Easter Info...(Updated)*

Hi Faithful Friends,

Easter is an exciting time in our church body! There are many new faces that we get to love on and tell the good news to! This is especially true in Children’s Ministry! This year we are having four (4) Easter services again on April 3rd & 4th as follows: 6PM, 9AM, 11AM & 1PM.

I would like to invite you to be a part of blessing our Faith families and visitors this Easter!

• If you are already scheduled to serve that weekend, please encourage a family member to help you. Also, would you prayerfully consider volunteering for one extra service time?
• If you are not scheduled to serve, would you prayerfully consider volunteering on Saturday and/or Sunday?
• If so, fantastic! Let me know what area (nursery, preschool, or either) and what service time(s) you want to serve at. Then I’ll get back in touch with you and confirm the details.
• Regular Preschool Teachers - *Update: Please refer to the Easter curriculum I emailed you on March 23rd. Be sure to let me know if you need another copy. If you want to show an Easter movie, please make sure it is only part of class time so you can still do some fun and hands-on things with your students.

With love & resurrection power,

Jackie

VBS is coming!

Hi Faithful Friends,

We are going to have a Vacation Bible School (VBS) this summer at Faith! You may have heard about the VBS planning meeting that is coming up. This note is to let you know that it was originally on Sunday, but has been changed to next Wednesday night, February 10th, in room 204 at 7PM. Light refreshments will be served. So, if you are interested in the exciting opportunity to reach kids for Christ through VBS, please attend this meeting! Also, please pass the word on to your friends.

Joyfully,

Jackie Evans

FamJam Fun!

Attention awesome Children's Ministry Volunteers!

You are invited to join us for the February FamJam - Friday, Feb. 5th @ 6:15 p.m. Come for dinner, fun, music and games for families of preschoolers and elementary age kids. It's a great way to connect on a different level with the kids in your preschool class at church!

Happy New Year 2010!!

Happy New Year to all our wonderful Children's Ministry Volunteers!! You shine Jesus and our children are drawn to Him because of you. Thank you so much and may God bless you this new year with more of His love, joy and peace!

Joyfully with love,

Jackie for the team

Jingle Jam 2009!

Hi Wonderful Friends!

I hope you are having a very merry December so far. :)

Just a note to remind you that Jingle Jam (our Children’s Christmas Program) is this Friday night. Our preschool children will start off the program with those sweet songs they’ve been practicing at Worship Time. If you are able to join us to help herd our little sheep (oops, I mean angels), please arrive at 6:30 p.m. and come to the preschool worship room. After our kids sing, there will be two songs from the elementary choir and a festive, short program. We will follow this with a cookie and hot chocolate reception in the Fellowship Hall. This is a great time to visit with your student’s parents!

If you think you can come, please send me a reply.

Thank you so much for all you do to shine Jesus in this dark world. HE IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON!

Joyfully serving with you,

Jackie Evans

A note from Pastor Dan...

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to briefly talk about the vision God has given me for our ministry (in case you were not able to make it to our meeting the other night). First of all, I would like to congratulate all of you on a job well done! I am very impressed with where our ministry is and the quality job all of you are doing. I would also like to thank you for all of your selfless service, and reassure you that there are eternal ramifications for what we are doing.

This past weekend we had a number of kids come forward to either receive Christ or express a desire to be baptized. This is something to be celebrated! It should also serve as motivation to us as we move forward. If we look out our windows we have a front row seat to a lost world, a lost world that we must work diligently at reaching. With this in mind, we are going to become more outreach focused. That is not to say that we will neglect the children that we have, we will simply become more intentional at going out and bringing them in.

One of the ways we are going to accomplish this is by creating some bus routes. We have a goal of 3 bus routes to begin in January for our Saturday service. I would ask you to pray about what your part may be in that exciting ministry. Another way we are going to try to reach out to the community is by expanding some of our events to make them more outreach oriented. For example, on December 11 we have a Parents Night Out (P.N.O.). In the past the P.N.O. has been limited to the first 60 kids registered and it has been free. We are now going to charge $5 a child and use the budgeted money to sponsor kids from our community who may not have been able to come otherwise. During the night there will also be a gospel presentation and an opportunity for kids to come to Christ.

More long-term plans include; V.B.S., Upward sports (upward.org), and continued building of the bus ministry. Again, I would ask that you all pray about how God may use your gifts in these ministries. I believe the fruit we saw in this past weekend should serve as motivation to us, the world is truly lost and we have a responsibility to reach them for Christ.

In Christ,

Pastor Dan

Bible Story Article & Tips

Top Tips for Bible Story Telling:

---Tell the children that every time they hear you say [a certain name or word], then do a [particular] motion.

---Have children dress up and help you act out the story or retell the story.

---Use a puppet to review the story, asking the puppet questions (give a few funny answers to keep the children interested). Or the puppet can ask the children review questions after the story.

---Sing a special song to start each story time. Teach the children that when they hear the song, they are to gather in a certain area for the story. The best way to do this is to use a familiar tune (like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) and come up with simple words about story time.

---Read the children a Bible BIG BOOK (based on the curriculum that week) from the hospitality room.

---Keep the Bible in a special container or treasure chest and bring it out when it is story time.

---Tell the story in character using all the voices.

---Cut out a picture while telling the story. If you are telling about Joseph, you could be cutting out his coat of many colors while storytelling. The kids won't know what it is until you show it to them at the end of the story.