{"id":19647,"date":"2018-08-30T17:06:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T21:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=19647"},"modified":"2018-12-01T11:35:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T15:35:24","slug":"chalk-art-puts-god-into-our-walk-8-26-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=19647","title":{"rendered":"Chalk Art Puts God into Our Walk (8\/26\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every first through fifth grade student in our Sunday School was handed a stick of chalk and some Bible verses, and then they were directed to the sidewalk outside of our Narthex.<\/p>\n

The class has been learning a lot of Bible Stories, and the verses that their teachers handed them lifted up some of the key truths that these stories teach.<\/p>\n

As Christians (regardless of age!), we are called and empowered to spread the Truth.\u00a0 And so, if you come to the church and walk the sidewalks near the building, you will see some of the Truths which our children creatively “spread.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Matthew 6:28-30<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies<\/span> of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.\u00a0 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Isaiah 40:8<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 The grass withers and the flowers<\/span> fall,\u00a0 but the word of our God stands forever. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Genesis 9:13-16<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 I have set my rainbow<\/span> in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.\u00a0 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,\u00a0 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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3 John 1:4<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children<\/span> are walking in the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mark 9:37<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Whoever welcomes one of these little children<\/span> in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Philippians 2:8<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 And being found in appearance as a man,<\/span>
\nhe humbled himself, and became obedient to death \u2014\u00a0 even death on a cross<\/span>!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Proverbs 4:23\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 Above all else, guard your heart<\/span>, for it is the wellspring of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Artists at Work<\/span><\/h3>\n

It was a lot of fun, but it also took a lot of work and patience.\u00a0 Here are some glimpses of our sidewalk artists in action:<\/p>\n\n\t\t