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Email Newsletter - Mar 31

CHILDREN’S MINISTRY

Don’t forget to practice your Palm Sunday songs! Listen to them here and here.
This year, GracePoint is holding Easter in Five Letters on Wednesday, April 16. Several interactive stations will invite you and your family to walk with Jesus through His last days and hours before the cross. We will finish by celebrating the resurrection. You’ll participate in hands-on activities that will drive home the Easter story. Sign up for an entry time between 6:00 and 8:00pm.
Sign up now for Vacation Bible School on June 22-26!

MIDDLE SCHOOL

Middle schoolers and their families are invited to pack meals at Feed My Starving Children in Coon Rapids from 5-6:30pm on Saturday, April 5. This is a fun and easy way to help meet big needs around the world while getting to know the other youth group families. Click here for more details and the sign-up link.

HIGH SCHOOL

Join us at 8pm in the The Bridge for a reading through the Gospel of John on Friday, April 18. This is a great opportunity to focus on the life and death of Jesus as we head into Easter.

Family Resources

Spring 2024/25 Calendar Children's Sunday School Info Youth Sunday School Info (at bottom) AWANA Reminders

Children and Youth Waivers

Please make sure you have filled out the 2024/2025 waiver. This ensures we have the most up-to-date contact information for your family.

Children's Waiver Youth Waiver (6-12 Grade)

Learning this week

Children's Sunday School

March 30, 2025

One day, Jesus and disciples were in Jerusalem during the Festival of Unleavened Bread (Passover). As Jesus and the disciples observed the Passover meal, Jesus introduced the Lord’s Supper. Using the bread and the cup, Jesus instructed His followers to remember His sacrifice to pay the price for their sin. Read Paul’s words about the Lord’s Supper in 1 Corinthians 11:26 and talk about how and why your church observes this event.

Bible Passage: Mark 14:12-16,22-26

Memory Verse: Deuteronomy 6:5

Bonus Verse: 1 Corinthians 11:26

Younger Kids Text Truth: The Lord’s Supper reminds us of Jesus’ ultimate sacrifice to pay the penalty for our sin.

Older Kids Text Truth: The Lord’s Supper illustrates a new covenant established when Jesus made the final atoning sacrifice for our sin.

The Lord’s Supper

Mark 14:12-16,22-26

Every year the Jewish people gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover Festival (also called the Festival of Unleavened Bread). On the first day of the festival, the day the people sacrificed the Passover lamb, the disciples asked Jesus, “Where do You want us to go and prepare the Passover so that You may eat it?”

Jesus sent two of the disciples and told them, “Go into the city and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him and see what house he enters. Tell the owner of the house ‘The Teacher says, “Where is My guest room where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?” ’ The man will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready.”

The disciples obeyed. They went into the city, and everything happened just as Jesus said it would. They found the room and prepared the Passover.

Jesus and the disciples gathered and observed the Passover meal.

Then Jesus led the disciples to have the first Lord’s Supper. Jesus took the bread, blessed it, and broke it. He gave it to the disciples and said, “Take it; this is My body.” The bread was a symbol that Jesus would suffer and die to pay the penalty for our sin.

Next, Jesus picked up a cup and gave thanks for it. He gave it to the disciples, and they all drank from it. Jesus said, “This is the blood of My covenant, which is poured out for many.” The drink was a symbol of the blood Jesus would shed on the cross to establish a new covenant of grace. After singing a hymn together, Jesus and His disciples walked to the Mount of Olives.

Jesus was preparing the disciples for His death on the cross. Soon, the disciples would lead the early church to observe the Lord’s Supper as a reminder that a new covenant was established when Jesus made the final atoning sacrifice for our sin.

AWANA

April 2: Mismatch Night

Cubbies: Bear Hug 25 – Paul & Silas Tell the Good News

Sparks: Keep working on your verses!

T&T: Lesson/Memory Verse 4.6

AWANA Store: Sparks

Middle School

Our youth are studying Apologetics this week

High School

Our youth are studying Apologetics this week