Missing you too and Maths etc

Sorry Alison

I cannot figure out how to reply to a comment so I will have to do it here, see below!

Tony and Alison Gilchrist said... Hello dear sister,

Missing you. Even though I haven't been at church to miss you! Just got back from a week with my family in Sydney today! Just wondering about Saxon Maths...is that the one you recommended to me?? Couldn't quite remember. Would you please be able to check this link out for me if Saxon Maths is the one you mentioned.
http://www.christianbook.com/saxon?event=1016ECAST&p=1155018 Is that a good saving??
love Alison

17 April, 2010 22:44

Hi Alison

I can't begin to tell you how much we have all missed everyone at church as well. You are all still so very much loved and very,very much in our prayers. God has been very good to us... for He heals the broken hearted and binds our wounds; He has humbled us and used our broken hearts to draw us near to Him. He has given us hearts of tremendous love and compassion, of trembling prayfulness and of peace, beyond understanding, by His merciful grace! I have never been with a group of people so aware of God's love and grace, so humble in the deep distress at unintended hurts that have been caused due to circumstances, so trembling in prayer for those who are hurting as they are aware that they themselves cannot heal these hurts. So eager to serve God as He wants them too. And so I thank God for such a touching and humbling experience indeed. I cannot always chose the path my children must walk and that I find the hardest ( I wish I could protect them all from hurts) but I pray that the way He shows us to go will always be used to lead them closer to Him.

Timmy is soooo looking forward to Elliot's birthday party, he checks the invitation regularly! He has missed Elliot a lot already! I hope you have had a lovely time in Sydney!

Re early maths....I love Saxon for Grades 1,2 and 3. I have also tried Singapore Maths G1 too, also good. I have both if you want to see them and compare. The only weakness of Saxon at this level for me personally is teaching of 10s and ones/units etc. But that is easily solved with a bit of imagination, as not hard to teach. My best friend actually likes the way they teach it - so it is just a matter of personal reference. I also like Teaching Textbooks but that only starts at grade 4 level. My bright boys have used Saxon all the way through, they have two different 'CD ROM teachers at upper levels. Also for the upper level... Paul B. looked at Saxon as did a USQ maths lecturer and both said it was easily at the very top levels of maths in the schools. For this reason I always start with Saxon to see where their maths ability is at as it is harder to get into it later, I think, maybe??

Re price..yes, that looks very good and is even cheaper than Rainbow's usually cheapest of cheap prices ( http://www.rainbowresource.com/index.php ) Both companies are good and efficient with mailing things, compare mailing prices, Rainbow is cheaper if you have a big order, so I usually share an order with others! Rainbow and Christian Books are my two most used companies. I also love Timberdoodle http://www.timberdoodle.com/ , but they carry fewer things. Sometimes Timberdoodle are cheaper than the publishers themselves!

Thank you for your friendship and prayers, God bless my dear friend, love Joy

More Free Reformed Baptistic Sunday School Materials

See http://www.praisefactory.org/

This comes from the church that Mark Deva's pastors http://www.capitolhillbaptist.org/



Also take a look at this web site for a history of catechisms and access to them too. http://www.reformedreader.org/ccc/bcat.htm . If you scroll right to the bottom of the page you can see that John Piper has a version which looks quite useful!


How important do you think it is to teach our children God's ways? It should not just be left to the Sunday School teacher. But we should be showing them how to walk with God day by day. Lord forgive us when we do not lead them daily in this way.....

Psalm 1 (ESV)

¹Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
²but his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.

³He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers. ⁴The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

⁵Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
⁶for the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.

G rated outdoor advertising in Australia

Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 7:58 PM
Subject: {Disarmed} THE FIGHT IS ON FOR G RATED OUTDOOR ADVERTISING


Update from Wendy Francis - 2 weeks ago I started a facebook page - OUTDOOR
ADVERTISING SHOULD BE G RATED. Today, 2 weeks later, there are over 2,600 on
that page. There has been a good amount of media interest and we are now
embarking on a billboard campaign calling for outdoors to be G rated as far
as advertising goes. The reasons for this are numerous and probably obvious.
The main driving force for me is for the protection of our children's minds.
Below is a media release that has been sent out today fyi. If you would like
to join the campaign go to my website www.wendy4senate.com and find out how.
Please don't hesitate to contact me for any more information.

Kind regards

Wendy



MEDIA RELEASE - THE FIGHT IS ON FOR G RATED OUTDOOR ADVERTISING

Family First's fight to make outdoor advertising G rated gained momentum
over Easter as a flood of public support flowed in to launch a billboard
assault against billboards displaying sexualised images and messages.



In less than 2 weeks over 2600 people have joined a facebook group calling
for Outdoors to be a G rated environment.



Wendy Francis, Family First's Lead Senate Candidate for Queensland, said
people are fed up with outdoor advertising shoving inappropriate messages
into the faces of children.



Australia's children were being robbed of their innocence, Wendy told a
family forum over Easter. Speaking at a 4-day convention attended by more
than 1000 people on Mount Tamborine, Mrs Francis said the current social
environment was bombarding children every day with messages promoting
promiscuity, drugs, alcohol and reckless behaviour - just to name a few.
"These negative influences are robbing children of their innocence, and
plundering the childhood they deserve," Mrs Francis said.



With a take on the billboard ads "Longer Lasting Sex," Family First has
launched a "counter-attack" planning "Longer lasting Childhood" ads in a
billboard campaign to "make the outdoors G rated." Incensed at brazen
adult-theme advertising, Mrs Francis said, "It's not logical that images
prohibited from prime time television are up there for all to see 24/7".



"This campaign has great community support, and I believe it will be a giant
step forward in pulling back the sexualisation of our culture that is
currently occurring at a rapid pace," Mrs Francis said.



She is confident of raising the funds to run a 6 month billboard campaign
saying simply "Outdoor Advertising Should be G Rated."



Mrs Francis also has plans to use a Galaxy Poll and bumpers stickers in the
fight. She will host a summit this month in Brisbane with a number of
supporting community groups to discuss strategy for the campaign including
the National Civic Council, Family Council of Qld, Collective Shout and the
Bioethics Centre of Qld.



kind regards

Wendy Francis

Lead Senate Candidate

FAMILY FIRST because some things are worth fighting for

www.wendy4senate.com

facebook - wendyjoyfrancis

twitter - wendy4senate

Wendy Francis

Grief

What is it?

I have always loved psychology and have found it fascinating in terms of how if reflects human nature. I find it so amazing that people don't realise how brilliant the Christian World view is in terms of offering help to people in stressful situations and people who face grief and depression etc. A good understanding of the Bible goes a long way to help with recovery. I have had two secular professionals advise me on how to manage a child using excellent Biblical principals without understanding that that was where they got them from.

As I have watched my children working through a grieving situation over the past few weeks as we have prepared them to leave our dear and precious friends at church, my heart has ached to see their grief at saying goodbye to their friends. My little PDD.NOS girl sobbed when I corrected her for being rude and grumpy...."I am not being rude and grumpy," she shouted, "I am just sad, that is how I am when I am sad." She also told a sibling she was so sad she felt as if she was dying inside. For her it is brilliant that she can explain herself so well. Although she has had some totally irrational moments to remind me to be very careful with her frailness at present. In the providence of God she has a beautiful sister, 2 years older than her, who loves God and who has spent all day playing and talking with her. And this little girl has a birthday party next weekend which she helped me plan in finer detail today. I can slowly see her aching ease a bit. She wrote a story about an orphan who was hurt and rescued by lovely new parents, I think she was able to realise that others hurt even more than she does.

It led me to think that I don't know much about grief in the whole Apergers, PDD, autistic etc area. Can anyone help me with links? Apart from the fact that I hate generalisations, it would be helpful research. I looked up the stages of grief again.....here are two different versions, the first would be the traditional view.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model

http://www.recover-from-grief.com/7-stages-of-grief.html


Sometimes it takes a while before we can stand back and see things in clear perspective, but God can always see the bigger picture! He has a plan and a purpose for our lives and for each of our children's. As we are faithful to Him, so He will undertake for us.May we honour and glorify our wonderful God in the process, may our children be enfolded in His love as a mother hen gathers her chicks beneath her wings, and may they grow strong in their love for Him! May they be able to do mighty things with their lives as a consequence of good and passionate love!

Post-mortem kindesses

From Grace Gems

Today's Puritan Audio Devotional:

The art of living a Christian life
J. R. Miller Play Audio! Download MP3

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Post-mortem kindnesses

(J. R. Miller)

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your affection sealed and laid away--until your friends are dead. Fill their present days with tenderness. Speak your words of commendation, while their ears can hear them! The things you mean to say when they are dead and gone--say before they go! The flowers you mean to send for their coffins--send beforehand to brighten and sweeten their homes, before they leave them forever!

I have often said--and I know I speak for thousands of other weary, plodding toilers--that if my friends have vases laid away, filled with the perfumes of sympathy and affection, which they intend to break over my dead body--I would far rather they would bring them out now along my toilsome days and open them--when I can enjoy them and be refreshed by them!

Post-mortem kindnesses do not cheer the burdened spirit. Tears falling on the icy brow of death, make poor and too tardy atonement for coldness, neglect, and cruel selfishness in life's long, struggling years. Appreciation, after the heart is stilled in death--has no inspiration for the departed one; it comes too late, when it is pronounced only in funeral eulogies. Flowers piled on the coffin--cast no fragrance backward over weary days.

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We have posted Grace Gems for MARCH in one file!

Grace Gems (choice ELECTRONIC books, sermons & quotes)

Grace Audio Treasures (choice AUDIO sermons)

Sovereign Grace Treasures (choice PRINTED books)

FREE Reformed Baptist SS materials

http://ss.grbc.net/

Did I say I was praying for free materials for churches in Africa to use for SS?

Take a look at this! MP3 and power points included in these materials! Excellent!

Free Bible Story Colouring Pages for children:

Train up a child in the way he should go!

Duet 6:4-9 (ESV) The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

I have been meaning to get this set up for ages, as many people have asked for it over the years. The best by far is the first one (Calvary Chapel) as they are firstly the most comprehensive and secondly they have quizzes etc for older children too. (I noticed as I was looking around that there are are many other sites using their pictures with no acknowledgement to them) All the links below were found in relation to 'Easter' or 'Passover' searches. There is heaps out there to chose from, don't forget too that there are a number of Jewish sights which have OT stories. I ntice too that the most popular stories are easily found, others are harder to find sadly. Any artists out there feel burdened to provide free drawings for all the Bible? In places like Africa there is so little money for buying of curriculum, so 'free' is the only thing they can afford. It is my dream to see more good quality Bible teaching materials on line for this purpose....leave a comment if you have any other sugestions!

The best one:

http://children.calvarychapel.com/SITE/curriculum.htm

Others:


http://www.calvarywilliamsport.com/activity-pages.html

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/coloring-pages/passover/

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/coloring-pages/christian-easter/

http://www.shirleys-preschool-activities.com/meghans-free-preschool-printables.html

http://www.toddler-activities-at-home.com/passover-coloring-pages.html

http://www.toddler-activities-at-home.com/easter-coloring-pages.html

http://www.childrenstory.info/biblestoryforchild/cb1.html