Wow, we've got a busy week this week as our GLO weekend has arrived! But that's not all that we're excited about...a lot of stuff to tell you about this week!
1. Tonight is our Valentine's Day Girl's Night @ the Kelly House. All of our youth girls are invited to our house tonight from 6 - 9 PM to hang out with Crystal and Lydia and to have a great night of fellowship, fun and a chick flick! The students don't need to bring anything so drop them off and have some time for yourselves tonight!
2. IGNITE is going on tomorrow night...doors open in The Attic @ 5:45 PM so make sure your students are there!
3. GLO kicks off Thursday night! We are excited about what God has in store for our student ministry this weekend. Our focus this year is The Church and we'll be talking about what God intended when he created the church, how we as believers plug in and what a Christ-focused church looks like! Students will hear from Coat, Lyle, myself and Jake Gaines who is returning to FBCG for the weekend with Becca and baby Jovie! We'll also be lead by the Michael Reid Band in worship and we have assembled a great team of leaders to come in and invest in the students. This year we have the Brook's, Norman's, Nichols', Allen's, Meadows, and Bowman's homes serving as host homes so we're thankful for them!
Make sure you've signed your student up on the church website at fbcgoodlettsville.com/students and make sure they are here Thursday night at 7:00 to kick off a great weekend! Cost is $30 for church students and students can still sign up and can still bring an unchurched friend for free!!
4. Starting Sunday night, February 26th, we'll be starting a group called "Parent's Hour Out". Each Sunday night from 6:00 - 7:00 PM we'll invite all of our parents to come together for an hour of fellowship, fun, food and a little focus on our students. While our guys and girls will be in their own respective Bible studies during the hour, we'll have the "Fun Patrol" of Kathy Decker, Julie Buttrey and myself ready to lead parents during an hour of fun so come give it a try and you'll be glad you did!!
To close out, check out the thoughts below on increasing your child's self-esteem!
Want to Increase Your Child's Self-Esteem?
What parent doesn’t? I’ve not yet met a parent who’s said, “I hope to instill such a low sense of self-esteem in my kids that they struggle with self worth for the rest of their lives.”
Despite our best intentions, self-esteem issues arise in almost all of us. Why?
It’s not for lack of trying. Many of us offer endless streams of encouraging words to our kids. We pretty much hand out awards for everything from potty training to putting away their crayons to not skipping class in high school. We enroll them in non-competitive sports where every one’s a winner no matter how many goals get scored. In some circles, everything we tell our kids is designed to encourage them, even when maybe they shouldn’t be encouraged.
But self-esteem continues to be evasive, with a generation or two of kids who vacillate between unrealistically high view of themselves and a crushingly low self-esteem. Sometimes in the same child. Sometimes in the same child on the same day.
I want to make a strange connection: What if self-control and self-esteem are linked? What if the child who develops self-control also ends up developing self-respect?
Think about it. When do you feel best about yourself? I personally feel much better about myself when I:
Keep my word.
Eat healthy.
Work out.
Prioritize devotional time with God.
Treat people with kindness, even when I feel like doing otherwise.
Show up prepared and on time.
Exceed expectations.
Take responsibility rather than blame others.
What links every single one of these things is a very difficult-to-master virtue: self-control. When I practice self-control in all areas of my life (resisting impulses, making myself do things I don’t want to do, prioritizing my time and energy), my self-respect grows. By contrast, when I fail in areas like this, my self-respect and self-esteem suffers; I can get into an endless stream of self-defeating talk that’s hard to get out of. Until I practice more self-control.
See the link? Self-control and self-respect are perhaps a little more tied together than we might initially think.
As a result, if you want to grow a healthy self-esteem in your child, you might want to help them develop a healthy sense of self-control.
Ironically, one of the best ways to develop self-esteem might not be to try to directly instill self-esteem at all, but instead to work on self-control. Better self-esteem, surprisingly, may follow.
Have a great Tuesday,
Jeff
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