Valentine’s Day Service Project

Monday, 15 February 2010, 9:51 | Category : Children and Youth Ministry, Service Projects
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The children and youth of our church prepared a lovely Valentine’s Day spaghetti dinner for the adults of the church yesterday.  They set up a very special dining experience with decorations, music, greeters, waiters and waitresses, and a yummy meal!  Here are my two servers in action.

I LOVE activities that bring all ages of the [...]

Redneck Paintball and Shaving

Thursday, 12 November 2009, 11:49 | Category : Children and Youth Ministry, Family
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Have you ever heard of redneck paintball?  I hadn’t either!  Our preacher’s wife was in charge of the family event at church this month and her brilliant idea was redneck paintball.  The kids had a BLAST!  And, as you can see from the pictures above, my husband did, too!
The weapons are mustard or ketchup covered [...]

Boys and Dinosaurs

Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 8:04 | Category : Children and Youth Ministry, Science
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On Sunday nights at church, I teach a Kidz Group class for children in 1-5th grades.  Right now, I have only little boys in the class.  What better way to catch their attention than to talk about dinosaurs!  Dinosaurs and church??  Of course!  Dinosaurs are a great topic for teaching the authority of the Bible [...]

Seining – A Family Event at Church

Thursday, 23 July 2009, 9:13 | Category : Children and Youth Ministry, Nature Study
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Most of you probably remember that my husband is the youth minister at our church.  We try to be as family oriented in our activities as possible, making sure there is at least one family event per month.  This month’s event was planned by a very neat family that used to homeschool and love the [...]

A Trip to Rome!

Monday, 22 June 2009, 11:05 | Category : Children and Youth Ministry
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Gotcha, didn’t I?    Our church took an “trip” to Rome during VBS this year.  We used Group’s Rome: Paul and the Underground Church for a unique weekend VBS where we invited entire families to participate.  I have to say that everything about this year’s VBS was a huge success!  The material was awesome, [...]