2019 RFPA Annual Meeting
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"Training Our Children in the Discipline of Reading"Rev. Justin Smidstra
Date given: 09-26-2019
Location: Zion Protestant Reformed Church (Jenison, MI)
"I will be making the case that reading is a spiritual discipline, that teaching our children to read is a important part of covenant instruction, and that one of the crucial ways to teach our children this discipline is for parents regularly to read to their children and also to be readers themselves."—Rev. Smidstra   Location details:Zion Protestant Reformed Church7551 12th AveJenison MI 49428 (This meeting provides the only opportunity for men to join the Association.) A nursery will also...
"I will be making the case that reading is a spiritual discipline, that teaching our children to read is a important part of covenant instruction, and that one of the crucial ways to teach our children this discipline is for parents regularly to read to their children and also to be readers themselves."—Rev. Smidstra
Location details:Zion Protestant Reformed Church7551 12th AveJenison MI 49428
(This meeting provides the only opportunity for men to join the Association.)
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