>>Does anybody offer a grand prize at VBS any more? If so, how...
Dear Sherri,
This year we are trying something new for the children. All of the leaders, including the craft, music and snack leaders are going to have a roll of tickets. Each child each day will receive from their teacher a ticket for attending, another if they know their memory verse, another for bringing their bible, and another for bringing a friend. The snack, music and craft leaders will also hand out tickets for "random acts of kindness" that a child may show. The first night in crafts, they will be making some type of little pouch to save their tickets in. The last night of VBS the child with the most tickets in each classroom will receive a stuffed animal that goes along with our theme. The tickets can then be spent at the General Store. For example, lasso licorice may cost 4 tickets, a cross necklace may be 15 tickets. We have a supply of inexpensive gifts for the children to choose from. (This is taken from the idea of the children's pizza places that have games that give tokens to cash in.) I'm really excited to see how well this works.
To God be the Glory, Leslie at New Hope Christian Fellowship Akron, OH
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3) Honoring children?
Our children's church program has been studying the Bible. These kids will have gone through the entire Bible in June which has taken five years to complete! Our church wants to honor them in some way. Have any of you accomplished a similar goal and have ideas. Thanks, Melba
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4) Is this right cost?
$12.00 is all it costs to get me started using all the wonderful Sunday School material on this site??? Guilda King
Can you think of a situation when being poor is a good thing? We want to be rich in spirit, rich in health and rich in our bank accounts. We want the best of everything, because having the best is a measurement of our success. However, when Jesus began his sermon on the mount by saying, “Blessed are the poor in Spirit…”, he was not touting the benefits of those who don’t have money, nice clothing or fine food to eat. In God’s economy, being poor in spirit is about emptiness -- spiritual emptiness. It is coming to the realization that we are powerless to help ourselves and that nothing in and of ourselves naturally chooses to follow God’s ways.
The BE-Attitudes for adults is an eight session study for individuals or groups which explores how to make Jesus' attitudes your daily attitudes.
I've just been reading today's article, and wanted to mention something about a baseball themed curriculum written by Dawn from Kentucky. She mentioned showing clips from some kid's baseball movies. One of them was "Bad News Bears". I went to that movie years ago, and walked out before I had seen very much of it because of the amount of profanity used - by children as well as adults. Maybe Dawn doesn't use those parts, but that was the "theme" of the whole movie.
I do hope your brother and his family are coping with the loss of their son. I still have you on my prayer list. I pray for you daily, and thank God for you and your ministry.
Love in Him, Carolyn
--from SSTN: Dear Carolyn, that is a real concern when you use secular movies. Thank you for the heads up. Thank you also for your prayers and concern for my brother and my family. It has been very difficult...but I see God working in my brother's life. He is more receptive to God than ever before! PTL! ysic, sarah <><
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6) Sunday School Year Round
I am in agreement with TB who said Sunday Schol Should be year around. Several years ago, someone in authority at my small country church deciced that since attendance was down during the summer months , that we should not have it during the summer. Well, you guessed it----when fall came only about 3 families showed up for Sunday School. Attendance has never been the same. I advise those of you who might consider doing this , to carefully think it over. DW
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7) Baseball theme?
Dear Dawn, Would you be willing to share your baseball teaching with us? Thank you, Blessings, Linda angelshome@uplogon.com
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8) Baseball theme
To those I sent the "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" 4-8 week program: Some of the program did not go thru for some of you. The last 2 weeks did not copy thru....if you were one of them please let me know and I will send the whole program thru again...please put in subject line "Ballgame resend" and I will know....thanks for all the responses and I pray they are helpful to you. God Bless. Dianne eugenendianne@otelco.net
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9) Policies & Procedures
I have been working on that for our children's ministry, and I just typed in policies and procedures for children's ministry in the search line, and i've gotten a lot of policies that other churches use, and i have adapted it for our church.
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