The latest from Coralville

It was another COLD winter evening in Iowa.

As JAM Kids entered the church,
they could see that the theme of the day was LOVE.

Allison and Zach find their charts and nametags.

The JAM Kids room is brightly decorated.

The first thing we do is add stickers to our chart.
This month, the word LOVE was written on the sign post.
One sticker shows the book of the day. "Green Eggs and Ham"
The other sticker is the scripture of the day.
Our February scripture is from Romans 12: 9.
Let love be genuine. Hate what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Elizabeth

Jack

Carolyn with Zach and Allison

Grant and Gavin work on Valentine Bears. "Love Bears All Things"

Grace C

One way that we were able to show LOVE this evening was by
creating messages that have now been sent to a young man
named Peter Buck. Peter was deployed
to Afghanistan early in January as a Navy and Marine medic.
He will certainly appreciate the messages sent to him by the JAM Kids.
Here are some of the messages.

The Dr. Seuss story for the evening was "Green Eggs and Ham."

We divided into two groups.
One group read the part of Sam-I-Am
And the other group read the reply.

Sam is kind of an irritating fellow. He keeps insisting that our
hero should try green eggs and ham. He will not take “no” for
an answer! “I will not try them, Sam-I-am!”

If we really get to know others on the inside, we are likely to find something unexpected. Jesus serves as our example in so stories places from the Bible. The first men called by Jesus to be disciples were unlikely fishermen. He called to Zaccheus to come down from the tree and to spend time with him. Jesus spent time with the woman at the well and her life was changed. Jesus could see into the hearts of others and to him, all were worthy to be called Children of God.
Jesus was our finest model of LOVE.

As another part of the object lesson, we looked inside of geodes.
The outside is plain and ordinary.
The inside of a geode sparkles!
If we allow ourselves to look beyond
the outer shell, we can find something wonderful.