My little guy will be three on December 23rd.  Time flies! Because of the busyness of Christmas and my nephew’s birthday soon after Christmas, we always celebrate Eli’s birthday just a tad early.  Three year olds have FUN partying! Our church celebrates Jesus’ birth a tad early, too.  Last night was the annual Christmas pageant.  [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, the [...]

Ms. Sandy is a wonderful lady in our church who has no children of her own yet, but loves all our children like her own.  Among so many other things she does for our children, she plans a yearly trip to the pumpkin patch.  Sunday, after church, we all changed clothes and headed to the [...]