Educational Director’s Report

March 2001

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ince taking over as Educational Director I have been in the process of inquiring about Sunday School material for our teachers however, since we are unsure as to how many people we will have in each class I am waiting until we are settled into our new building before ordering. Right now Bill Robinette is doing his own lessons to match the sermon theme for the adults. Amber Nordin is teaching the toddlers, and Leona Kelley prepares a class for the 4th-6th graders. At this time we have no youth attending Sunday School.

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or the month of March we will be having Missionary Moments during the service to remember past and present missionaries in the field. Please remember to pray for all missionaries as they help others hear the message of Christ and respond in faith to His salvation.

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y future goals are to prepare Sunday School roles so we can start keeping track of our attendance and contacts, and to organize a Sunday night Bible Study, so if anyone has any suggestions feel free to contact me at kjam@gateway.net.

Sincerely,
Jeff Robinette

BIBLICAL ILLITERACY

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hat is it hat about 92 percent of Americans own at least one of, and that two-thirds of Americans say it holds the answer to the basic questions of life-but fewer than half of these same Americans cannot answer the simplest question about?

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he answer, of course, is the Bible. David Gibson, in the Washington Post’s “Religion News Service”(Dec. 9, 2000) quoted Pastor Andy Dzurovick: “Biblical illiteracy is rampant even though so many people seem to be getting into the Word. The Bible is the best selling, least-read and least-understood book. … It’s the real dumbing down of America, in that sense.”

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ow bad is it? One Gallup survey shows that fewer than half of Americans can name the first book in the Bible, only one-third know who delivered the Sermon on the Mount (many named Billy Graham, not Jesus), and one-quarter do not know what is celebrated on Easter.

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evertheless, Gibson noted that while at least 20 million Bibles are sold each year, in addition to tens of millions that are distributed free, Bible reading is declining. Last month, another Gallup poll showed that the number of people who read the Bible at least occasionally has dropped to 59 percent from 73 percent in the 1980’s. …God says: “The days are coming, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I will send a famine through the land-not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord” (Amos 8:11).

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s Bible reading and study important?

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onsider: All of the issues and concerns of life are addressed in God’s Word. Every problem that man faces has a solution to be found in God’s Word. Every situation that confronts man is addressed in God’s Word.

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f you haven’t been attending Sunday School you have been missing an opportunity to hear what the author of life says about life. Join us each Sunday as we read and study “The Word of Life”, the Bible, together.