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  • Welcome to the SONSHINER SPEEDway! The Sonshiners class is the name of our Sunday School class and is for children ages kindergarten through first grade. We are located at the Santa Clara First Baptist Church, 3111 Benton Street, Santa Clara, California, 95051. During our time together, we learn about Jesus through table activities, music, stories, weekly Bible dramas, crafts, and fellowship. If you live near Santa Clara California or come up for a visit, I hope you will drop by our church and see what we do in our class!

    Sincerely,

    Bill and Pat

     

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  • Sonshiners Weekly Schedule (Join us from 9:00 - 12:00)!!!
  • This past week we heard a true story about a time when a family showed kindess to their friend by building him a room that he could stay in when he was in town.  After the story, we read another special story about kindness -- "Mr. Bell's Fixit Shop".


    THIS PAST WEEK
    (February 12, 2012)


    9:00 am - 12:00 pm

    Do you like to get surprises? Do you like to be the one giving the suprise to someone else? This past week in the SPEEDway we heard a true story about a family that gave a big surprise to their friend Elisha. When Elisha would come to their town from time to time, he often stayed at their home. One day, this special family thought of a wonderful way to help Elisha and surprise him at the same time! Do you know what they did? Click here to find out!

    We also heard a story called, "Mr. Bell's Fixit Shop". This story was about a little girl whose doll was distroyed by the family dog. She was very sad about what happened and took it to Mr. Bell who owned a "fixit" shop. The problem was that it was time for the shop to close! That didn't stop Mr. Bell. He showed his love by staying open into the night to fix the little girl's doll. He knew how happy she would be if he spent a little of his time helping her out!

    God is always happy when we help other people. Helping others is called serving. When you see someone carrying a load of groceries in both hands, opening the door for that person would be a way of serving them. When a new child comes to your church or school, going over and offering to be that person's friend is also a way of serving others. Can you think of a time this past week when you offered to help a person who needed your help? See how many opportunities God gives you to serve others this week. Serving others can be lots of fun, and is also a wonderful way of pleasing and obeying God!

    Before group time, our Sonshiners decorated heart shaped doilies with markers, crayons and stickers to make their own Valentine decorations. These decorations could be given to friends and family as a way of saying "Happy Valentine's Day". Some of our Sonshiners listened to a special story in the listening center called "Helping Hands" about a child who learned different ways of showing love to others by serving. A puzzle of this week's Bible story was also available to put together during center time.

    This past week we learned a song to help us remember this week's Bible verse. The song was called, "Serve One Another In Love". We learned how to sign this song in American Sign Language as well. This week, see how many people you can serve!

    This past week we learned that God wants us to willingly help others. Helping others is called "serving". How many people can you find to serve this week?


    Before the story, Connor tried to see if it was easier getting dressed with his eyes open or blindfolded.  (He discovered that being able to see helped a lot!)

    This week in the art center, children made Valentines for their friends and family.


    Grace designs Valentine cards for her family.


    THIS COMING WEEK
    (February 19, 2012)

    Make sure to join us next week as we hear a story about a poor woman who was about to loose her house because she borrowed money from someone and was unable to pay it back! Find out what Elisha was able to do to help this poor woman out.

    Come to our Sonshiners class this coming Sunday as we learn more about Jesus and His love for us, and bring some friends if you can! (9:00 - 12:00).

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  • Do you have a special friend at school or in your neighborhood that you play with? Maybe you have several! Why not ask them to come with you this week to the Sonshiners Sunday School class? Pat and I would love to meet them! Bringing your friends to Sunday School is one way you can help them learn more about Jesus!
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    This past week in our class we had...

    Vincent, Grace, Nathan, and Connor!

    We're so glad you could come this week!

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  • THIS WEEK'S BIBLE VERSE SONG

    "Serve One Another In Love"

    Click HERE to view the song

    Click HERE to listen to our Bible verse song in MP3 format!!

    (Click HERE to find out how you can order our Sonshiners music CD which contains this song and 33 others!)

  • **UPCOMING GROUP LESSONS**

    (February 19)

    Elijah and the Oil Jars

    (February 26)

    WINTER QUARTER REVIEW


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  • THE BIBLE IN SONG CD!

    Do you enjoy the songs we sing in our Sunday school class (and post on this website)? If you do, you can now listen to them at home! I have digitally re-mastered the songs and have placed them on CD along with the musical trax to go with them! Now you can sing along with me as I sing the songs, or play the musical instrumentation and sing without the vocal demonstration!

    For more information on this CD, click here.

    IT MAKES A GREAT GIFT!

     
  • BOOKS ABOUT KINDNESS AND SERVING OTHERS

    •A Friend Is One Who Helps (By Ruth Shannon Odor)
    •Puff The Uppity Ant (By Ethel Barret)
    •The Big Enough Helper (By Nancy Hall)
    •Good Sam (Jesus' Story of the Good Samaritan) (By Glenda Palmer)
    •Mr. Bell's Fixit Shop (By Ronne Peltzman)
    •Growing Up (By Ruth Shannon Odor)
    •Doing Right Makes Me Happy (By Cara Lynn Phillips)
    •Happy Times With The Lollipop Dragon (By Henrietta D. Gambill)
    *A Very Special Critter (By Gina and Mercer Mayer)
    *Just For You (By Mercer Mayer)

    •Books with a * beside them are books you can find at your local library.

    Many of these books can be found at your local Christian book store. If you can't find them there, you may be able to find them on the web at Amazon. com. If books are marked with a "*", they may often be found in your local library.

    Click here to go to Amazon.com

    Stories You Can Find Online - Click on the links below!

    A Gift For Mother (Click Here To Read It For Yourself!)

    A Love Like Muffie's (Click Here To Read It For Yourself!)

    Hidden Sweetness (Click Here To Read It For Yourself!)

    COLORING PICTURES ONLINE

    Jesus and the Children

    The Good Samaritan

    Showing Kindness

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    Pat and I would love to hear from those of you who visit our web page! If you would like to write us or just say a simple "hello", PLEASE do so. Feel free to give us new ideas of things you would like to see on our sight!

    To write us, just click here!---> sonshinersfbc@yahoo.com

    This page is updated weekly! Join us each week to find out what we do in our class!

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