At Faith Community Church in Lynden, we know that music is great for helping kids memorize Scripture. GT and the Halo Express was instrumental for many of us to hide God's Word deeply into our hearts and we still remember many of the songs and Scriptures that we learned as children that way.

Ever since becoming Awana Commanders at FCC, we have been keen to use music to help kids memorize their verses. Sometimes we found existing songs on YouTube and we would send the link to the parents in our weekly emails. Other times our senior pastor would write songs himself and perform them on the guitar for the kids. He even recorded some of them and put them on YouTube!

Why should we have a daily quiet time? That is a good question. It is a significant investment to spend every single day some 30-60 minutes in God’s Word. We are all busy and our days are already overflowing with activities and responsibilities. So why should we pile even more on our packed plates?

The specific answer may be different for different people, but the underlying reason is probably the same for everybody. Spending time with our Heavenly Father is simply more valuable than anything else in life. Reading His Word and communicating with Him through prayer helps us get the right perspective. He is more than able to make up the sacrifice of time we give to Him, and through His Spirit we get filled with joy, peace, and love. That is the main reason we should have a daily quiet time, to get closer to God on a daily basis and improve our relationship with Him.

Quiet Time was originally designed with a blue color scheme. Blue is a color of trust and a calming color. God made the sky blue and most of us get calm and happy when we see a clear blue sky. But we learned that different people do prefer different colors for their favorite tools. And so, in addition to giving our users the choice between dark and light mode, we now also introduced all kinds of different color schemes.

Changing your color scheme is very easy. Just go to Quiet Time, log in, and select the account icon in the top right, and then Preferences. For the time being, this is only available for the Quiet Time website, the mobile app will be updated later this year.

Reporting Period: February 2025

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Awana is an international evangelical Christian nonprofit organization in child and youth discipleship. Its mission is to equip children's and youth ministry leaders throughout the world to reach kids with the Gospel and engage them in lifelong discipleship. My wife and are Awana Commanders at FCC Lynden since 2021.

As part of Awana, children memorize dozen's of Bible verses. And Quiet Time has a Scripture Memory module which children can use. This will help them both to memorize their verses, and to keep track of the verses they have already memorized, so that they will remember them. But there is one problem. How do you add all the verses they need to memorize to their memory list? We can help, by pre-loading the verses to their account!