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. Robin Clark
2. San Antonio, TX
3. Solo
4. Just love Beth’s studies, God speaks to me through her
5. The covers on the bed have to hang down the sides at exactly the same length and be perfectly straight and smooth before I can go to sleep.
1. Traci
2. Columbus, IN
3. Solo
4. It’s been a long time since I have been able to attend a bible study and I miss it.
5. I don’t know my quirks because they all seem normal and reasonable to me. 🙂
# 1–Chara Larkin
# 2–Kingsport, TN
# 3–solo (but virtually have discussion (Facebook group for study meeting together in Texas))
# 4–I don’t have the passion for the Lord that I used to have. I’d like to get some of that back (consistently). I may have spurts of passion here and there, but hopefully this will help me overall in my walk. I also thought our church wasn’t doing Summer studies when I signed up, but I’m still doing it.
# 5–I talk fast when I’m passionate about something.
Jo Wilson
Manakara, Madagascar
Skyping with about 7 or 8 other women from the USA.
I have only one other American woman in this town that I know. She is Baptist missionary and I am with the Assemblies of God. I do Bible studies all the time but mostly alone and we just want the fellowship and of course to always grow closer to God.
My quirk is that nobody in Manakara knows how to make a good hamburger.
1. Ronnie
2. Ostrander, OH
3. Solo
4. Accountability
5. I must feel my hubby’s eyebrows before I get my good night kiss and go to sleep every night.
Pat
Lake Forest, California
Going solo because I love the Word and studying with Beth
1. Carolyn
2. The Woodlands, TX
3. Small group of about 15 via Facebook because we’re spread out across the country
4. Wanted to do a Beth Moore study and it was a great opportunity to study God’s Word with my incredible adult daughters and some other amazing relatives and friends.
5. I’m a super rule-follower and expect everyone to follow the rules–unless I decide they need to be broken (usually for efficiency reasons, although sometimes just because). I can be a little bit of a rebel at heart.
1. Danielle Hudspeth
2. Conway, AR
3. Small group- Blue Sail Coffee Shop and home
4. My heart needs revival. I am a ministers wife at a new church plant and long to love The Lord and love people more fully.
5. I have to have sweet tea for lunch every day!
Heidi
Reston, VA
Group Study
1. Shelley
2. Madisonville, KY
3. Solo
4. I need to be in serious Bible Study this summer due to some coming life changes and I need the structure to stay close to God and His Word. Unfortunately, the ladies at my church don’t want anything with homework this summer but I love homework.
5. I guess my quirk is that I love to do Bible study homework 🙂
St. Louis and I will be going Solo 🙁
I’m excited for this study because I have been struggling “finding the time” to really devote and I am praying this will keep me accountable!
Quirck..I’m a vegetarian that’s not really fond of veggies 🙂
Solo
The Summer Siesta study is like my own personal retreat each summer and I love it so much and look forward all year to it!
I won’t even go to the mailbox without my eye liner and mascara on!
Suzy Cates
Roseburg OR
Solo
Striving to be one better with the Word of God.
Sunflower seeds in my applesauce
I’m going solo.
I need this study to continue the fight against strongholds in my life.
God has used Beth Moore studies over the last several years to speak to me and reel my wayward heart back to him.
Wilmington, NC
Solo
I need a fresh Summer Breeze to wash across my heart from The Holy Spirit
Hhmm..a quirk? Picking one is hard. I dont like for my stomach to be touched.
1. Vanessa Marman
2. Murrieta, ca
3. Small group (my mom and I)
4. When I heard Beth had written a Thessalonians study, I had to do it. Thessalonians are very special books to me and my walk with God. God used these books many times during some very difficult places in my life. I really felt like God made this study for me. I know He has something to say to me. I’m pretty excited for the Spirit to make the word afresh!!!
5. I don’t eat it often but I can eat A1 steak sauce on anything. Sometimes when I’m dieting, I pour A1 on a bowl of green beans and eat it as a snack.
Amanda
Dothan, AL
Small group (3)
Lunch break at work
I have never done one before.
1. Susan
2. Yakima, Washington
3. Doing study with my daughter, who just got engaged 🙂
4. Need all of Jesus I can get – my husband starts treatment for cancer next Monday.
5. I love airports – so many people – so many stories…
1. Sheila
2. Deltona, FL
3. Solo
4. I just really need to get into the Word more deeply this summer. Can’t wait!
1) Taylor
2) San Francisco, CA
3) Small Group
4) My life has been so busy lately that i find myself not leaving time for God. Getting into a study is gonna force me to carve out that time I can spend with Him
5) I am absolutely contradictory in everything that I like. There is no rhyme or reason!
Pam
Dublin, VA
In a group, we met at my house last night and will meet at various locations. We also set up a private group on Facebook so when we are on vacation or not able to attend we can still communicate with one another.
I need the discipline. Just came through a very busy season of life and I am struggling with a lack of hunger for the Word.
I cannot pass up a bargain on pens/pencils/markers/Post-It notes/journals. Have to have em.
It’s been a while, I need the Bible study. My daughter is also doing it in another state, we will be able to discuss it.
Getting started a bit late, but excited none the less!!
1. Shanon Troyer
2. Albany, OR
3. Solo
4. Our bible study at church takes a break for the summer, so I know this will keep me accountable and in the Word!
5. I read a few of the other comments and I feel like I can share so many of their quirks, but my favorite I have read so far and that I DEFINITELY have, is making lists. I even make a list of my lists, and on a list I often write, start new list 🙂
Blessings to everyone, can’t wait to see where God leads us over the summer!
Jodi
Ventura CA
Going solo
Staying in God’s word & I’ve never done a study on Thess.
1. Colette
2. Mesa, AZ
3. Solo
4. I love to see how God talks to me through your Bible Studies! He always amazes me how He knows EXACTLY what is going on right at the moment! 😉 He is good!
5. I am NOT proud of my clutter quirk!! But I know where everything is even amongst the clutter!
🙂
1. Martha
2. Cape Girardeau, MO
3. Solo
4. To know Jesus more
1. Deborah
2. Bradenton, Florida
3. Solo
4. God’s Word is life and how I do life. The LORD speaks volumes to me through HIS WORD. Going to Thessaloniki, Greece in July for mission trip with Operation Joshua to distribute NEW TESTAMENTS, the very area/people Paul wrote to in this study! How cool is that!
5. Hate TV.
1. Diane and Brianna Watt
2. Harker Heights, TX
3. Small group meeting in the Watt living room
4. We are in the Word because I’ve made it my personal goal to believe God for everything…but need to know God’s Word to do so 🙂
5. I’m a huge safety nut, and it drives all my employees crazy. I nag them about wearing harnesses on the lift, wearing helmets, not driving (or walking) in any type of inclement weather. It’s pretty funny because I am the female lead supervisor over a bunch of guys and they would break every safety violation if they could. But my imagination is vivid and I insist they be safe…Every time. That’s my quirk! 🙂
1. Sherrie
2. Centerville, SD
3. Solo
4. We do Beth Moore Study’s during the year and take the Summer off I need my Bible Study.
5.I love chocolate…if I do not have any I open a can of chocolate frosting! And yes when I was pregnant I ate the whole can! Thank God I only have 2 kids!
1. Ashley D.
2. Huffman, Texas
3. Solo
4. I am in a season where almost everything in my life has changed….big changes…career, newly married, full time stepmom, new town. Feel in a whirlwind and thirsty for His Word.
5. When I am highlighting anything the highlight lines have to all be even. I can’t highlight one sentence and then the sentence below be highlighted and go longer then the one on top…they have to meet at the end. 🙂
1. April
2. Jefferson, GA
3. Solo
4. I love Beth Moore’s studies and I am wanting to be covered in the Word this summer in every way possible!!
5. I am almost too quirky to name just one thing that I am known for!
1. Peggy
2. Skellytown, TX
3. Solo
4. Started Children of the Day on my own, found out about Summer Siesta, wanted to join in.
5. I love to feed people….everything I do seems to revolve around food.
1. Amy
2. Cincinnati, OH
3. Solo
4. I do not do well doing my quiet time w/o a designated study to do with it…especially during the summer when my kids are home. I just want to be in the Word!
5. Quirk: I have REAL “issues” with things that are clumped. (mushroom, massive amounts of bees on a hive, large “clumps” of birds in a field or tree, clumps of weird flowers, etc). It makes me sick to my stomach to look at…similar to nails on a chalkboard for some people. People who know this about me will send me pics of things they see when they are out and ask, “does this bother you??” 🙂
Siesta summer Children of the Day:
Misti Lytle
Atoka OK meeting in a small group on Sunday
Quirk’s I have so many! I also order a coney with no meat and a Coke with no ice. lol now that always gets a did I hear you correct ma’am.
1. Belinda
2. Thomasville, NC
3. Solo
4. I am going through a trial in my personal life and I need all of God I can get! I usually lead these studies at my church but sometimes I need to be “led” and fed! I am at a time in my life when I know I need some manna from above and I know this is a place I can come to to get that!
5. I tend to figure things and people out. I always try to figure out why people do what they do and try to use my view of that to “help” them. Sometimes that gets me in trouble! I also twirl my hair when I am thinking…..been twirling A LOT lately!
Neena
Bowling Green, KY
Solo
To guide me throughout the summer
1. Mary Agnes Edwards
2. Boerne, Texas
3. Solo
4. I have done all of your studies, and I wanted to do this one, but did not have a group. I also just lost my best friend in Boerne to cancer.
5. Two quirks-I have to have two cups of coffee when I get up to do my devotion. I have lots of nervous energy then I crash at night because I am so tired.
1. January Converse
2. Houston, TX
3. Solo
4. Need to think God’s thoughts, not my own anxiety-ridden ones, and I love to learn (among several other reasons)
5. I am a crazy cat lady – right now my husband set my limit at 2 (part Bobcat Jim Bob and Halle the “halleycat”) but my husband teases that when I’m old you’ll probably find me on “hoarders” or some other tv show for all the cats I will have. Ha! Poor husband (I didn’t discover this passion until after marriage -lol)
Beth, I loved the line from day 1! “You may be the last person on earth looking for a spotlight, but if you’re a woman who pursues God and serves people in this carnal culture, SQUINT YOUR EYES IN THE SPOTLIGHT’S BRIGHTNESS.” Well said.
1. Leslie Hudson
2. Corvallis, OR
3. I am going solo!
4. Joining this summer study because God always does something amazing during summer Bible studies! Digging deeper is always the best part of my summers.
5. A quirk of mine – I love pens! Lots of colors and sizes and shapes. I have been known to keep my “special” pens at work in a special box so they don’t disappear!
1.Patricia Odum
2.Akron,Ohio
3.Solo
4.to be accountable and for women’s fellowship
5.Always on the go
Name: Maggie
city: Victoria BC Canada
doing solo with abit of connection with another who is doing it.
why: love Beth Moore studies! Always life impacting. And it gives me focus.
quirk: hmmmm . . . not sure
1. Toni
2. Fort Worth
3. might join up with my daughters and sister-in-law
4. My youngest is leaving the nest soon and I need to keep busy and studying God’s word is a good way to keep busy!.
5. Needing things to be as perfect as possible, always thinking of the what ifs.
1. Esther
2. Louisville, Kentucky
3. Solo
4. This is a difficult season in my life with my mother suffering dementia.
5. I stop at the same coffee shop 5 days a week at the same time and love to talk to people I encounter. You never know who needs a smile.
1. Melinda Williamson
2. San Diego CA
3. Small group not sure how many
4. For many reason as a military’ spouse getting ready to move again in jan it’s important for me to stay rooted in Gods word
5. I love peppermint taffy like by the truck loads!
1.Sharee
2. Norfolk, NE
3. Solo
4. I love studying the Word of God and have no group study this summer. In addition, our church will be doing the study in the fall and I’ll be one of the group leaders so I’d like to go through it once beforehand.
5. I love to make voices for one of my three dogs and have them “talk” to my kids to get them to do chores. 🙂
Julie
Carlsbad, CA
Small Group of eight – Daybreak Siestas – meeting in our Connection Pastor’s home.
I need to be in the Word – love the accountability, study and fellowship with these amazing women.
Quirk – I love to research completely random things.
1. Paola
2. Pinellas Park, Fl
3. Solo
4. It’s always a joy to study God’s word, the more the better. I need to recharge to back to school a teach my students about the beauty of our God.
5. I’m a little bossy, I think comes with the teaching responsibility, plus I like all things organized, even math homework! all lined up, graphs with ruler and on the grid! same at home all must be in place. Praying that I do it with kindness and compassion.
Cedarville, OH
Doing this with a friend
I cannot find anywhere on the site to register
My name is Shannon. I live in Virginia Beach. I am doing this bible study solo. I need personal revival to fulfill the calling on my life. I like all of my linens and bath towels to be white.