The Clubhouse Wire is a ministry of First Kids, and is designed to update families on what content students are learning in Clubhouse and Clubhouse Connect. Inside this tool, parents will find a thought from the children’s pastor, key learning points to review throughout the week, a calendar of upcoming events and First Kids needs, the week’s memory verse, a family devotional, and a fun family activity or adventure to explore together. For more information, please contact Pastor Erika Montgomery at:

First Assembly of God Walla Walla - 509.525.2743 or erika@firstassemblyww.com2013December 29

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This week’s focus: Moses in the Bulrushes - Exodus 1 & 2

For the Parents

Pinewood Derby Prep begins Wed, January 8th!

It’s been a few years, but we are excited to continue a First Assembly tradition-Pinewood Derby! If the Pinewood Derby is new to you, here’s an explanation of what it is. Pine blocks are carved into car bodies, painted, made to be the same weight, and then raced in brackets on a track. Prizes are awarded for speed and design. This is a memorable event for parents and children to participate in together, and we are opening up the races this year to teens and adults to make it even more fun for the whole family!

Please order your car kits this week, so we have a better idea as to how many kits to purchase. Kids have a choice of 4 different body styles which have already been roughly cut out. These kits cost $8 each and include the paint, weights, tires, and graphite to make them complete racers. Adults have the option to purchase the plain block at $6 to create their own unique design or can purchase one of the roughly cut kits as well.

We have many volunteers who will begin helping the kids design their cars on Wednesday, January 8 at 7 pm. Families may take the cars home during the week to work at home, but are more than welcome to leave the cars at the church in storage, too. There will be plenty of time to help every child complete a car at the church in the months of January and February. Parents are

very welcome to come and work with their child on Wednesdays!

Race day will be March 1 at 10 am. Racers will be able to preregister their cars on Wednesday, February 26. Last minute registration and final weigh in will begin at 9:30 am on the morning of March 1.

Please sign up this week for Pinewood Derby either in the Clubhouse, church office, or online under the resources tab at www.firstassemblyww.com.

SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE!

inside:Exodus 1 & 2 [excerpts] NIrV 2Memory Verse 3Calendar 3Family devotional 4

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Exodus 1 & 2

1:1Here are the names of Israel’s children who went to Egypt with Jacob. Each one went with his family.

2 Jacob’s sons were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, 4 Dan, Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5 The total number of Jacob’s children and grandchildren was 70. Joseph was already in Egypt.

6 Joseph and all of his brothers died. So did all of their children.

7 The people of Israel had many children. They greatly increased their numbers. There were so many of them that they filled the land.

8 Then a new king came to power in Egypt. He didn’t know anything about Joseph.

9 “Look,” he said to his people. “The Israelites are far too many for us. 10 Come. We must deal with them carefully. If we don’t, they will increase their numbers even more. Then if war breaks out, they’ll join our enemies. They’ll fight against us and leave the country.”

11 So the Egyptians put slave drivers over the people of Israel. The slave drivers beat them down and made them work hard. The Israelites built the cities of Pithom and Rameses so Pharaoh could store things there.

12 But the more the slave drivers beat them down, the more the Israelites increased their numbers and spread out. So the Egyptians became afraid of them. 13 They made them work hard. They didn’t show them any pity. 14 They made them suffer with hard labor. They forced them to work with bricks and mud. And they made them

do all kinds of work in the fields. The Egyptians didn’t show them any pity at all. They made them work very hard.

15 There were two Hebrew women named Shiphrah and Puah. They helped other women who were having babies. The king of Egypt spoke to them. He said, 16 “You are the ones who help the other Hebrew women. Watch them when they get into a sitting position to have their babies. Kill the boys. Let the girls live.”

17 But Shiphrah and Puah had respect for God. They didn’t do what the king of Egypt had told them to do. They let the boys live.

18 Then the king of Egypt sent for the women. He asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”

19 The women answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like the women of Egypt. They are strong. They have their babies before we get there.”

20 So God was kind to Shiphrah and Puah. And the people of Israel increased their numbers more and more. 21 Shiphrah and Puah had respect for God. So he gave them families of their own.

22 Then Pharaoh gave an order to all of his people. He said, “You must throw every baby boy into the Nile River. But let every baby girl live.”

2:1A man and a woman from the tribe of Levi got married. 2 She became pregnant and had a son by him. She saw that her baby was a fine child. So she hid him for three months.

3 After that, she couldn’t hide him any longer. So she got a basket that was made out of the stems of tall grass. She coated it with tar. Then she placed the child in it. She

put the basket in the tall grass that grew along the bank of the Nile River. 4 The child’s sister wasn’t very far away. She wanted to see what would happen to him.

5 Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile River to take a bath. Her attendants were walking along the bank of the river. She saw the basket in the tall grass. So she sent her female slave to get it.

6 When she opened it, she saw the baby. He was crying. She felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.

7 Then his sister spoke to Pharaoh’s daughter. She asked, “Do you want me to go and get one of the Hebrew women? She could nurse the baby for you.”

8 “Yes. Go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother.

9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby. Nurse him for me. I’ll pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.

10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter. And he became her son. She named him Moses. She said, “I pulled him out of the water.”

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Sunday mornings:

10:30 - 12:00Clubhouse (age 3 - 5th grade)

Sunday mornings:

9:30-10:15 Sunday School

10:30 - 12:00Clubhouse (age 3 - 5th grade)

Sunday mornings:

9:30-10:15Sunday School

10:30 - 12:00Clubhouse (age 3 - 5th grade)

EventsWatch for upcoming events here each week!

1Happy New Year!No Wednesday Night groups

2Sunday School begins @ 9:30

1Pinewood Derby 10 am with snack shack fundraiser

EventsWatch for upcoming events here each week!

8Pinewood Derby prep begins7 pm (after the Bible lesson)SCHOLARSHIPS available!

26Preregistration for Pinewood Derby at 7 pm

this week’s memory verse:

You are my hiding place; you protect me from trouble. You surround me with songs of victory.

Psalm 32:7

Sunday School

begins again

February 2 @ 9:30 am

Willing to teach or assist

in a class?

See Pastor Erika for more

details.

Family ResolutionsMost of us come up with personal resolutions at the beginning of the year, but how about coming up with some goals for the new year as a family.

To help your little ones create family resolutions for 2014, creat a few ideas ahead of time and write them on a piece of posterboard. Then, read them together. Ask if there are any more ideas for resolutions for the New Year. Then, vote as a family on which one of two resolutions you’re going to try to achieve this year.

Ideas:-Game night 1x/mo-Kids make dinner 1x/wk-Family walks after dinner-Media fast-Read __ books together this year

Help other families by adding your resolution on the First Kids FB page this week!

WE WANT YOU!Send your clean riddle or joke to Pastor Erika, and it might appear right here in an upcoming Clubhouse Wire!

Send jokes to:erika@firstassemblyww.com

Parents!“LIKE” our facebook page at facebook.com/wwfirstkids for up to the minute information about what’s happening in First Kids!

For the family...Remember how Joseph became second in command in Egypt and helped save the land during famine? Then, he brought his whole family to live where it was safe? Many years later, Joseph and his brothers great great, etc. grandkids (we’ll call them the Israelites) were still living in Egypt, but the Pharaoh had never heard of how great a leader Joseph was, so he had no respect for the Israelites and became very afraid of them.

The Israelites had become the Egyptians’ slaves, but were still being blessed by God and having large families. There were a lot of Israelites. So many that Pharaoh worried they would take over his kingdom, so he worked them even harder and came up with a plan. He ordered that all baby boys were supposed to be thrown in the Nile River, so they couldn’t grow up and take over the country or have new families! Imagine how horrible that was!

God had a plan to deliver his children out of Egypt and was going to give them their own land, but He needed a leader. He had chosen a baby named Moses.

When Moses was born, his mother hid him for three months in her house, but if you have a little brother or sister, you know it’s very hard to hide babies! So she came up with a plan, too. Moses’ mother made a basket out of papyrus and covered it in tar so it would float in water. Then, she put baby Moses in the basket and set him in the tall grass of the Nile

River. His sister, Miriam watched the basket for her mother.

Pharaoh's daughter came out to take a bath in the river and saw the basket in the tall grass. When she opened it, she was surprised to see a baby boy-a Hebrew baby boy that should have been thrown in the river. She felt sorry for him.

Just then, Moses’ sister, Miriam, came out from the bushes and was very brave! She asked the princess if she should go get a Hebrew woman to take care of the baby for her while he was little. The princess said yes.

It was a miracle! Moses was saved! Miriam went to get her mother and tell her the good news, that she would be able to take care of Moses for the princess! When Moses was older, the princess adopted him and he became part of Pharaoh’s family.

God had saved Moses so he could grow up to save the Israelites from Pharaoh's harsh treatment and bless them with their own land that was promised to Abraham.

I hope you and your family see many blessings as you go into the new year. You have made 2013 a very special year for me!Know that I love you and Jesus loves you! Have a great week! -Pastor Erika