Children’s Quizzing is a program developed out of the Nazarene denomination, open to ANY group or church that wants to disciple their children in God’s Word.
The children must be between the ages of 6-12, therefore that generally means grades 1-6th.
We are now into a 6-year cycle that includes these books of the Bible:
2007-2008 Genesis
2008-2009 Exodus (WORLD QUIZ)
2009-2010 I and II Samuel
2010-2011 Joshua/Judges (REGIONAL QUIZ)
2011-2012 Matthew
2012-2013 Acts (WORLD QUIZ)
| January 19 |
North - Lynden Nazarene |
| January 19 |
South - Woodland Christian Church |
| February 16 |
ALL - Puyallup Nazarene |
| March 15 |
ALL - Seattle Aurora Nazarene |
| April 19 |
ALL - FINALS - Vancouver Hillcrest |
Click here to visit the WAPAC Children's Quizzing Program website.
Contact Tammy Birnel, Children's Quizzing Coordinator, for more information.
CHAIRMAN WES' WISDOM
Easter 2008 reflections:
Our estimated attendance for Easter Sunday was:
SDMI 19,756
Am 21,608
Four churches exceeded the 1,000 in attendance:
Gold Creek, 3321
Puyallup 2473
Liberty Bible 2200
Olympia 1970
Four churches had between 500 and 1,000
Ridgefield 867
Seattle Aurora 650
Hillcrest 540
Van. Real Life 511
Most of our churches were full on Easter Sunday. Everybody had great days and we can congratulate all on their fine attendances.
Thanks for all who reported.
Friend,
Wes Smith
District SDMI Chair
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MARCH NEWS
Bonney Lake: 16 person choir performed the Cantata "Then Came the Morning" God truly blessed them and the audience for a great Easter Sunday.
Camas: We are so excited about beginning our Love and Respect Marriage Seminar on Wednesday evening. We are actually averaging more on these nights than in our Sunday School on Sunday and have many people from the community attending. Their children are attending Wednesday evening classes and we are planning to follow up with each family. This program will continue through April. Easter was a blessed event at Camas Nazarene. Over 150 people joined us for a wonderful breakfast and we had 184 in our Easter service. The choir presented the cantata "There is Room at the Cross for You." We followed with the Northwest version of an Easter Egg Hunt (indoors due to rain!) for about 40 children. It was a terrific way to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord!
Federal Way: We had 290 children register and attend our annual EGGstravaganza Easter Egg Outreach! From these we had 41 families state that they would like to learn more about our Church and its ministries and or would like to learn more about Jesus Christ! Yea God! We are following up with all that indicated interest with letters, calls and visits with the prayer that many will begin the journey of faith, salvation and a new life of radical discipleship to Jesus Christ!
Gold Creek and Lynnwood: These two churches celebrated over 70 baptisms on Easter Sunday.
Highland Park: The two Highland Park churches (American & Hispanic) joined together for a combined worship service yesterday. It was an amazing morning of celebration through worship, baptisms, and God’s word. We followed the service with a tasty potluck.
Kent First: Attendance 458 Christ is on the Throne at Kent Nazarene!
Lakewood New Hope: On Wednesday of Passion Week, Rachel Goldstein of Chosen People Ministries presented the “Messiah in the Passover”, explaining the symbolism of each item used in the Jewish Seder dinner and its significance in the Christian world. On Good Friday, we again presented the Living Lord’s Supper, narrated by Pastor Ron. We had an Easter Egg hunting the back yard for the neighborhood children on Saturday. Besides the candies that they received in the Easter eggs, each child went away with a large Easter basket filled with candies and gifts. Then on Easter Sunday, we had a great service, where the SS attendance was 90 and the AM Worship attendance was 204.
Lakewood Samoan: There is no big difference in numbers, but just want to add the praise on Easter Sunday, was a great day of praise and worship, and one soul accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. Praise God!!
Maple Valley: Their new Pastor, Charlie Cox, reported a great Easter Sunday, with the anointing of God - 64 in attendance.
Port Orchard: We hosted a Quarterly Regional Worship service that included 4 churches on the Peninsula and partnered with two other churches for a 3 day Worship Conference that raised money for an orphanage in India. Our people continue to let God transform them individually, and the corporate body is being blessed with an amazing outpouring of God’s heart because of it.
Seattle Aurora: We had 650 in attendance. We baptized 6.
Stevenson: New Name “The Bridge.” I am happy to report that Easter Sunday was a huge success. We really saw God at work as we had 110 people at our first preview service. What a blessing. The feedback has been extremely positive. We are sure God's presence was felt as we came together and worshiped. There were so many new faces in the crowd and that was the most pleasing thing of all. The kids had a blast in our children's program and we are excited to see what He does for our second preview service scheduled for April 20th. Thanks and keep praying for us, Chad
Tacoma First: We started off the month with a Dirty Job’s Sunday as we took Jesus’ message from John 13 to be servants of one another literally. Twenty-five of us when out and picked-up about 10 bags of garbage from along the streets of our immediate neighborhood, and raked over 20 bags of leaves from one city block alone. Many from the neighborhood were surprised and appreciative that we would do such an act of service and love to their neighborhood. Then, what an amazing weekend Easter was! We held our 3rd Annual Community Easter Egg Hunt at Whitman School, just two blocks from our church. We had close to 6,000 eggs for the 100-125 children to gather. Talk about disappearing fast!! Then on Easter Sunday, we were praying for 125 to be in attendance, and God blessed us with 175!!! Just as importantly, we had over twenty stand to receive Christ as their Lord and Savior, and now have five of them involved in a new Christian’s class that began on March 30th. PTL!!
Vancouver Fourth Plain: Off to a great start with two new part time staffers. Ryon Wright is our new Youth Pastor and he is already growing a new group of young people. They had a great time in Puyallup last week. Paula Johnson is the new Children’s Pastor and kicked off her minister with over 50 kids at the Easter Egg hunt. Church is gearing up for a great summer. Had a tremendous Easter service with music minister Ken Riggan.
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Professional Mentoring Program for Young Adults
Announcing Breckenridge '08 - a premier gathering of future leaders to learn, grow, and network. This event for young adults offers mentoring to connect young adults with an established, successful Nazarene in the same career choice; time to form relationships with other young adults and mentors; time to hear and respond to God's voice in the beauty of the Rocky Mountains.
To learn more about the event click here. To nominate a young adult to participate in Breckenridge '08, click here.
Questions: Linda Hardin at 800-221-6317 ext 2257, or email breckenridge08@nazarene.org. Please join us in praying for this event, the young adult participants, and the mentors.
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Prime Time Centennial Celebration
September 30 - October 3, 2008
We are anticipating an exciting time at the Kansas City Prime Time Centennial Celebration Retreat. Jim Diehl, Stan Toler, Dan Copp will be the keynote speakers. The Toler brothers and some surprise musicians will provide our music. For a brochure, choose the prime time for seniors button at amc.nazarene.org.
Email primetime@nazarene.org, or call 800-221-6317.
Click here for a printable registration form.
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APRIL REPORTS DUE April 28
Please have your next report in by APR 28. Please report the number of people on your Responsibility List, the total average in SDMI (Sunday School and Discipleship classes) and your average in the morning worship services and of course all the exciting news you haves. You can report by email: lowlyle2@aol.com; Fax 360-892-5488; or phone 360-892-2997. “Just do it!” Thanks. We do appreciate all you do. Your report is as important as anyone else’s and together we all win.
March 2008 - Top Ten Stats
| Sunday School and Discipleship Ministries International (SDMI) |
| 1 |
Gold Creek |
2181 |
| 2 |
Olympia Mountain View |
746 |
| 3 |
Puyallup |
598 |
| 4 |
Ridgefield |
376 |
| 5 |
Vancouver Hillcrest |
283 |
| 6 |
Real Life |
263 |
| 7 |
Oak Harbor |
250 |
| 8 |
Longview |
225 |
| 9 |
Kirkland Chinese |
207 |
| 10 |
Kent |
190 |
| AM WORSHIP |
| 1 |
Gold Creek |
2181 |
| 2 |
Puyallup |
1430 |
| 3 |
Olympia Mountain View |
784 |
| 4 |
Liberty Bible |
740 |
| 5 |
Ridgefield |
614 |
| 6 |
Seattle Aurora |
459 |
| 7 |
Kent First |
447 |
| 8 |
Vancouver Hillcrest |
396 |
| 9 |
Oak Harbor |
350 |
| 10 |
Centralia |
345 |
PERCENTAGE GAIN OVER LAST YEAR SDMI (SUNDAY SCHOOL)
|
| 1 |
Kirkland Chinese |
728% |
| 2 |
Castle Rock |
108% |
| 3 |
Ridgefield |
49% |
| 4 |
Olympia Mountain View |
45% |
| 5 |
Gig Harbor |
40% |
| 6 |
Oak Harbor |
39% |
| 7 |
Randle |
36% |
| 8 |
Fourth Plain |
32% |
| 9 |
Vancouver Real Life |
30% |
| 10 |
Port Orchard
Tacoma First
|
29% |
NUMERICAL GAIN OVER LAST YEAR SDMI (SUNDAY SCHOOL) |
| 1 |
Gold Creek |
292 |
| 2 |
Olympia Mountain View |
232 |
| 3 |
Kirkland Chinese |
182 |
| 4 |
Ridgefield |
123 |
| 5 |
Oak Harbor |
70 |
| 6 |
Real Life |
61 |
| 7 |
Port Orchard |
35 |
| 8 |
Vancouver Fourth Plain |
31 |
| 9 |
Camas |
29 |
| 10 |
Longview |
24 |
As reported by Rev. Lyle Coblentz
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