PARENT CORNER DAY 1 TODAY: FEBRUARY 15-16 weekly Read Luke 10:25-37 Jesus told the story of the Good Samaritan after a teacher ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// of the law asked him: “Who is my neighbor?” The teacher knew what he was supposed to do, to love God and love his neighbor, but he asked Jesus that extra question to try Bible Story: The Good Samaritan Luke 10:25-37 to see if he really had to treat everyone that way. February 15 & 16 | 2nd-4th Jesus’ answer was to tell him a story about a guy who got Big Idea: Love others because they matter to God. beaten up and left on the side of the road. Two church leaders saw him, but they were too busy to care, and so they passed by on the other side of the road. The Memory Verse: “‘Jesus replied, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and Samaritan was different. He felt sorry for the man and he with all your soul. Love him with all your mind.’ This is the first and most important WEEK 3 took the time to bandage him up, take him to an inn to rest, commandment. And the second is like it. ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ and pay for his room! Matthew 22:37-39 NIrV Jesus doesn’t want us to do “just enough” to satisfy God, He wants us to actually care about those in need. Love—choosing to treat others the way you want to be treated. Life App: THINK ABOUT IT: 1. If you’re honest, have you ever looked at showing love like it’s an assignment? Bible Story Summary: We are created in God’s image and He has given us the 2. How does Jesus want us to look differently at capacity to love. Every time we choose to treat others the way we want to be treated, we showing love? show others a glimpse into the perfect love God has for each and every one of us. 3. How does this story show us that each person really matters to God? Luke 10:25-37. When Jesus told the Pharisee’s “Love your neighbor as you love yourself,” they shot back with another question. “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus went on to about what motivates you to show love. tell the story of the Good Samaritan. When faced with the decision to ignore an enemy THINK or have compassion, the Samaritan chose to set aside His differences and show love.

God wants us to love others because they matter to God. We won’t always get along with everyone we meet, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t deserving of God’s love. Through this story, we pray that kids will see that all people matter to God, and we should show His love to everyone we meet. DAY 2 Each and every person matters because he or she was made by God. Pray for the Read Psalm 139:17-18 kids who tend to have a hard time being loving and kind to others. Pray that God would change their hearts and open their eyes to a world in need of His love. Have you ever laid in bed and couldn’t go to sleep? Have you ever tried counting sheep? This verse is a pretty cool take on that idea. David is saying that God ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// cares about you so much that if you counted all His thoughts about you as you fell asleep, you’d still be counting when you woke up.

Some people just seem harder to love than others. But You really matter to God! Everyone does. He LOVES you, personally. He knows Tim ed e we are all made by God, in His image. Every person everything about you and He’s crazy about you! B matters to Him. That means that we are called to love The truth is people need to hear that they matter to God. And a great way everyone. But you don’t have to do it on your own. God to show them they matter is by treating them with love and compassion; can give you His love, even for those people in your life treating them the way you’d want to be treated. who are hard to get along with. Pray that God would help you to show love to the difficult people in your life. ASK God how you can show people they matter. DAY 3 HEY PARENTS Read Matthew 5:43-44 SIGN HERE! parent CUE: Jesus really challenged our idea of love with this idea: that we should love our enemies. It’s easy to say that, Have a parent sign your /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// but really difficult to actually do it. Loving others isn’t completed GodTime. always easy, especially when God calls us to love people who are different from us. Want to know what your child is learning at church? Download a free So why should we love our enemies, anyway? I mean, they sure don’t deserve it! But here’s the thing, none app called Parent Cue. This app is put Parent signature of us deserve God’s extravagant love. All of us mess out by The reThink Group who writes the up. All of us sin. But God loves us anyway. He gives curriculum we use in Uptown as a guide us grace and cares for us even though we can’t do to what our kids learn. anything to earn His love. Date Everyone is worthy of our love. Everyone matters Parent Cue has parenting articles, blogs, to God. Jesus came to show love to all of us. So, and ways you can live out your faith at in response, we can take our cue from His bold, courageous love and treat everyone around us with home. Week by week you will be given the love He’s already shown to us. cues so you can make the most of your Return for 5 Bible Bucks! time with your kids for God.

KNOW that God’s love for you is extravagant! at a GLANCE DAY 4 Bibles N Bucks Shopping: Read 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Kindergarten: February 15 & 16 1st grade: February 22 & 23 This verse is a great picture of what love is . . . and what love isn’t. When we put love into action, we show others that they’re important and that they matter. We put others 2nd grade: February 29 & March 1 first instead of focusing on our own needs. We treat others the way we would hope to 3rd grade: March 7 & 8 be treated. This Summer Read the verses again. This time, substituting your name every time it says Pathway Community Church is partnering with “love” or “it.” How did that feel? Did you feel like some of the sentences were SpringHill Day Camp for a week of fun for kids who have completed Kindergarten-4th grade. true of you? Did you feel like there were some that you need to work on? June 29-July 3 Wouldn’t it be great to say that the whole passage perfectly described you? Monday-Friday 9am-4pm Now look back at the verses and write in the names of people you know when they Registration begins February 14. come to mind. For example, if you know that your mom is always kind, you can write $175 for the first 100 kids to sign up. her name there. Use Promo code 20PATHWAYPAY175 Register at springhilldaycamps.com

THANK God for all of the loving people He has surrounded you with. Child’s Name: