Who is God? Week 2 God the Son - Our Savior

We started out the night talking about home remedies for common problems:

stomach ache:  charcoal
ear ache: onion
toothache:  ginger and cayenne paste
cough:  slugs

We discussed how we didn't like those remedies... then bridged into the fact that Jesus is considered a remedy.

We then watched this youtube video called The Cure and discussed it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGdxd9K65Yg

Finally we talked about the meat of the lesson - Jesus - God the Son.  The Bible reveals that Jesus was both fully God and fully human.  He lived a perfect sinless life.  He performed incredible miracles - multiplying food, raising the dead, healing the sick.  And the greatest demonstration was his victory over death - his resurrection from the dead.

Jesus also experienced human emotions and pain.  He cried when Lazarus died.  He felt compassion when he saw the crowds of hurting people.  And when Jesus was crucified, he bled and suffered excruciating pain.

This means that as God the Son, Jesus is powerful enough to save us completely.  As someone who was fully human, Jesus understands and sympathizes with us completely.    AMEN!!

To close out our lesson we made of list of people we wanted to share our remedy - Jesus - with.. then we prayed for them and challenged ourselves to pray for them throughout the summer.

None of these names represent TPCC members... :-)

Scripture Memory:
Because God's children are human beings-made of flesh and blood - the Son also became flesh and blood.  For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death.  Hebrews 2:14

Upcoming Events:

July 4th Parade!  Meet at Ms Gloria’s house (6132 Whiteway) at 9 am!  We will WATCH the parade together!!

July 11th  - 1 to 3 at 15732 N. Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa, FL 33618        Cost $12
July 17th - Pizza and Movie Outreach Night.. INVITE FRIENDS
July 19th - Engage Tampa 2


Thank you for the snacks: Corinna and Mercella
Next week snacks brought by: Keanu and Peyton
We missed you: Abbie and Victoria

Who is God? God the Father - Our Provider

Tonight at ZG we have jumped into an exciting new three-week series examining the topic of who God is.  The first week focused on God the Father, and we saw how he loves us, hears our prayers and provides for our needs.

To really understand now God provides for us... for our first activity each child became a creator and made a creature.  Along with making a creature, the creature had to have a name, what food it needed to be fed, AND what they needed to survive.  The creative side of the kids came out for sure!!!

We discussed that God does not provide out of obligation or guilt or manipulation.  God provides because of a deep, unconditional perfect love for us.  We encouraged the ZG'rs to remember all the big and small ways God has provided for them because the more we are aware, the more thankful we become - and the more we nurture our love for God.

We pray regularly for you and your family, and we hope you have an awesome God-blessed week!

Don't forget Memory Verse is Matthew 6:33 (NLT)

NEXT week we will enjoy a presentation from Team Haiti.  Parents are invited to attend!

I-Dentity: Discovering Who God Created Me to Be

It was a GREAT joy to meet with the new and improved Zero Gravity!  We had a GREAT time and enjoyed learning new things about each other with our Ice Breaker game called Spider Web.  We passed a spool of blue ribbon back and forth in our circle as we answered some great questions about our likes/dislikes.  We created a unique web that if one person was gone, it would look different.  In the same way it's important that we all take part to make the group what it is, unique and special.

Here's a picture of a class - not ours- playing the Spider Way Game.

Tonight we wrapped up our three-week series called "I-dentity".  Week 1 we covered "Who I am" and Week 2 we covered "Who I am NOT".  And this week we talked about being the body of Christ - how each of us has been given a unique set of gifts and abilities to something that honors God and serves others.

Using 1 Corinthians 12:14-21, we focused on how each of us is unique, how we need other people, and how other people need us.  

We discussed the gifts and talents that God gave us to serve others.  We also talked about what job in the church they would love to do.  The answers included be on the worship team, teach the children and hand out communion.

We are going to work on weekly scripture memory... this weeks is 1 Corinthians 12:18... "But our bodies have many parts, and God has put each part just where he wants it." 

Have a great God-Filled Week!

Ms Kim and Mr. John