study. The cd’s were a Mother’s day gift from my husband! I’m excited to be studying the Word together with women from all over the world. It keeps me accountable to stay in the Word of God.
1.) Judy Rowland
2.) Louisville, KY
3.) Solo for now….hope to get a couple more ladies
4.) We finished up a study we were doing a few weeks ago and I feel lost without some in depth study to chew on in the mornings.
1. Elizabeth
2. Mesquite, Tx
3. Solo
4. Because my heart needs to heal.
Beth P. from Stillwater, OK. I will be in a very small group with just myself and one other beautiful woman! I am so in need of bible study this summer b/c of the season of life I’m in…I will be having my first child in Nov/Dec. Plus, I have also just been craving some deep study in the Word! I’m so excited!!!
I guess one of my quirks is that I do crazy yoga poses at home, at random moments and always want my husband to try them with me.
Looking forward to studying with everyone!
1. Kim
2. Pearland, TX
3. Solo (unless some of my Life Group ladies decide to join me)
4. Life has been especially challenging in all areas in recent months. I need that fresh touch from the Spirit. I need to be in the Scriptures and seeking God daily.
5. Learned a new quirk yesterday at the eye doctor – I’m an “incomplete blinker” (didn’t know there was such a thing). Result – dry eye syndrome. Who knew?
1. Jody
2. Waterloo, In
3. On my own, solo
4. I’ve been wanting to do a study, but don’t know how. This will be my first and I’m so excited.
5. Quirk.. I get obsessed with crafts and seeing. I need be always busy. Thankfully, my husband, is okay with it.
1. Beth
2. Ypsilanti, Michigan
3. Solo
4. Since I travel a lot in the summer, this is a great way to stay in the Word no matter where I am.
5. Quirks…I know I have many, but there isn’t anyone here for me to ask right now because for me, they are just a way of life. 🙂
Colleen
Cape Town South Africa
Solo
I will be facilitating this study for my group starting 16 July, so I thought I would get a head start and be extra well prepared. I am hoping to getting some extra insights and perspectives to share with them.
If I buy a new book I can’t stand letting anyone read it before I do.
Pittsburgh
I am so excited to be participating because my weekly Bible Study concludes in May and doesn’t pick up again until September. The accountability of a structured study has really changed my life because I am getting into the Scriptures daily.
My quirk is that I can’t go to sleep in an unmade bed, even if I make it and immediately unmake it to go to get in it!
1. Heather
2. Lancaster, Pa
3. Solo
4. Love Beth Moore Bible studies and need some structure to stay in the Word over the summer
5. all tops and dresses in the closet have to be hanging with the front of the shirt to the left of the closet 🙂
–Sarah King
–Little Rock, AR
–Solo for the moment, but reaching out to the women of my Sunday School class to see if they’d like to join me
–I have been extremely focused on my career for the past year, and I have reaped rewards, but I know that I need to devote more time to the lord.
–Beth’s quirk reminds me of one of my own. I don’t set anything on top of my bible. I am what Beth calls a ‘rabid reader’ and always have a stack of library books, but never set another book on top of it. It’s so silly and I have been telling myself for years that god knows my heart.
1. Doris
2.Wilton, NY
3. Solo
4. I lead Bible studies (mostly Beth’s!) every winter and I feel that God is directing me into personal study for myself this summer to refresh and renew. I need the time not to be responsible for someone else’s Spiritual life, but just for mine!
5. I love salad’s that I don’t make myself and I always like them best at room temperature-
1. Leah
2. Charlotte, NC
3. Solo
4. God’s Word is life to me. A day without Him is like a day without air to breathe.
5.I over analyse e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g.
1. Rhonda
2. Columbus, GA
3. Solo but will do this study in the Fall with a group of women at my church
4. To have meaningful time with the Lord in studying His word, and this helps me be accountable.
1. Mary Beth Edwards
2. Memphis, TN
3. SOLO
4. Not sure right now, but it will probably be clear by the end. It’s usually b/c the Lord wants to change something in me! (and He does!) 🙂
1. Jennifer
2. Raleigh, NC
3. Small Group
4. I joined this summer Bible Study because I wanted to dig deeper into his word. I am CRAVING it! And, I love the comradery of a small group. Women supporting each other is a beautiful gift!
5. A quirk? The dishes need to be cleanly rinsed before being placed into the dishwasher.
Donna
New Jersey
Solo
Simply seeking God!
1. Michelle
2. Blue Ridge, VA
3. With about 23 other women meeting weekly at church
4. Have never participated in a women’s bible study and felt led to join this one.
5. I have to sleep with two pillows – one for my head and the other between my legs. Also, I have a very specific way that I curl my hair in the morning that involves putting my head upside down in the shower!
Calhoun Community Church Ladies Samll Group – Calhou, GA
I suppose one of my quirks that drives my family (and friends) crazy is special ordering any time I eat out! I cant order without “having it my way”!! I cant order off the menu without changing something!
Love your studies!!!
1. Michelle
2. Germantown, MD
3. Solo- but daughter in law introduced me to this, so we will text about it
4. Missing a structured Bible Study and don’t think I have ever spent much time with Thessalonians so this will be great
5. Only ONE quirk?! I have over 300 pairs of earrings and sometimes change them during the day. Everything else in my dresser drawers may be upended, but my earrings are always well organized!
1. Katie
2. Oswego IL
3. Solo
4. I need a jump start. I’ve gotten a little lax with my Bible study
5. There is a perfect seat in any movie theater and I have to have it.
1. Darlene Tremblay
2. Turner, Me
3. Solo
4. Spiritual growth and love Beth’s Bible Studies
5. Can only sleep on left side of bed
Heidi Sosebee; Blairsville, Ga
Flying solo on this one
I just need and want to study His Word more
1. Jeannette
2. Land O Lakes, FL
3. Small group of 10, meeting at our church
4. Need homework to make me study, I have a hard time motivating myself.
5. I like to play with my food.
1. Yvonne
2. Louisville, KY
3. Small group – meeting place will change each week. We will meet in each other’s home.
4. I love doing summer Bible study. As a teacher, I have more time for deep Bible study in the summer. I do study the word during the school year, but relish the time I have to devote to His word in the summer.
5. Quirk – I MUST have my students papers in ABC order before I grade them. My co-workers and students just shake their heads at me.
1) Gail
2) Orlando, FL
3) Solo
4) Wanting to do this new bible study and my church is not currently do this one.
5) Everything has a place and it needs to be in it =)
Brenda
Granbury TX
Solo
Grow in understanding of God’s word. I have gone to Bible study for a few years but usually drop out before the end of the session.
1. Peggy
2. Orange City, IA
3. Solo, but in preparation for group leadership in the fall.
4. I need a study with the accountability of 5 scheduled days of homework, love Beth’s format and content.
5. I am a compulsive”to-do” list maker. In fact, if I accomplish a task not on the list I will frequently write it down just so I can cross it off.
1. Toni
2. Oak Ridge, TN
3. Both. My small group doesn’t start this study until end of June, but I have the book now and so I figure why not start now. We will meet at our church, our group is over 12.
4. This season of life is challenging with a 27 year marriage currently in separation, and discovering who I really am in Christ.
5. When I get home from grocery shopping, I immediately wash my hands before I put my food away.
1. Angela
2. Arkansas
3. Small group in a home
4. Spiritually dry
1. Tami
2. Columbus, Ohio
3. Solo
4. Accountability and to prevent laziness
5. My quirk is Salt on my Pizza….love it!!
1)Suzanne Bailey
2)Harrisville, RI
3)DUET with my sister
4)Just started dabbling in Biblical Greek, so this connection to the language and the country are just jumping out at me.
5)In a restaurant, I always fold my straw paper in thirds the long way and then tie the string like paper into a series of half-hitches.
1. Patricia
2. Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
3. With a small group meeting in different homes
4. I have done/led bible studies for years but this is
the first time I have done an organized one through the
summer. There have been some changes in my life this
year, some joyful, some heartbreaking and some just
challenging and I feel the need to dig deep into God’s
Word through the summer.
5. When I am agitated/annoyed I shake/bounce my foot.
Drives my husband crazy! 🙂
1.Amanda
2.Midland Texas
3. With my daughters, 15 and 13, as part of our Summer Homeschool Curriculum.
4. I Always have my phone in my hand…need to work on that :-/
Forgot to answer one question: We need to do family Bible study in THE WORST WAY. NEED NEED NEED.
1. Shannon
2. Greenville, SC
3. Solo
4. I need some Jesus in my life and some funny. Beth Moore usually brings both! I’ve done one other bible study of hers but watched many of her video clips online for inspiration. Love how she brings the bible to life!
5. I cannot sleep without having my hair over my ears. I have this crazy idea that a bug will crawl in my ear. (Thank you Star Trek movie scene from when I was a child. LOL!)