2024 Week 33
Hello, Springers!
School began this week for many families in Roseville. Whether you educate your children in public, private, or homeschool it’s a week of new schedules, new fears, and new fun. In thinking about the new school year, two questions came to mind – not just for those with school age children and grandchildren, but for all of us. The two questions are:
Whose calendar?
Whose influence?
Life is lived in seasons. We mark our time with different calendars that reflect things that are most important to us. School and sports calendars are the easiest examples of this. Many digital calendars shade in a block of time with a user’s chosen color. All of us are looking to the next season and beginning to shade in our blocks as individuals and families.
Whose calendar shapes your personal calendar? School calendars are important, but are they the most important? It’s worth asking the same question about our work calendars and even our vacation calendars. This is one reason why I appreciate the old church calendar that prioritizes pointing out the person and work of Christ over six months of the year.
More than that we should ask whose influence? Parents, I want to remind you that you are the greatest spiritual influence on your children. God gave them to you as a gift, and you to them as a gift! When you live your faith out honestly (not perfectly) before them, they see it and take it in whether it seems like they do or not.
There are many incredible and terrible coaches, teachers, and mentors in the lives of our children and grandchildren. However, when someone comes to my office and wants to talk seriously about what has influenced their choices in life the conversation always turns toward a person’s parents. Always.
That’s why the mission of our children’s ministry is to equip parents to nurture their children’s faith. Rachel Coffman, our director of ministry to children, invested time and energy in a new curriculum for us to use this year, and I couldn’t be more excited! I think you will be, too!
in Christ,
Pastor Tag