Daddy Date Day

KID'S CONFERENCE

The Red Culture DREAM conference is coming to Des Moines on Feb 24-25. The conference is for children 4th-6th grade and will be $80 a person. This will include: One night at the Ramada Tropics Resort, 3 meals, t-shirt, indoor water park, great service and live music. This will be a great time for children to get to know each other and their God on a deeper level.

Becoming Something Great

“Betty Is-Not-A-Crock” taught us another great recipe this week as she explained to the children that God has created us to become great. She made  play dough because we can create great things out of a lump of clay.


Playdough Recipe:

Ingredients:
1 cup salt
1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup water
2 Tablespoons oil
Ziploc bags
A few drops of food coloring
Directions:1. Mix all ingredients very well and store in plastic bag or covered jar.

Recipe from India

This quarter we are having a special guest in The Filling Station by the name of “Betty Is-Not-A-Crock” She is teach a special recipe each week as she shares her Recipes for Life. This week she talked to us about India and shared a special recipe from there.

Bread Pakoda



Ingredients:
4-5 Bread Slices
1cup Gram Flour (Besan)
1/4th tsp turmeric powder
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp Ajwain
Red chili powder to taste
1/4th tsp Garam Masala powder
Water for batter
Oil for frying


How to make bread pakoda :• Cut Bread slices into desired shapes (like triangle, rectangle etc.)
• In a bowl add gram flour salt, chili powder, garam masala, ajwain and mix it.
• Now by pouring little water at a time make a smooth batter (neither too thick nor too lose)
• Heat oil in a kadhai.
• Dip bread piece in the batter and fry till crisp on medium flame.
• Serve bread pakora hot with green chutney and tomato sauce.

Set you're Children on the Right Path

Set you’re Children on the Right Path: On Jan. 10th, we will start a new Wednesday night class dedicated to assisting parents in their God-given responsibility to spiritually leading their children daily down a spiritual path toward a successful future with God. This will be 1 seven-week class taught by Pastor Kevin.



As a Children’s Pastor, I have committed the last 21 years not just to reach children for Christ, but even more importantly, assisting parents in raising their children for God.


Proverbs 22:6 says, “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” This is not the job of a paid church staff member … it is the responsibility of the parent. Children and Youth Pastors pay a important role in the spiritual growth of the of children; but that role primarily is supporting, equipping, and assisting parents in the enjoyable, but sometimes challenging, path.


The “Set You’re Children on the Right Path” is not another child discipline class or a magic formula to raise perfect kids, it is a class that will give parents the tools to begin to direct their children onto a path of spiritual success.

Girls Ministry Skate Day

CHOCOLATE SAUERKRAUT CUPCAKES

This quarter we will be having a special guest in The Filling Station by the name of “Betty Is-Not-A-Crock” She will teach a special recipe each week as she shares her Recipes for Life. This week she talked to us about how God uses odd things to do great things, her recipe this week was Chocolate Sauerkraut Cupcakes.

Give it a try. For more information on this week’s lesson click

Chocolate Sauerkraut Cupcake
Ingredients

• 3/4 cup drained and chopped sauerkraut
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
• 2/3 cup butter
• 1 3/4 cups packed light brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan. Sift cocoa, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together and set aside. In a separate small bowl, combine buttermilk with sauerkraut and set aside.

2. In a large bowl, cream butter, brown sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat in. Add flour mixture alternately with sauerkraut mixture. Beat only until blended.

3. Pour batter into 9x13 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 45 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean. Cool cake and frost with your favorite chocolate frosting.

WHAT IS ALL THE HUBBUB?

The Christmas Season is upon us and people are running hither and fither. This year stores even started black Friday sales on Thursday. The lights are going up all over town and the radio stations are changing over to the Christmas classics. So what is Christmas? I know the pad Christian answer, to celebrate our Saviors birth, but really what is it for? If you look back at Jewish feasts (Holidays) you will see a common theme and it is not to celebrate as much as it is to teach.
Christmas is our opportunity to pass down traditions that teach the next generation the truth of why Jesus our Savior came to this world. Our family has many Christmas traditions, ones that we started a few years ago that my oldest son came up with. We have a nativity that we place under the tree before any of the gifts. The key to the placing is that the manger is empty. I take baby Jesus and place Him in one of four identically wrapped boxes, one for each person of our family. On Christmas morning as we sit around the tree each person picks out one of those four boxes before any other gifts are opened. I take the last of the four to eliminate the appearance of cheating. We at that point talk about how the greatest gift ever given is Jesus. Each person opens their package and the one with Jesus inside is given the privilege of opening the first of the other gifts.

This is only one of our traditions. I know many of you too have Christmas traditions that focus on Jesus. Please share them with me at KevinUmphress@BereanAG.com so I can post them for others to see.

Giant Haystack 2011

Held at Pleasant Hill Hyvee last Friday. Wonderful community event with around 1300 people there. Great group of volunteers to help too.