News for Sunday, November 7, 2010

Welcome to November! It's almost Advent season - such an exciting time at church!

Some of you filled out registration forms for your children this week. If you haven't received one, please find me and get one next week. We need a registration form filled out for every child in Sunday School, Children's Church, Inspire, or the nursery. I also need Permission to Publish forms filled out this year so we can take pictures for bulletin boards, art projects, etc. I won't be posting pictures of the children on this blog. We also need permission to publish because we are ustreaming children's sermons (and other parts of church) online. If you don't wish for your children to be on ustream, you will need to keep them sitting with you away from the camera during children's time or find some other arrangement you are comfortable with. Please come talk to me if you have any questions.

We are collecting items for Operation Christmas Child, sponsored by Samaritan's Purse. We will be packing a shoe box, or two or three to send to a needy child worldwide. Here is the mission statement of Samaritan's Purse: To demonstrate God's love in a tangible way to needy children around the world, and together with the local church worldwide, to share the good news of Jesus Christ. Isn't that awesome?!? I'd like to fill 4 boxes: 1 for a girl and 1 for a boy aged 2-4, and 1 for a girl and 1 for a boy aged 5-9.
Here is a list of suggested donation items:

Toys: small cars, balls, dolls, stuffed animals, kazoos, harmonicas, yo-yos, jumpropes, small Etch-A-Sketchs', slinkys, toys that light up or make noise (with extra batteries)

School Supplies: pens, pencils, sharpeners, crayons, markers, stamp and ink pad sets, writing pads or paper, coloring books, etc

Hygiene Items: toothbrush, toothpaste, soap (in a bag), washcloth, comb, etc

Other: hard candy and lollipops, mints, gum, T-Shirts, socks, ballcaps, sunglasses, hairclips, toy jewelery, watches, flashlights (with extra batteries)

DO NOT INCLUDE: used or damaged items, war related items such as toy guns, knives or military figures, chocolate or food, out of date candy, liquids or lotions, medication or vitamins, breakable items, aerosol cans

Please bring in items for the shoe boxes Sunday, November 7th, 14th or 21st.

Thank you!

Call me, Amy Wright, at 376-2651 if you have any questions.

News for Sunday, March 21st, 2010

Sunday School (at 10:30):

Teacher- Debbi Goodie

Shepherd - Adrian Bell

Music – Frances Graves

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Toddler Room (after children’s moment, about 11:40):

Teacher – Amy Wright

Shepherd – Carmel Dehn

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Preschool/Early Elementary Room (after children’s moment, about 11:40):

Teacher – Tasha Lesko

Shepherd – Adrian Bell

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Nursery Volunteer - Rebecca Moritz

News for Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Volunteers for Sunday, March 14th:
10:30 - Teacher - Debbi G
Shepherd - Jeff R
Music - Frances G

11:30 - Teacher -Amy W
Shepherds - Tammy S
Darian G
Gail H

Nursery Volunteer - Carol S

We will be doing our special presentation during church this week. Practice this with your little ones if you can:
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.

Most kids know it pretty well now! :)

Date change

The Sunday School’s recitation of “All Things Bright and Beautiful” will be on March 5^th. Please, help your child memorize the following:

All things bright and beautiful,

All creatures great and small,

All things wise and wonderful,

The Lord God made them all.

Please help your child memorize this!

On Sunday, February 28th, the Sunday School children will be doing a special presentation during the worship service. The children will be reciting the hymn "All Things Bright and Beautiful" as a poem. All children will be reciting the chorus together. Please help your child memorize this:

All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.

News for Sunday, February 14th, 2010

February's memory verse is:
Faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13

Volunteers for February 14th:
Sunday School (at 10:30) -
Teacher: Debbi G
Shepherd: Jeff R
Music: Frances G

Children's Church (during the worship service)-
Teacher - Amy W
Shepherds - Gail H
Tammy S
Darean G

Nursery volunteer - Carol S

Nothing but Nets update

We raised enough money to send 8 nets to Africa!

According to the Nothing But Nets website:

Bed nets work by creating a protective barrier against deadly-malaria carrying mosquitoes that bite at night. A family of four can sleep under an insecticide-treated bed net, safe from malaria, for four to five years. The benefits of bed nets extend even further than protecting those sleeping underneath them. The insecticide woven into each net makes entire communities safer – killing and repelling mosquitoes so that they can’t go on to bite others who may not be protected by a net.

Thank you for helping us save lives!