This summer, Adventures in Odyssey is calling kids across the country to serve their families, their communities, and their world, via their program A.C.T.S.!—A Call To Serve. Your kids can join thousands of kids across the country making a commitment to serve your family, your community and even the world!
This is the perfect opportunity for when the kids say "I'm Bored"
to plan a way for them to serve their community!
This is the perfect opportunity for when the kids say "I'm Bored"
to plan a way for them to serve their community!
This week's theme is Grow in your walk with God every day, while serving your world.
With summer on the downswing, it's time to gear up for school
and re-establish routines that get lost during summer.
and re-establish routines that get lost during summer.
For moms with kids in school, the most hectic months of the year are usually September and May. The end of the school year involves parties, playoffs, and final projects. The beginning of the year has moms and kids feeling overloaded with shopping trips, sign-ups, and new schedules. Establishing healthy, positive routines is a tough job. Too often, music lessons, sports practices, and after-school clubs can overshadow the routines that build family and healthy habits—both physically and spiritually.
One of the great new Adventures in Odyssey products released this year is 90 Devotions for Kids, aimed at kids 8 to 12. This soft-cover book draws you in with illustrations, puzzles, and kid-friendly applications. It also includes a daily Bible verse, daily challenges, words of encouragement from different AIO characters, and more. Even if your kids aren’t already Adventures in Odyssey fans, they’ll enjoy these daily devotionals, and get to know the Odyssey crew along the way.
This devotional, and the edition coming this fall (90 Devotions for Kids: Life Changing Values from the Book of Matthew) are great tools to help your kids put a regular pause in their day for Bible reading, prayer, and thoughts about God. If you start now—by the first day of school, you’ll already have a spiritual component scheduled into your kids’ routine. After that, everything else will hopefully just fall into line!
Book Excerpt:
Me Third = JoyToday’s Verse—1 Corinthians 10:24
We should not look out for our own interests.
Instead, we should look out for the interests of others.
Suppose Mom has left you and your brother the last two slices of pizza. Do you grab the bigger one and launch into a victory dance, or do you let your brother choose? Serving others means considering their interests ahead of our own.That can be a challenge, can’t it?
A good motto for Christian living is “Me Third.” Naturally, God comes first. Second, we should focus on the needs of other people, just as the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 10:24 and Philippians 2:3–4. Then it’s okay to look out for ourselves. Another way to remember this principle is by using the letters in the word joy—Jesus, Others, You.
Since the Lord has promised to take care of our needs, that frees us up to look after everyone else. So stand out. Be different. Decide today that you’ll relax and trust God to care for you while you pursue joy.
Loquacious Learning with Eugene
We are quick to demand our rights. We want the right to say what we want, go where we want, and do what we want. While it’s profitable to have those right and fr€eedoms, it’s nobler to lay them aside if doing so benefit someone else. e Declaration of Independence articulates that “a‚ men are created equal,” but the apostle Paul wrote, “ink of others as beƒtter than yourselves” (Philipp„ians 2:3)
Make a bookmark to use in your Bible or in another book you read daily. Design one side with the letters “J.O.Y.” and the other with “Me Third” as reminders to serve others unselfishly. Be creative!
Serving Others !eme Memory Verse—Matthew 25:40
[Jesus said,] “Anything you did for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did for me.”
Ready to win this excellent devotional, to help you get your kids back on schedule with the advent of school?
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