March 2009 CMI  Newsletter

How should your church celebrate Easter? 

Many say "we celebrate Christ's Resurrection every Sunday" therefore, there is no need to do anything else.  Others celebrate Lent from Ash Wednesday through Palm Sunday, on to Easter morning.  Children's Ministry International (CMI) has a wonderful series entitled, "IT IS FINISHED" that allows your church or home to have as many as four, 45 minute lessons that cover all the major themes around Easter.

The major themes of Easter are: 

• Jesus' calling to go to Jerusalem

• His triumphant entry on a donkey to Jerusalem

• His last days in the temple

• His Betrayal

• The Last Supper

• Jesus' prayers and arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane

• His trial

• His time before Pilate

• His Crucifixion

• His Burial

• His Resurrection

• Jesus' Ascension to Heaven

That's a lot to cover in four weeks!  But many churches only have Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday to teach these concepts and modify the series to "fit" into their schedule.

Here are some other "extras" you'll find in the "IT IS FINISHED" booklet.

• Crafts to help our covenant children actually learn key verses

• colorful hold-up stories (not flannelboard).

• coloring book for the children that will reinforce everything they learn.

To help you make your choice this Easter, CMI is offering a 10% discount on the above items and anything else you may want to order over the next few months.  Use this code "EASTER09" when you order through our web page.  Don't delay, Easter will soon be upon us with the wonderful story of Christ taking our sins upon Himself, overcoming death and ascending to heaven to continually intercede in our behalf.

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CMI needs your help and prayers
for Mission Trip

Friends of Children's Ministry International,

HELP! Most of you know that one of Children's Ministry International's missions is to support worldwide missions.  CMI has been doing the children's program for  regional and international mission groups for a QUARTER CENTURY (since the mid-1980's).  Most of the programs have been for the missionary children of Mission to the World (the missionary arm of the PCA).  We have also done trips for Wycliffe Bible Translators, Arab World Ministries and Frontiers Missions.  The kids receive a quality, fun program while their parents are at important meetings.  The children, ages 3 to 12, learn Bible Memory verses, games and songs.  The many outcomes of these conferences includes allowing CMI to expand it's translation programs, of which we have one in Arabic and completed curriculum in Spanish, Swedish, Russian, Bulgarian, Czech and Turkish.  Most of these translation projects came out of such conferences.

This April we will be using CMI's Series B: Questions and Answers About God.  This popular series will ensure the children know all that our God is all knowing, all powerful, all seeing and ever present

When the parents see how much Scripture their children have learned and how much they have enjoyed learning it, they are naturally interested in getting CMI's "Bible Building Blocks of the Faith" curriculum in the language they are working with.  Missionaries use local nationals to ensure the translations are accurate.

This April, Mission to the World (MTW), has asked us to do the children's program for their Europe/Africa regional conference.  The  exact details of the European site and date cannot be given for security reasons, but 18 CMI teachers will be going to teach these precious missionary children for a week while their parents are in conference meetings.

As most of you know our teachers must raise the airfare  expenses to get over there .  Many of our teachers are in their late teens or early twenties and have limited means and contacts. We are expecting travel expenses to be around $20,000! 

Being a friend of this small ministry is where you can help.  Could you pray that our teachers will be in "good shape" to teach for a week, that they will be prepared and receive help to defray some of the travel costs?   CMI is a non-profit organization, therefore, your donation would be tax-deductable.

Please consider how you can make this trip to support missionaries in one of the "toughest" areas of the world possible.  Send your contributions to: 

CMI
2368 Main St. #3
Tucker, GA 30084

Note on the check's memo line, "April Mission trip".