Helping Children Love God

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Summer is here!

Summer is underway and we are having fun at Faith!

First, a HUGE THANK YOU to all our wonderful school year volunteers for your loving, dedicated service to our children this past school session! This important, eternal ministry happens because of you!!

Now thanks to Gimme 5! volunteers, our classes at 6PM, 9AM & 11AM have been staffed for the first two weeks of June. YAY GOD! And thank you so much to all Gimme 5! volunteers for stepping up to the plate and joining the team!

Lastly, please join with me in praying that I will be faithful in giving people opportunities to serve in the preschool (there are many openings), and that I will trust God to supply for those needs. Recently he highlighted this verse for me:

"We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ." -1 Thess. 1:3

As I read this verse I felt like God was showing me that I need to "work by faith, labor in love, endure by my hope in Jesus" and let Him do the rest. What peace that brings! God simply wants me to do my part, not His. Only He can do that. So I am reminded once again that I need to trust Him AND that he is worthy of all my trust…in every area of my life.

Blessings with much love,

Jackie

Hi Faithful Friends,

I am loving how this week is starting out! I hope you have been blessed by our great weather too.

Here are a couple of items of interest for you:

•Some of you Sunday teachers decided to do the lesson we skipped on Easter the week after Easter. If so, then you are on lesson 9 now. If not, you are on lesson 10. No problem either way.

•Mother’s Day is this Sunday. The curriculum does not include a Mother’s Day craft, so if you want to do one with your kids you certainly may. You can come up with your own craft and supplies* or you can use this easy idea - coffee filter flowers. Go to this link to find out how to make them: http://www.mppl.org/kids/crafts/crafts-april.html. Scroll down and click on the craft link for the coffee filter flowers to read all about it. Let me know by Thursday if you want to do this craft and I will make sure we have enough supplies.

•Fun in the sun! When you take your class out to the playground make sure to follow these simples rules:

Leave a note on your door telling parents where the class is
Take a head count before going out
Take a whistle (to be provided) and train your children to come to you immediately when you blow it – make it fun and practice in class
Return to the classroom before church lets out (unless you have a small class of 6 - 8 children or less). This is for safety reasons. Its hard to stay close to and monitor the children while also being at the gate and checking children out to go home with their parents.
Only go out for a portion of the class time so that you can have time in class to tell the Bible story, etc.

•We are still recruiting for VBS teachers and helpers. It’s going to be SOOO fun! I am going to be there serving in a classroom. Woohoo! Let me know if you would like to join the team too. The dates are June 5 – 10.

•Summer is coming! If possible, we really need you to continue teaching until the end of May. Please let me know if there is a serious problem with that. I will take a survey this weekend on what your summer plans are as well as your plans for serving next Fall. Thanks!!

I think that’s all for now. God bless you all for serving our children and leading them to Jesus! Your valuable participation is vital, your investment is eternal, and the fruit of your labor is nothing short of God’s purpose being fulfilled on this earth through you. Glory to God!

With much love,

Jackie

THANK YOU Easter Volunteers!

To the 80 adult and youth volunteers that served at one or more of our four Easter WOW! Kids services: THANK YOU SO MUCH for loving and serving our little ones!! Because of you 208 children felt God's nurturing love and heard the message of His resurrection power! We will never fully know the impact of what we say and do, but I do know that God is glorified and children choose to follow Him because of you. It doesn't get any better than that! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

With love & joy because of you,

Jackie

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!