The Kings Kidz Corner

This week, new lights were installed in our church.  These lights illuminated the church and even allowed the members to see the pages on the bible more clearly.  These lights also allowed the members to see some of the things that had gone unnoticed in past years.  I thought about this in a spiritual light (no pun intended) and remembered Matthew 5:14 which says that we are the light of the world.  As the light, we are called to shine in the dark areas.  We are also called to exude the true light which is Jesus Christ.  Matthew 5:16 says "Let your light so shine before men that they might see your good works and glorify the Father which is in Heaven." When we let our light shine, people will glorify our God.
God Bless,
Min. JJ

Hey young men and women of the King's Kidz Youth Department,
I am excited to start a new year with you as one of your youth directors.  This year promises to be a ground breaking and innovative one.  This year we pray that God will give us the strategy and strength to accomplish the goals that He has set before us. We have a meeting this Wednesday at 6:00 PM in the church library.
God Bless,
Minister JJ

I thank God for this 4th of July.  Not only is it the day that commemorates the day that the United States became an independent entity, it is also my mother's birthday.  Tyler's too.  Go Ty.  During this day, we as Christians should take extra time to thank God for the fact that He has liberated us from the law of sin and shame.  God has restored us to our rightful place in Him.  If you haven't yet taken the opportunity to give your life to Christ, read Romans 10:9. "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth theLord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raisedhim from the dead, thou shalt be saved".  Get saved and then you can truly celebrate independence. 


God Bless you, 
Min. JJ White III

Hey young people, I just saw one of the coolest gadgets ever.  Of course it was developed in part by Apple, Inc.  The device is a watch/pedometer/running coach.  It allows you to record your workouts and track them on nike+.com.  I think that this is a must have for anyone who is serious about taking their running and cross training workouts to a new level.  

In this week's lesson of the 40 Days of Community, the lesson was about growing together.  Together we learned about the requirements of growing together.  One of the requirements of growing together is patience with one another.  Another requirement for us to grow together is truthfulness with one another about our likes and dislikes.  Pastor Rick Warren gives is a few tools that we can use in order to be truthful with one another.  The first tool is to check your motives.  It is important that we speak the truth in love for the right reasons, not to hurt one another or to boost ourselves.  The next step is to plan our presentation by planning when we will say what we need to say, planning what we will say, and by planning how we will say it.  Pastor Warren says that we need to pray and tell the truth tactfully.  We need to speak lovingly and gently.  Finally, growing together requires forgiveness.  It is so important that we learn to forgive one another.  This forgiveness is not only for the person who has done wrong but it is also for the person who has been done wrong to.  Let's grow together people.
God Bless,
Min. JJ White III

Hey young people, last week's lesson in the 40 days of community was about belonging together.  In this lesson Pastor Rick Warren taught about love.  He talked about how love always protects, meaning that you will not talk about your brothers or sisters in a negative way.  You will work to protect them from the negativity that may be around.  Love trusts.  One of the things that I loved about what he said is that love is enthusiastic about one another's accomplishment.  This means NO HATERS!!! We should all be happy about the blessings that God has allowed to happen in the lives of our brothers and sisters.  Pastor Warren then says that love hopes.  He finally says that love perseveres.  To illustrate this point he said that "A brother is in you corner when you're in the corner."  So look at these four attributes of love and see whether or not your views of love hold up. Remember, "We all being many are one body of Christ and members one of another" Romans 12:5, meaning that we need to love our brothers even as we love ourselves as Christ does for us.

God Bless,
Min. JJ White III