Good Morning Elim Families! No April Fools jokes here, Just coming to you with info on tonight and some challenges (see below)! I am so glad the sun is shining again today. If your anything like me you are suffering from “cabin fever” as well. Its looking like the sun is going to stick around today and temps should get up where we can get outside so take advantage of that and then join us tonight as we dive into our next ingredient and make a fun recipe together! Below is the link to the recipe we used and a couple others with different ingredients, if you want to check and make sure you have what you need to join us tonight in this baking lesson. We would love to see your baking experience take a picture or short video to share with us. We miss you all and are praying daily for each of you!!

https://celebratingsweets.com/soft-sprinkle-sugar-cookies/

https://princesspinkygirl.com/rainbow-sprinkle-cookies/ This is the recipe we used and will show in the video!

KIDS BIBLE CHALLENGE – Read all of 1 Samuel chapter 3 and discuss with your family how things might have looked if Samuel had ignored the calling of his name and how it would have changed how his life turned out.

MOVIE WATCH CHALLENGE – For Sunday April 5th Watch MONSTERS UNIVERSITY!

PARENTS CORNER – Hey parents we have some AMAZING resources heading your way in the next week so please check back to see those and to share with your kiddos all that’s going on here at Elim even while we are not meeting together. I hope all of you saw my video about making palm branches and sharing videos and pictures of your kids with them to be featured Sunday morning in our sermon video. We cant wait to see all their smiling faces!!

Tonight’s Lesson available here!

Yes you read that right, Virtual Camp with our friends from Camp Good News!

Our wonderful friends are filling the need for variety in our children’s activities while on this hiatus. They have decided to help out by hosting a fun virtual camp for all of us. Just a few of the things they have lined up are crafts, Nature Center Critters, and Family Trivia Night. These are done through Zoom and they lay it all out for you on the website.

Below is the link to the web page to find all the information on the how, whats and whens so take a moment to check it out! While your there say a prayer for our Ministry Partners there at Camp Good News.

http://iheartcamp.org/virtualcamp/index.html

Hey everyone! We are excited that we are still going to have church… but from your homes! We hope you will join us.

Parents, we need your help tonight! Here is the plan:

6:00 – 6:15

We’ve recorded a short lesson for tonight and you can watch it here:

(Please forgive the about 10 second blank space near the end of the video, it does pick back up).

6:15 – 6:45

Ask the kids to share with you what the lesson was about. Encourage or help them to read the passage 2 Kings 4:1-17.

6:45 – 7:00

Get ready for a game (or more) of Quiplash. This is a party game that we’re going to try to play together via streaming. For full details on how to join and how to play please review this:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K6vDUXPuVQPJ56EcWtDawWgR3vy2XVarlGLGlL7_moY/edit?usp=sharing

If you know how to play, please at least skip to page 6 and review our rules.

Important: the link for the stream for Quiplash will be shared on a new blog post here about 6:45. We will start playing at 7:00. Watch here for it: http://www.elimqc.org/category/sparks/

Parents are welcome to play with us! Or join the audience and vote! If the first game fills quickly we will ask that parents let kids be players for sure in the second game. Each game lasts about 15 minutes.

7:00 – End

Quiplash!!!!!

Extra Fun!

Good Morning Spark Families!

I hope some of you got to jump into the Parentzmatter: The Quarantined Family webinar the other night. I really enjoyed the input and reminders that the guest speakers gave. I especially loved Johnathon Banks advice to schedule in Honors Dishes and AP Laundry, and that Parenting is a FULL CONTACT SPORT :)! Also listening to Dannah Gersh speak about “meatloaf” moments, gave some relief that we all have conflict in our lives no matter where we are in life, I loved that she said conflict is proof of connection. If you didn’t have a connection, didn’t care, you wouldn’t have a reason to fight or have conflict. How powerful to think of it like that. Seriously if you didn’t get a chance to see it check it out, there is sooooo much good stuff to glean from it, the video is still up at the link below! https://www.facebook.com/ParentzMatter/videos/248314282870665/

After watching that yesterday, we sat down together as a family, made up and implemented a schedule. It wasn’t easy or fun but we let the kids choose 1 thing to be put into the schedule. We wanted to give them ownership of it. It worked well for the most part. 🙂 With 4 kids its hard not to have disagreements and being cooped up means frustrations happen more often than not. I found myself escaping to the bathroom to collect myself a couple of times through out the day, any other mamas feel me there? Sometimes a self issued time out is needed, once we are calm we can help them be. Our schedule isn’t perfect by any means but it helped structure the day so that we didn’t have kids lost in electronics mindlessly playing video games and not engaging with family and school work. I am going to share ours just so you can see it doesn’t have to be extravagant or anything crazy, in all honesty simple is the easiest and more often than not the best course of action! Tomorrow afternoon after our video lesson I will share with you some resources we have found useful during this time!

JOIN US TONIGHT…6pm below is a hint!