We have been given an opportunity to host a workshop centered on teaching purity to our children at a young age. The conference entitled, Planting Seeds of Purity into Young Hearts, will be conducted by Susan Henson. Susan is a pre-conference speaker for an upcoming True Women ’08 event (www.truewoman.com) and on staff with Revive our Hearts www.reviveourhearts.com), Pure In Conference Ministry for Moms & Tween Girls 7-12.

Here’s what she says: “I have a deep burden on my heart for Young Moms & Grand-moms trying to combat the negative influences that are bombarding our children at such an earlier age from today’s culture. This workshop will also address how to plant seeds of purity into young hearts. The window of innocence is closing faster than ever before. Unfortunately, we as parents & grand-parents are being forced to address sensitive issues of purity at an earlier age leaving us all wondering how?”

Are you concerned about how to combat the negative cultural influences that are bombarding our children? Learn how to:· Combat Cultural Lies with Truth· Create a Safe Place of Communication· Carve out Courageous Convictions Early· Plant Seeds of Purity in an Impure World· Lock Arms and Enlist in the Battle for our Children’s Hearts

The workshop will be held from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. on Monday, September 29th in Smyrna. If you are planning on attending, you can sign up at the welcome center on Sunday.

Susan will have some resources available on Monday night if you are interested. Please consider attending this. Its an incredible opportunity for us to hear from God what He wants us to teach our kids about the issue of purity.

An Excellent article by Time Magazine:

Unless you're an adolescent male, you have already asked yourself this question, perhaps in the past few days: Is there something wrong with teen girls? Specifically, are they getting too sexy? Barely a week passes without a flash bulletin blinding us with news of another prominent preadult who is in the family way or showing off her underthings. Miley Cyrus, 15, seminaked! Jamie Lynn Spears, 16, pregnant! A bunch of Massachusetts high schoolers all having babies together! It's an epidemic! [Read More]

After readin the article, I would love to hear your comments. Leave them below.

We take Caiden to a preschool program at a local church. This past week, Dawson and I were leaving the church after dropping Caiden off. Dawson noticed the cross on the top of the church building, pointed to it and said, "Jesus, Cross." Wow! I was so impressed and humbled at the understanding of my 2 year old. From a parent's standpoint, this reminded me to say "thank you" to all of the volunteers who serve faithfully in our children's ministry area at our church. Now, as the director of that ministry, I quote the Bible:

...'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. ... Matthew 25:21

What if Rock Springs Church earned a penny every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support Toward Tomorrow Together: The Journey Begins? Well, now it can!
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Just go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter Rock Springs Church as the charity you want to support. And, be sure to spread the word!

So how do you do it? Well there are a couple of things that you can do. You can make Goodsearch.com your homepage once you have verified what organization you want to donate to. Or you can download the IE toolbars or Firefox toolbars to do your searches from your browser, all while donating to Rock Spring Church.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me, shelby@rockspringschurch.com

What's your "if only"? Every one of us has one, two or a hundred different scenarios in which we would do or say something differently. That e-mail we wish we would not have sent. That relationship that we should have avoided - or never began. We all have regrets, things we would do differently if given the chance. So if life inevitably brings those "if only" moments, how do we handle the regrets that haunt us? How can we turn the "if onlys" from our past decisions into something more, something that will help both us and others?

Here is a breakdown of the weekly sessions:
Session 1-9/3/08: Rewind - Bottom Line: Yesterdays regrets affect today.
Session 2-9/10/08: Haunted - Bottom Line: Freedom begins when we name our regrets.
Session 3-9/17/08: Redeem - Bottom Line: The regrets of yesterday can be redeemed for tomorrow.