Upstreet
Week One: Adam and Eve Disobey God – Genesis 3:1–7
Big Idea: God Loves Me and wants what’s best for me.
Live It Out Challenge: What’s one way we can choose God’s way this week?
Transit
WEEK ONE: Ecclesiastes 3:1–8 (NLT)
Bottom Line: Change is a part of life.
It’s our first week back and we are kicking off with 2 new units. Upstreet are doing a unit called best year ever and Transit are doing a unit called Newish. New for 2026 is Upstreet and transit are introducing live out segments where kids get live it out challenges that they get to share weekly.
Up Street ( primary school ) series is called Best Year Ever
SERIES OVER VIEW
Hi families to kick off Upstreet in term 1, we are discovering together how to make this your best year ever—by knowing there is a God who loves me, whom I can trust no matter what, and by choosing to love others the way Jesus loves me.
MEMORY VERSE
“30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12: 30-31
Transit (intermediates and year 9s is called Newish
SERIES OVER VIEW
If there is anything consistent about the intermediate and year 9 experience, it is change. Change is continual, which means everything is newish all the time. This series encourages middle schoolers to consider that every new experience is an invitation to change, change is a part of life, that Jesus invites us to change for the better, and that God never changes, and that is a good thing.
MEMORY VERSE
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 NLT
LIVE IT OUT CHALLENGE
Along with our weekly Live It Out challenges, kids have been given a Kinder, Wiser, Braver bag tag and either a pencil sharpener or a pen! Over the next four weeks, we’re challenging kids to use one of these items as a kindness prompt—to look for ways to show kindness during the week and then come back on Sundays ready to share their stories.
Missed out? No worries! Bag tags and pens or sharpeners will be available to collect on the coming Sundays.