Hope

This past Sunday began our first week on our 50 Days of Hope journey! Our focus was, of course, HOPE. We spent time talking about what hope is, and learned that the only hope that won't every disappoint us is our hope in Jesus Christ. Which brings me to our Bottom Line for this week - My hope is in God's love and forgiveness!


As we're journeying through the 50 Days of Hope together, we'll be following the adventures of our puppet friend, Horatio. Horatio will be learning right along with us about each week's topic. Here's the video for this week's "Horatio's Happenings".



After watching Horatio's confusion about being disappointed after hoping for things, we spent time talking about how Jesus will never disappoint us, which means we can have hope in His love and forgiveness, knowing that it will always be there. Our Bible story was about the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. We saw how the son put his hopes in the things of this world, and ended up losing all of his money and his happiness. However, when he decided to go back home, he began hoping that his father would accept him back. And he did! It's just like our Heavenly Father. Whenever we come back to Him, we can have hope that he will always love and forgive us.

Make sure you pick up our Hope Handout every week. On it you'll find a recap of everything we've learned about in service, including our weekly topic, Bottom Line, and Bible verse. Also, there's a special place for your kids to write some things down about what they've been learning during the 50 Days of Hope. If they bring it back the next week, we'll put it in our Hope bucket for a special drawing for a prize!

Oh, and one more thing... Horatio needs some help. He can't remember his last name and needs suggestions for a new one. So have your kids write down their suggestions on the back of their Hope Handout to turn in. We'll decide based on the suggestions we get.

Here's our theme verse to be thinking about this week! See you all on Sunday.

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." Romans 15:13