This week is an amazing chance to watch kids in action and it is completely God's work! He has brought many people together to offer this amazing experience at Nativity! ReNew is about hope, opportunity, and service - kids will serve their community and demonstrate that being green can be easy, faithful, and fun!

We are spending this week diving deep into the "Parable of the Sower," found in Mark 4: 1-9. Each day is spent on another aspect of the parable. By asking eco-questions and spiritual questions every day we aim to grow in our faith in God.

Check our daily "ReNew News" and read about what we have been doing! This is our daily newsletter to let you know more about what is happening each day. Included is information about the daily theme, our Missions project, what the activities were, lyrics to songs, and more. Please make sure you check them out. Our prayer is that you will find time to have conversations with your child(ren) about what they have learned about in the mornings and thus continuing the faith growth in your homes beyond our week of VBS.

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This year we have two great water mission projects we are going to work on.

Each morning, we will be doing a "noisy" offering. The money that we raise will go towards the LWR Fill the Well campaign. This is a project through Lutheran World Relief where they are raising 1 million dollars for programs that will bring plentiful water to the world's poorest people. Check it out at www.lwr.org/water.

We will also be collecting water bottles for Hearts with Hands. In order to do the best for our environment, it is important to not use these plastic bottles, as they either end up in a landfill or use energy to recycle. We will be encouraging the children over the week to use reusable bottles as much as possible. That being said, we will be collecting bottles of water for this organization! They will send the water to disaster areas, where clean drinking water is not readily available. Currently resources are being sent to Nashville for those who suffered loss from the recent floods. Check it out at www.heartswithhands.org

Watermark will be with us during the week. We are excited to have this group of four young adults join us this week to help lead our music. They are an international ministry team that has traveled throughout Denmark, Estonia, and the United States. We will be able to enjoy their music each day as we worship God! There will be drums, guitars, keyboard…. What more can you ask for? Check out more information about the team at www.youthencounter.org/Default.aspx?tabid=518

This week is possible with God's and your support! By your donations of time, talents, and treasure we are able to pull all the small pieces together! THANK YOU!!!!
To help us be good stewards of God's Amazing Creation, we are using less paper in communication between the church and home and will utilize the website and email.

Your VBS team: Andra Nus, Emily Propst, and Amy Phillips

Contact us through Amy at aphillips@nativity.ws or 684-0352.