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From: Chris Cochrun <chris@tfcconnection.org>
To: Leni Heckman <leniheckman@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Beginning Well - "I've never read the Bible before ok!"
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:13:35 -0500
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Thanks so much Leni! It's a joy to help them understand who they are! Been having some awesome conversations with them!
Chris
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Leni Heckman <leniheckman@yahoo.com> writes:
I love this Chris!! When I work with teenagers, I tell them all the time that their job is to figure out who
they are. I am not always able to use scripture, but sometimes I can. It is a very important time and
parents don't always like teens because they are pushing boundaries and questioning things. But that
is what they are supposed to be doing. Parents can know they have done a good job if this is
happening to a normal degree.
Keep up the great work! (LOVE that pic of Josiah with the kitty--he looks fierce!)
Leni
On Tuesday, October 12, 2021, 02:03:29 PM MDT, Chris Cochrun <chris@tfcconnection.org> wrote:
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Beginning Well
“I’ve never read the Bible before ok!”
I know that more often than I care to admit I complain about how our world is going to poop, but if
I just stopped and read scripture for a more often, I think I'd see more of God's answers for all of
the worlds problems, and guess where it's found? That's right, His Word. This year we've been
diving very hard into Identity and Purpose in our lessons. And the best place to learn about
ourselves is diving into God's word to see how and why He made us! That's the strange part about
it, it means in order for us to know ourselves enough, we have to know God well! We'll be reading
Genesis 1-3 all year. Slowly making our way through it as we try to understand the complex ideas
of our existence on this planet.
Reading Genesis though, we have some kids who've never even read a Bible at all before. "What
are verses again?" "It's the ones with the little numbers next to them!" "I've never read a Bible
before ok!?"
We laughed and had a good time, but how fun it is to get to help someone read the Bible for the
first time! And to think, she'll be digging into a hard topic with us like Identity and Purpose! I'm
beginning to think that this year is for those kids. Those kids who have never really read the Bible
before, or they've never been in a church before, or they've heard about it but just never tried
going to church or even really listening to what God wants to tell them. I have a book on my desk
titled Beginning Well by Gordon T. Smith. It's all about the first steps of a new Christian and how
important those first steps are. As I've been re-reading it from time to time, I was thinking of my
junior high group. Many of them, are new to Christian things as a whole, they've not been around
it much at all in their lives. I think this will be an incredible opportunity for our lesson theme.
Identity and Purpose. That's a big idea, it's also a vague idea, and a powerful one. People all over
the world want answers to questions that we plan to deal with this year. Who am I and Why am I
here? Is marriage still relevant? And a lot more! The first one we dealt with was, "Who am I and
Why am I here". Have you ever had that thought? I'm sure you have, I have too, A LOT! That's why
we are dealing with those questions this year. And reading Genesis is the best place to do that! It
deals with all of those questions and more! Where else would one go to see how God intended
things to be?! On top of that, Genesis is so rich, it's such a perfect tutorial for how to read the Bible!
Those first 3 chapters are filled with the things you'll see all over scripture, stories, repetition,
poetry, and tough topics!
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The Junior High group has just been a ton of fun! We have played goofy games, and some
great talks, and so much more! Please pray for these faces and more! That they are
getting to know the Lord well this year!
It's our prayer that students who really wish to know more about the world around them will see
answers in God's Word that change their entire outlook on life. It's my prayer that the kids who
have never read the Bible before will BEGIN WELL. They'll start at the beginning, understand where
they've come from, why their here, and they'll want others to know that as well. It's my prayer too
that as we use Genesis to help us answer those questions, students at every level will learn how to
read the Bible in a way that will equip them to do it for the rest of their lives!
My junior high group has mostly been these junior high girls who have hardly read the Bible
before. It's kind of scary to think that most of our young minds in our schools are in the same boat.
A vast majority of them just have never really needed to. Pray for them. Pray for the girls in my
group who've admitted they've never read a Bible before, pray that they'll find some very
interesting and compelling things in there! Pray that they'll want others to read along with them as
well!
Some Events Coming Up
TFC has had a tough time getting certain events back up and running after COVID forced us to stop
bringing the groups together. Luckily, we are working hard at getting things back to normal! After
this summer of getting to do mission trip and camp, we'll be do TFC-wide 180 Encounters again.
These 180 Encounters are like a giant TFC night where all the groups come together and get to
hear from one of the high school leaders and how God has been changing and challenging them.
It's a really cool thing to watch high schoolers take their walk with Christ so seriously that they in
turn want to share with their peers and kids younger than them about Jesus. Pray for the 180 group
who've been planning this first Encounter on the 24th!
We'll also be getting to do Leadership Retreat again this year at the end of October! The theme is
WORD: what, why, and how. I'll have to be honest in that I'm not entirely sure what that all means
since I'm not on the team planning it, but I'm confident in our crew that it's linked to our theme this
year and drawing our leaders deeper into the Word of God. Pray that this even has a profound
impact on our high school leaders as they sacrifice a weekend to dig in deep. God has always been
so good to us in this event. It really is a breath of fresh air for our high schoolers who've been so
busy!
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We've enjoyed a lot of things this last month! Kittens, football and even new furniture covers! Josiah
and Luke sure love playing with our new kitten and sometimes each other!
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