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Sunday School For Everyone!
Fall-Winter Schedule
Sept. 7 through May 24th

8:30 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Sunday School for all ages
10:00 am Coffee & Fellowship
10:30 am Worship

Come join us for great fellowship and learning
 about the Word of God.


 

CALLING ALL GRADUATES

If you have someone graduating from high school, 
trade school,  college or getting a graduate degree,
please let the church office know.   We will recognize
them and their accomplishments during worship on May 16th. 

Please let the church office know by May 1st. 
      Office number:  296-3199, or,
secretary@daytonpres.org

 

Staying in the Word Together

 Click here to follow along with Scripture for the year

Join Christians throughout North America as they read together – each Sunday – the scriptures for the week.  Known as the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), the collections of readings is organized so that after a three year cycle, members of churches will have read through the majority of the Bible.  In our church, our Sunday school curriculum follows the RCL.

As a church and denomination, we use the RCL and provide these to the pastors for direction on the order of worship and for guidance in Christian Education. A guest pastor may choose not to use the scriptures, but we are providing them to the congregation as a means of Staying in the Word Together.  Traditionally, there will be an Old Testament, Psalm New Testament and Gospel reading. 

 


Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
rend your hearts and not your clothing.  Return to the Lord, your God.               
Joel 2:12-13

Lenten Bible Study Series
Feb. 21st  through Mar. 21st

Join us on five Sunday evenings during the season of Lent as we explore the historical context of the scriptures through a tour of the Holy Land with Ray Vander Laan. 
We have utilized his video series for the past two years during the Lenten season. This year we are going to explore the
Faith Lessons on the Promised Land

Leaders for this program are: 

  • Rick Ryan

  •  Jane Coleman

  •  Kathy Deckard

  • Matthew Campbell

  • Rob Wagner

 Lenten  Schedule

  •  Feb.  7th    7pm  Ash Wednesday Service

  • Feb. 21st     7pm  Lenten Study

  • Feb. 28th    7pm  Lenten Study

  • Mar.  7th   7pm  Lenten Study

  • Mar. 14th    7pm  Lenten Study

  • Mar. 21st    7pm  Lenten Study

I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.  Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,
loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and holding fast to him.  
                         Deuteronomy 30: 19-20


Brown Bag Bible Study   

Bring your lunch
In the church boardroom
Bible in hand
Learn the Gospels
Enjoy fellowship

 

Join Ron Kelley @ 12:30 on Wednesdays as we concluding our study of the Gospel according to Matthew. 
After some discussion, the class decided that we would continue our studies with the Gospel of  John.  Hope you can join us.

 

VBS 2009 Crocodile Dock "Where Fearless Kids Shine God's Light"
Thank you volunteers! Click here to see the list.

Click here for a list of our 4 H participants and their results

 A place for you

How much do you know about the Bible? Or Christian history? Or different ways of praying? Or Christian stewardship? Or Christian theology? Do you even know why most — but not all — Christians worship on Sundays?

The point is, no matter what your age, there is much to learn from classes offered at the church. If you are interested in learning about a certain religious topic, speak to the pastor.

Look for the smile which breaks forth on the pastor’s face. Why? Because an educated congregation thrills pastors. Learning is part of loving God with one’s mind. Christian education helps us understand what living as Christians is all about. So go ahead, ask about a class that might interest you.

“It is not enough to have a good mind,” said the French philosopher, René Descartes. “The main thing is to use it well.” Learning about Christian beliefs and practices is using one’s mind quite well. Your church is a place for you to learn. It has a class for you.

 

 Sowers Class
“What Are We Doing Down There?”          

For some time, I have led the adult Sunday School class that meets in the basement kitchen area on Sunday mornings.  I learned a while ago that our class has a name -- we’re the “Sowers” class.  That makes sense in light of our congregation’s motto “Sowing the Seeds of Love”.  I like that motto. I’ve always liked that motto.   And I dare to say I think God likes it, too.  I think it speaks volumes about how we see ourselves as individuals and as a congregation.

Well, I’m supposed to share with you a little bit about what we do when we’re together on Sunday mornings. But, first, I have to say that whenever I am not able to be there, or I’m gone for some reason, we are so blessed to have people like Mike Grimes, Rev. Ron Kelley and Lois Campbell who will step in to lead the class.  This is one of the things I truly love about serving God in this place.  God has given us people with hearts and voices who will say, “Yes,” when a need arises.

Okay, back to what we’re doing on Sunday mornings.  Have you ever wondered what we’re doing down there in the kitchen?  Well, over time we’ve done Bible studies, video based lessons, and lesson series on various topics.  For the last several months we’ve been working with a curriculum called  “The Wired Word.”  Every Thursday I receive an e-mail that includes a lesson taken right out of the current week’s headlines.  Each installment includes biblical commentary and discussion questions related to a topic in the news that week.

We’ve had lessons about older children being abandoned under Nebraska’s “Safe Haven”  law, medical advances making life and death boundaries less certain, the death of comedian George Carlin, ministers breaking federal tax laws which prohibit a minister from endorsing a particular candidate from the pulpit, an autistic teen being barred from attending church, a church that declined a $600,000 tithe from a lotto winner, and most recently how Barack Obama’s election is seen as a milestone in our nation’s history.

If you drop in to join us,  you don’t have to worry about being “behind” the rest of the class,  because, every Sunday it’s something new!  And every Sunday the discussion is lively!  I really hope you will join us.  Oh, by the way, you can bring your donut and coffee downstairs with you.  Most of us do.

Lois Campbell, Mike Grimes and Mike Grimes

Pre-school - 1st

A major theme of many of our lessons this past school year in the Pre-K to 1st grade class has been the power of prayer.  During one of our lessons, we made a prayer board.  The kids drew pictures of who or what they wanted to pray for on little hearts and placed them in paper packets shaped like praying hands.  We ended up having many more than one heart available for each child – the kids didn’t need coaxing to draw many prayers and tuck them into the hands!  Since then, they have offered each week something to pray for at the end of class.  I feel blessed to witness how many of the prayers offered up are so genuinely from the heart of these little people.  They have lovingly covered moms, dads, siblings, grandparents, and our church family in prayer consistently.

As many of you know, we are in a trial stage of having all kids from Pre-K to 5th grade learn a memory verse each month with the hopes that they can “tuck away” in their hearts something that will help them to live a life for Christ as well as to shine His light into the lives of others.  We are not expecting perfection in memory; we are just hoping – and praying – that the meaning of each verse will ‘stick’ with them.  If you can encourage any of these children along with their verses, we would love your help!  If you have any favorite verses in mind that you think would be good for the kids to know, we would love to hear from you!  Lastly, and most importantly, we would appreciate your prayers for our  “Music, Mission, & Memory” program, as well as all the youth of our congregation—all are works-in-progress for Christ!

  In Him, Betsy Wagner

 

2nd - 3rd

This fall the 2nd & 3rd grade Sunday School class is studying people from the Old Testament.  We’ve studied Moses and Deborah and we will finish with Hannah, Samuel, Elijah, Elisha, and Isaiah.  We use costumes, artwork and word puzzles to learn the material.  We have lots of fun and invite all 2nd & 3rd graders to join us in the room at the top of the stairs.   

Kathy Shaw

 

 

 4th- 5th

Happy Fall Everyone!  I am very happy to be teaching the older elementary kids again this year! The new curriculum is awesome and has us writing and thinking each class.  We have finished one unit already and it was entitled Call to Freedom and Obedience.  We study stories about Moses out of the book Exodus.  We developed a timeline of the highlights of Moses life.  Discussed the Commandments and how they are the rules that God gave us to live our lives by.  More importantly, we talked about how the Commandments are timeless guidelines and apply just as much today as they did in Moses time.  We just started our second unit – Call to Hope.  We learned about Deborah, a prophetess who was a judge in Israel.  We have such great kids in our church and it is a pleasure to be with them each week and learn from one another by sharing our ideas and thoughts.

Becki Sprague

Jr. High Class   

Keepers of the Covenant 
The word Bible comes from the Greek word “biblo” which means book.  The word holy means “set apart” or “special.”  Thus:  “A SPECIAL BOOK”

So we opened that “special book” and started with “In the beginning.”  The main character is God.  The books tell how God worked in history to create and later redeem his people.  We have been studying the Torah (the first five books of the Bible).  We’ve discussed that Genesis; chapters 1 through 11 are called primeval stories because the stories were passed by word of mouth.  The Bible has stories of God’s “faithfulness.”  We looked for that faithfulness in the stories of Adam & Eve, Noah, Abraham & Sarah, Isaac, Jacob & Esau, Joseph and Moses.  Faithful God, keeper of promises, is with all of us always.

Jon Grimes & the Junior High Class

 

Sr. High Class

The Senior High Sunday School Class is currently working very hard on the Sunrise Service.  The kids are learning their lines and coming up with costumes and props for the Easter skit.  All of us are very excited about this year’s program and hope everyone can come and celebrate Easter with us!

When we are not working on the Sunrise Service, we are studying the book “What’s So Great About Christianity” by Dinesh D’Souza.  It is a book about apologetics.  I have to admit it is a tough read but our high school kids are getting through it remarkably well.  We have had some great discussions and together we are learning more about what it means to be a Christian.

We also read and discuss devotionals out of a book called, “Download Devotions to Start Your Day.”  This book is geared for teenagers.  All of the devotions target teens and their problems and struggles.  We have shared many stories and had some great discussions because of the topics covered in this little devotional.

We continue to work on our prayer wall.  It is becoming quite a thing to see.  Our kids pray over the people and things on the wall every week.  We invite you to come check it out, put a prayer on the wall or come and pray over the things on the wall.

I never run out of great things to say about the kids in the senior high class!  They are an amazing group of kids!  They are a hard working and dedicated group of young people.  They are inspirational and fun to be around!  Please come and join us and see for yourself all the fun we are having in the senior high room!

Hillary Basden
 

 

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