Sunday School Exams

A great big hand for all the children who sat the New Zealand Sunday School Union exams today. The children arrived around 8.30am buzzing ready to sit. A positive vibe was in the air, no doubt the Lord delighted in all children spending time in His word to prepare. Well done kids, studying God's word certainly pleases our Lord. Your commitment to study and prepare yourselves He notices. Pray that you all get the results you aimed for and that in all things, regardless of your placing - God will be given all the glory. Work hard this week, remember Abraham, Caleb, Joshua, Naomi, Ruth and Boaz. How they walked by FAITH. GOD BLESS!! Lotsa love from all your teachers xxx

Grades 3 & 4 leave Haran for Hebron

Students of grades 3 & 4 from Tamaki PIPC found out all about Abram and Lot's journey from Haran to Hebron. How did they do this? Simple they walked down Pt England Rd, stopped at Te Ao Hou Childcare, then again at Pt England Reserve. All these places represented those in this famous story when Abram was first called by God to 'Go to the place I am going to show you'. All the way down Pt England Rd we followed chalked arrows on the footpath with this verse from God to Abram until we arrived at the sacred tree of Moreh, in Shechem where we built an altar, prayed, set our camp then packed up again stopping at the place between Ai and Bethel. Result - we got to experience some of what Abram may have and now know all the place names and people in lesson one for NZ SSU 2012.
Thanks to the amazing students of Grades 3,4 and 12 for being so open and willing to take part and be part of Abram and Lot's lot on this very sunny day in GI.

NZ Sunday School Union Scripture Examinations

NZ Sunday School Union Building, Queen St, Auckland.

Yes they're still around! They are still a vital part of New Zealand Sunday Schools. Bringing to the forefront many exciting and impacting stories from the Holy Bible. This year's exams were based on servants such as King Josiah, Queen Esther, Mordecai and the disciples - and the ultimate - Jesus. The story of creation was also part of this series. All these lessons teach and remind us of the awesome creation of God. SSU exams rock! It's an awesome way to study His word deeply and to build your understanding of why we stand in awe of Him.

Our Sunday School did extremely well with all our students and teachers passing. We also received 10 special placings!

As part of our preparation for the scripture union exams, the senior Sunday School and Bible Class carried out extra studies on the lessons. These activities were to help reinforce our learning as well as committing to memory God's days of creation. Check out the following movie.

If you'd like to share how you found this year's exams, leave us a comment and take our survey.

God bless and keep you in his steadfast love. Looking forward to the proclaiming of God's word tomorrow during Lotu a tamaiti.

Parables of Jesus

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2 Timothy 2:15 (New Living Translation)
An Approved Worker
15 Work hard so you can present yourself to God and receive his approval. Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly explains the word of truth.

On Sunday the 21st of June our Sunday School alongside many others across New Zealand took part in the New Zealand Sunday School Union Scripture examinations. We had students from the age of 6 up 21 sit the exams. Also 4 of our teachers sat. This year the exams looked at 6 parables of Jesus.
On Monday evening those in Bible Class had the opportunity to reflect on the preparation that took place for these exams. We came to an agreement that our minds are amazing - thank you Lord! The amount of scripture and application that we trained ourselves to remember was fantastic.
Some think these exams are a thing of the past. We are glad to report that we enjoy taking part in them, in fact for many of us it's a good reminder of how we are very capable of committing God's Word to memory as he wants us to regularly. It's certainly something that we hope to continue being part of. Thanks NZ SSU!

This is an invitation to all our students who took part in the exams this year. Please leave a comment that contains your reflections on how you found the exam and your preparation this year. The class who have the most comments posted by Sunday morning will have a special prize presented to them at the end of our fun day. As well as signing your name please state which class you are in. Check out our voting poll too.

Looking forward to reading all your comments.