Menantikan Tuhan > Mendapat Kekuatan Baru - ROCK Sydney ...

More documents

Recommendations

Info

ROCK Family By Poppy Ivone Come Play with Me My TAFE friend told the class that she has a few 4-5 y.o. children in her preschool that can read, write and even get up in front of the class to ‘teach’ their peers with ease. And while this quickly drew awe and admiration from the rest of us, she quickly continued, “..but they would lose it at the slightest thing. They don’t know how to react when their friends say ‘no’ to them or when they are playing with something and their friend says, ‘I want to have a turn at that’. They don’t know how to negotiate.” There is a big push for parents to start preparing their children academically. While this clearly has benefits, early childhood period (a time before formal schooling starts) is, in my opinion, a period for children to be children. A child’s social and emotional development is being recognised as not only an indicator of school readiness, but as an actual predictor of school success down the road. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), “Across a range of studies, the emotional, social, and behavioural competence of young children...predict their academic performance in first grade, over and above their cognitive skills and family backgrounds.” One of the easiest ways parents can foster this is through the simple act of playing with them. A child’s social and emotional development is being recognised as only an indicator of school readiness, but as an actual predictor of school success down the road Don’t be so quick to discount play as just “wasting time”. Many parents misunderstand and underestimate the value of play in the lives of children, forgetting that play fosters physical, social, emotional, and intellectual areas of development, as well as literacy and numeracy. Learning through play is accepted by child care professionals and education experts as one of the most important ways that children learn and develop. Play should be fun, stimulating and based on the children’s interests, which sometimes require deliberate and thoughtful planning. I personally find other parents/teachers’ blogs inspiring. A few of my favourites are www.playbasedlearning. com.au, www.5orangepotatoes.com, and pinkandgreenmama.blogspot.com Some simple things you can do with your child today: •Physical development: Dance to the music and make obstacle course with things around the house for running around and climbing over for gross-motor development, draw on the pavement with chalk or use coloured ice cube on old sheet for fine-motor. •Language development: Use nursery rhymes, finger plays and read to your child. Use openended questions to stimulate thinking and discussion. •Intellectual development: Cut some paper into basic shapes of various sizes for your child to make pictures with, put a drop or two of food colouring in his/her bath water and throw in some empty clear containers for measuring fun time. •Social & emotional development: Make sock puppet and stage a puppet show, imaginative play and dress-ups - younger toddlers are better suited to those that imitates familiar themes with realistic props, i.e. cooking, playing mommy and daddy, collect pictures of different facial expressions and guess what each is feeling. Have fun! 1 6 • ROCK Sydney Bulletin • August 2011
ROCK Easy Digest By Dennis Harsono Tingkatkan Kewaspadaanmu Di dalam Yohanes 1:12, dikatakan bahwa pada waktu kita percaya pada Yesus, kita diberikan identitas baru sebagai anak-anakNya. Kita lahir sebagai ciptaan baru dan diumpamakan seperti rajawali. Rajawali memiliki musuh burung-burung lain di angkasa dan juga musuh di darat yaitu manusia. Ada satu waktu dimana spesies rajawali hampir punah karena ulah manusia untuk kepentingan pribadi mereka. Tahukah saudara ketika seekor rajawali tidak waspada, disitulah saat yang paling mudah bagi pemburu untuk menangkapnya? Rajawali adalah burung yang sangat cerdas dan berbahaya. Ia tidak bisa ditangkap dengan tangan biasa. Cakarnya, paruhnya, dan kecepatan terbangnya sangat dahsyat. Rajawali juga memiliki mata yang mampu melihat mangsanya dari ketinggian 200 meter, sehingga secepat kilat ia bisa menangkapnya. Suatu hari ketika ia sedang terbang, ia melihat ada ikan segar menggelepar di atas batu. Awalnya, rajawali ini tidak tergoda. Tetapi semakin lama ia melihat ikan ini semakin ia berpikir “Ah, tidak apa-apa, tidak bahaya”. Lumayan juga aku tidak usah bekerja untuk mendapatkan makanan hari ini.” Ia pun mulai menikmati santapannya di atas batu itu. Hal ini berlangsung hingga kurang lebih dua minggu. Suatu hari ia melihat besi di dekat ikan segar yang hendak dimakannya. Awalnya ia berpikir mungkin itu sebuah perangkap. Namun, lagi-lagi ia menepis kecurigaannya dan menikmati ikan segar itu. Karena ia lengah dan tidak waspada, rajawali ini akhirnya tertangkap perangkap besi yang dipasang pemburu ketika ia tengah a- syik menikmati ikan kesukaannya. Tahukah saudara ketika seekor rajawali tidak waspada, disitulah saat yang paling mudah bagi pemburu untuk menangkapnya? Apakah saudara sekarang sedang asyik menikmati “ikan” atau kedagingan sehingga saudara tidak sadar bahwa ada perangkap besi yang siap untuk menangkap anda? Apakah roh saudara sekarang tidak lagi menggebu-gebu untuk hidup kudus dan melayani Tuhan seperti dahulu? Jika ya, berhentilah mengunyah “ikan” itu. Waspadalah kepada tipu daya dari musuh kita yaitu iblis yang menipu dan membahayakan. Ingatlah bahwa kita masih hidup di bawah kerajaan dunia, sehingga tidak mustahil kedagingan dan kehidupan lama kita masih menarik dan terlihat menggoda. Tapi jangan ijinkan ini menguasai hidup kita. Lawan kedagingan itu dengan kekuatan FirmanNya. Berhenti memberi makan daging anda dan buat daging anda kelaparan sehingga mudah dikendalikan. Waspadalah kepada tipu daya dari musuh Iblis ingin hidup kita mengais-ngais di tanah seperti seekor ayam dalam kandang. Tetapi Tuhan menginginkan kita untuk terbang tinggi di angkasa bagai rajawali. Karena itu, waspadalah! Mari kita terbang tinggi dengan mengetahui kuasa FirmanNya dalam kehidupan kita setiap hari. 1 rocksydney.org.au • 7
Page 2 and 3: From Pastor’s Desk By Pst. Samuel
Page 4 and 5: ROCK Revelation By Ps Lydia Yusuf M
Page 8 and 9: ROCK Komunitas Mesianik By Sianny J
Page 10 and 11: ROCK Praise By Yosia Yusuf God is f
Page 12 and 13: ROCK Sydney Ministries By Charlie W
Page 14 and 15: ROCK News Update Kingdom Offerings
Page 16: 1 st August II Samuel 18 Jeremiah 2

Menantikan Tuhan > Mendapat Kekuatan Baru - ROCK Sydney ...

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?