AREA51 is kicking off an exciting new fundraiser today!
After worship services, the youth will be handing out tubes of M&M Minis for you to enjoy.
After you have finished the M&Ms~ please fill up the empty tube with quarters & return to us by April 15th.
Every time you add a quarter to the tube, please pray for our AREA51 students too.
When the tube is full, you can drop it off at the AREA51 table.
The money earned from this fundraiser will go towards upcoming Student Ministry events.
Thanks for all of your prayers and support!
Harvest will be supporting Holy Trinity Lutheran Church hosting temporarily homeless families in Kingsport by providing meals and evening fellowship beginning the week of March 11th. If you are available and would like to help cook a meal, or come and fellowship for a few hours during that week, please contact Tabitha Sells at 292-3221.
Basic Truth: Jesus Wants to be My Friend Forever
Question: How do you love God?
Bottom Line: Love God with all your heart
Weekly Focus: Jesus talked to God.
Bible Story: Jesus Prays
Bible Verse: Matthew 6: 5-13
“Love…God with all your heart.” Matthew 22:37, NlrV
This month our UpStreet Kids are learning about Honor – Letting someone know you see how valuable they are.
Learn MoreAll Kidstuf Dancers will be meeting for dance practice immediately after the January 22nd service. We’ll have pizza first, then practice. Parents are welcome to stay and eat. We will practice down the block, at Picsee Studio, 115 east market street.
Our area currently has over 1,000 children that are homeless and/or are in need of clothes. If you’d like to help by giving a tax deductible donation of new or gently used children’s/adult clothes, kitchen or household items for these families please contact Amy Fitzpatrick at 423-367-7030 anytime thru December and January.
Basic Truth: Jesus Wants to be My Friend Forever
Question: Is there anything too hard for Jesus?
Bottom Line: Jesus can do anything.
Weekly Focus: Nothing is too hard for Jesus.
Bible Story: Feeding 5,000
Bible Verse: Mark 6:30-44 “With God, all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26, NIV
This month our UpStreet Kids are learning about Self-Control – choosing to do what you should do, not what you want to do.
Memory Verse: “My dear brothers and sisters, pay attention to what I say. Everyone should be quick to listen. But they should be slow to speak. They should be slow to get angry.” (James 1:19 NlrV)
Learn MoreThink Twice
Bible Story: Think Twice (Lord’s supper) Luke 22:14-20
Bottom Line: Take time to celebrate what God has done.
Memory Verse: “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:18, NIV
Virtue: Gratitude—letting others know you see how they’ve helped you.
Basic Truth: I can trust God no matter what.
Telling the Bible Story
STORYTELLER 1: “After traveling to Jerusalem with His followers, Jesus sent His close friends, Peter and John, ahead to find a place for them celebrate the Passover Feast. ‘Hey! This is the perfect place!’ John said. ‘Plenty of room for Jesus and all twelve of us.’”
PAST PROMISE
STORYTELLER 3: “Jewish people celebrated the Passover Feast each year to remember how God saved the people when they were slaves in Egypt. God had used all kinds of awesome miracles, like turning water into blood, plagues of frogs, and other amazing things to make the Egyptians let His people go. God wanted His people to remember what He had done, so they held a big celebration meal each year.”
STORYTELLER 2: “At the feast, they ate unleavened bread (hold up matzo bread) which is flat almost like a cracker, made without the yeast that makes bread rise and get light and fluffy. This type of bread was eaten right before the Jews left Egypt, because they had to escape very quickly before the Egyptians changed their minds and came to recapture them! They didn’t have time to wait for the bread to rise.”
STORYTELLER 3: “They also ate bitter tasting herbs to remember how sad and bitter slavery had been, and they served lamb, (hold up toy lamb) to remind them that a lamb had been killed as a sacrifice at that first Passover meal long ago.”
STORYTELLER 1: “Just like people in the United States celebrate Thanksgiving every year, Jewish families and friends would gather together to celebrate the Feast of Passover to take time to remember and celebrate what God had done.”
NEW PROMISE
STORYTELLER 2: “As everyone gathered around the table to eat, Jesus said, ‘I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.’ (Luke 22:15b, NIV).”
STORYTELLER 3: “Peter and John and the others were pretty confused at this talk about suffering! ‘Jesus is the Son of God. He can do anything He wants to do! Why should He suffer?’ they must have thought.”
STORYTELLER 1: “Jesus took the cup of wine (hold up stoneware cup) and told the others, ‘Take this and divide it among you. For I tell you I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.’ (Luke 22:17b-18, NIV)”
STORYTELLER 3: “Now they were even more confused! Jesus was acting as though this was His last supper with them. Maybe Peter wondered, ‘Is Jesus going away somewhere? And if He is, why can’t I go too?’”
STORYTELLER 2: “Jesus took the unleavened bread and gave thanks for it, then He broke it into pieces for them to share and said, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me,’ (Luke 22:19b, NIV)”
STORYTELLER 3: “Wait a minute! Jesus talked like He was going away, What was going on? John may have thought, ‘Isn’t the Passover Feast to help us remember what happened in Egypt? Why is Jesus asking us to remember Him?”
STORYTELLER 1: “After the supper, Jesus picked up the cup of wine and said, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.’ (Luke 22:20b, NIV)”
STORYTELLER 3: “A covenant is just a fancy word for ‘promise.’ When God saved the Jews from Egypt, He promised they would be His special people if they obeyed His commands. But Jesus spoke of a new promise that would replace this old one.”
ALWAYS REMEMBER
STORYTELLER 1: “When His followers celebrated this last supper with Jesus, they didn’t understand what Jesus was saying to them.”
STORYTELLER 3: “They didn’t understand that Jesus was about to become a sacrifice, like the first Passover lamb.”
STORYTELLER 2: “He would give up His body—”
STORYTELLER 1: “And spill His blood—”
STORYTELLER 3: “When He died on the cross to save all of us from our sins.”
STORYTELLER 2: “After Jesus died, His friends understood what He had meant when He spoke at that last supper. From that time on, whenever they shared the bread—”
STORYTELLER 1: “And drank the wine, they would [Impress] take time to celebrate what God has done. But instead of celebrating Passover—”
STORYTELLER 3: “They remembered the sacrifice Jesus made for all of us, and God’s new promise that anyone who believes in Jesus as his Savior will be able to live forever with God in heaven.”
WRAPPING UP THE STORY
HOST: [Impress] “Take time to celebrate what God has done. It’s important to set aside special times and days to remember what Jesus and God have done for us. That’s one reason we get together every Sunday to have a day of worship and praise. It’s also a good thing to do at special times during the year, because if you don’t take time to celebrate something, you tend to forget about it.
“Suppose no one ever celebrated birthdays. Pretty soon, I bet no one would even remember what day they were born! Man, that would be a bummer. I love my birthday. But I love God a whole lot more. It would be a total mess if I forgot all the amazing things God has done for me—like sending me His Son to be my Savior! That’s why we want to make sure we [Impress] take time to celebrate what God has done.
HOST: “I really want you all to remember to [Impress] take time to celebrate what God has done, so let’s say it together.”
HOST and KIDS: [Impress] “Take time to celebrate what God has done.”
HOST: “Yeah! So, I want you kids to talk to your families about setting aside one night a week, maybe at dinner or bedtime, to say prayers of thanks, praise, and gratitude to God for all He has done that week! Cool, right? It’ll make you more aware of all God is doing in your life all the time, and you’ll be able to share all of that with others. Now, I think we ought to get up on our feet and celebrate God long and loud with another song that shows our gratitude!”
Prayer
HOST: “I’m so grateful we had a month so full of things to be grateful for! Before we head back to our Small Groups, let’s say a special prayer of thanks to our wonderful God. Father, You are so good and loving to us. You meet our every need. You even sent Your very own Son to sacrifice Himself to be our Savior. We are so grateful to You. Help everyone here to always take time to celebrate all You have done for each of us. Amen.”
Learn MoreAREA51 Service Project
AREA51 Youth are going to Second Harvest to help assemble 5000 Thanksgiving Day boxes for the needy in our community on Mon, Nov 14th and Tues, Nov 15th from 6-8pm. Stop by the AREA 51 table to find out the details and to pick up your Nov calendar.
Answer the Phone~ Do you sense that you are being called to get involved but you are not sure just how? We have several different roles in the Children’s Ministry that are waiting on someone to answer the phone. We are so very blessed for the leaders we have with the precious gift of working with children. If you want to get involved but don’t feel that is your gifting, no worries, we have other roles that are behind the scenes. Sounds like something you may be interested in learning more about? Contact Christy McGriff at 477-0944 or stayconnected@harvesttn.com
UpStreet (K-5th grade) -November
This month our UpStreet Kids are learning about Gratitude – letting others know you see how they’ve helped you
Memory verse :”Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” (1 Thessalonians 5:18 NIV)
Learn MoreArea51 Scentsy Fundraiser Final Days
Our Scentsy Fundraiser will run through Wednesday, Nov 9th. Don’t miss your opportunity to purchase your very own Scentsy product or purchase a unique gift for those hard-to-buy-for folks on your Christmas list! A percentage of all sales will go towards our winter youth conference in Pigeon Forge. Visit the Area51 table to check out the products and to place your orders.
Music Ministry~
If you are a musician or singer, and are interested in being involved in the music ministry at Harvest, you are invited to hang out for a jam night with the Harvest Worship Team. Date and location are still to be determined. If you are interested and would like to attend, please see Nikki Hayes.
KAZURI ~November
Basic Truth: God made me.
Question: What can help you?
Bottom Line: God made people who help me.
Weekly Focus: God gives me family to care for me.
Bible Story: Ruth and Naomi
Bible Verse: Ruth 1:1-19
“Be kind and loving to each other.” Ephesians 4:32, NCV
UpStreet (K-5th grade) -November
This month our UpStreet Kids are learning about Gratitude – letting others know you see how they’ve helped you
Memory verse :”Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” (1 Thessalonians 5:18 NIV)
Learn More
AREA 51 Scentsy Fundraiser:
32 days till Thanksgiving! 63 days till Christmas!
What could be better than your home filled with the aroma of Pumpkin Pie or Sugar Cookies for the holidays?!!
Scentsy has tart warmers, tarts, plug-ins, room sprays and so much more! Stop by our Area 51 table in the lobby to view the Scentsy catalog. Orders can be placed at the table or with any youth member. Help us make this a successful fundraiser!!
Music Ministry
If you are a musician or singer, and are interested in being involved in the music ministry at Harvest, you are invited to hang out for a jam night with the Harvest Worship Team. Date and location are still to be determined. If you are interested and would like to attend, please see Nikki Hayes.
KAZURI ~October
Basic Truth: God made me.
Question: What does God love about you?
Who loves you? (Twos)
Bottom Line: God loves everything about me.
God loves me. (Twos)
Weekly Focus: God has a plan for me.
Bible Verse: Jeremiah 29:11 Ephesians 2:10
“I am wonderfully made.” Psalm 139:14, NIV
UpStreet (K-5th grade)
This month our UpStreet Kids are learning about
CREATIVITY – using your imagination to do something unique
Memory verse: “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (Ephesians 2:10 NIV)
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Kazuri Team
We are having a meeting TODAY, September 18th, immediately following the service. We will meet at the church office at 223 East Center Street. Lunch will be provided. This meeting is one of two we will have each year, so please try your best to attend. We will go over our curriculum and make decisions on how we will prepare for each month.
Want to be part of an exciting ministry?
We are putting together a group of creative planners to coordinate special events/activities with the goal of building community among the kids, UpStreet Team and parents. This is going to be a fun group to be a part of. Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to get involved. You may contact Christy McGriff at 423-963-0944 or stayconnected@harvesttn.com for more information
September Youth Events:
-09/24 High School Youth are headed to Damascus for camping, hiking, biking, and so much more!
~Please stop by the youth table in the lobby for more information and your September calendar.
First Time Visitors~
If you are a first time visitor, we would like to give you a gift. Please stop by the table out front and fill out a visitor’s card to receive your gift. Thank You!
UpStreet (K-5th grade)
This month our UpStreet Kids are learning about KNOWLEDGE – discovering something new so you can be better at whatever you do.
Upstreet & Kazuri Registration
If you have not registered your child for the UpStreet or Kazuri Fall Program, please do so by filling out the pink(UpStreet) or purple (Kazuri) registration form located at the check-in table. It is important we have up to date information on your child. We would also like to add you to our distribution list for updates.
KAZURI ~September
Basic Truth: God loves me.
Question: Who can help you?
Bottom Line: God can help me do anything. God can help me. (Twos)
Weekly Focus: God can help me do anything.
Bible Story: David is Strong in Battle
Bible Verse: 1 Samuel 18:7, 12-14
“I can do all things through Christ.” Philippians 4:13, NCV
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KIDSTUF
September 11th – 11:15, Just after the service. EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN US FOR KIDSTUF – Where parents and kids worship together to learn about God’s big ideas!
Upstreet & Kazuri (Children’s Ministry) Fall Registration
The Children’s Ministry will begin our Fall Program on September 4th.. For those of you who have not yet attended a registration session, we will be doing registration for Kazuri (Infant – Pre K) and Upstreet (K-5) today immediately following the service. We are reserving the last Sunday in August for those that are not in attendance today. Registration will be held in the UpStreet/Kazuri area and will last approximately 20 minutes. This includes updating forms, learning about the fall program, meeting the Small Group Leaders and learning how to partner with our Children’s Ministry in leading your child into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. We look forward to seeing you there!
KAZURI ~ August
Basic Truth: God loves me.
Question: Can you do what God says?
Who knows best? (Twos)
Bottom Line: God knows what’s best for me.
God knows best. (Twos)
Weekly Focus: It’s never too late to choose God’s way.
Bible Story: Jonah
Bible Verse: Jonah 1:17-3:3
“God’s way is perfect.” Psalm 18:30, NlrV
Middle School and High School Students
The countdown is on… Wednesday, September 7th is the kick-off to our new year! All parents, middle schoolers, and high schoolers mark your calendars for this date! You won’t want to miss the youth room remodel and other great things we’ve got planned!
*Parents of all actively involved and all upcoming students please stop by the youth table in the lobby to complete an information form, so that you can be sure to get all youth announcements.*
ten13 will not be meeting on Wednesday nights throughout the month of August. We will see you all again in September! Please be in prayer for the leadership team as we take this time to plan our upcoming year!
Want to get plugged in?
We have some open spots in our Mobile Ministry Team. If you want to be involved, this might be the place for you to get plugged in. You may inquire to Rob Beverly or Christy McGriff or email stayconnected@harvesttn.com for more information.
Tithes and Offerings
You may mail you offerings and tithes to:
Harvest Community Church
PO Box 6665
Kingsport, TN 37663
BUILDING FUND
Our Building Fund total is now $165,874.13
HARVEST INFO:
~Harvest office is located at 223 E. Center St.
in downtown Kingsport
~Our address for mailing is
Harvest Community Church
PO BOX 6665
Kingsport, TN 37663
~Website is harvesttn.com
ten13 News
ten13 will not be meeting on Wednesday nights the rest of August. We will see you all again in September! Please be in prayer for the leadership team as we take this time to plan our upcoming year!
Upstreet & Kazuri (Children’s Ministry)
Fall Registration
Can you believe Fall is just around the corner! The Children’s Ministry will begin our Fall Program on September 4th and we are so excited to get back into the Rethink Curriculum. We will be doing registration for Kazuri (Infant – Pre K) and Upstreet (K-5) each Sunday in August. Parents need to attend only one registration session. Registration will begin following the service and will be held in the UpStreet room. Registration includes updating forms, meeting the Small Group Leaders and learning how to partner with our Children’s Ministry in leading your child into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. We look forward to seeing you there!
KAZURI ~ August
Basic Truth: God loves me.
Question: Can you do what God says?
Who knows best? (Twos)
Bottom Line: God knows what’s best for me.
God knows best. (Twos)
Weekly Focus: I should obey God.
Bible Story: Joshua & Caleb Spy
Bible Verse: Numbers 13-14
“God’s way is perfect.” Psalm 18:30, NlrV
Realm Community Groups Picnic ~
August 14th, 5:00
If you are in a community group, know someone in a community group, thought about being in a community group, or thought about knowing someone who has thought about being in a community group, etc… Join us for a great time. See the information table for details.
Tithes and Offerings ~
You may mail you offerings and tithes to:
Harvest Community Church
PO Box 6665
Kingsport, TN 37663
BUILDING FUND~
Our Building Fund total is now $165,874.13
HARVEST INFO:
~Harvest office is located at 223 E. Center St. in downtown Kingsport
~Our address for mailing is
Harvest Community Church
PO BOX 6665
Kingsport, TN 37663
~Website is harvesttn.com
Learn MoreJuly 31, 2011
ten13 Fundraiser Volunteers Needed ~
Please consider helping our youth deliver the door2doordeals coupons on Saturday, August 6th. We are in need of 30 volunteers to deliver the coupons and 10 volunteers to drive the volunteers. This event will generate a large amount of money for our youth to put toward attending a winter youth conference. For more information or to sign up to volunteer, please visit our ten13 table in the lobby.
YOUTH~We will not be meeting this Wednesday.
Upstreet & Kazuri (Children’s Ministry) Fall Registration
Can you believe Fall is just around the corner! The Children’s Ministry will begin our Fall Program on September 4th and we are so excited to get back into the Rethink Curriculum. We will be doing registration for Kazuri (Infant – Pre K) and Upstreet (K-5) each Sunday in August. Parents need to attend only one registration session. Registration will begin following the service and will be held in the UpStreet room. Registration includes updating forms, meeting the Small Group Leaders and learning how to partner with our Children’s Ministry in leading your child into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. We look forward to seeing you there!
Mission to Rwanda - Please keep the Wilson Family in your prayers this week. Kevin and Tina are on a mission trip to Rwanda.
“Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.” – 1 Cor.11:1
KAZURI
Basic Truth: God loves me.
Question: Can you believe what God says?
Who loves me? (Twos)
Bottom Line: God says what He says He will do.
Weekly Focus: I should do what God says.
Bible Story: Naamen
Bible Verse: 2 Kings 5:1-14
“Trust the Lord with all your heart.” Proverbs 3:5, NCV
BUILDING FUND
Our Building Fund total is now $165,874.13
First Time Visitors~
If you are a first time visitor, we would like to give you a gift. Please stop by the table out front and fill out a visitor’s card to receive your gift. Thank You!
HARVEST INFO:
~Harvest office is located at 223 E. Center St.
in downtown Kingsport
~Our address for mailing is
Harvest Community Church
PO BOX 6665
Kingsport, TN 37663
~Website is harvesttn.com
Learn More