Archive for Children’s Ministry
GEMS – Operation Christmas Child ***UPDATE***
****UPDATE*******
We have just received word from Samaritan’s Purse regarding where the shoeboxes our GEMS program collected were sent. You can click on each countries name to find out more about Operation Christmas Child’s ministry to that area: Ghana; Gabon; Botswana; and Rwanda.
WAY TO GO GIRLS!!!!!
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NOVEMBER 28, 2011
Over the last several weeks, our GEMS (Girls Everywhere Meeting the Savior) program collected donation items for Operation Christmas Child. Nineteen girls showed up on November 19th to help pack and deliver these items. Our girls met and EXCEEDED their goal and donated 204 shoeboxes!!!! Upon arriving at the donation center the girls continued their service by loading the shoeboxes on a truck, making cards and notes to send in boxes, making and decorating toy wooden tops, watching a video and packing some additional boxes there.
Way to go GEMS! We are so proud of you!!!!!
Sunday School – HomeFront Weekly
Please click the logo below to get this week’s HomeFront Weekly to discuss with your students prior to this Sunday’s Sunday school lesson. This is a great tool to use to get involved in your child’s spiritual formation! Please be sure to look it over and read with your students!
NEW SUNDAY SCHOOL CURRICULUM
The Sunday School program is introducing a new curriculum for Pre-K4 through 6th grades. The name of the new curriculum is Tru, which is put out by David C. Cook (www.tru.davidccook.com). This is an exciting new curriculum that will allow all students in these grades to learn the same lesson.Please see the video below to learn more about this great curriculum.
This curriculum also provides electronic resources each week for parents, as well as a monthly resource, they call HomeFront. CLICK HERE to download the PDF of monthly newsletter and CLICK HERE to download the weekly newsletter for great ideas to discuss the upcoming lesson for Sunday. Below is a video that shows the iPhone app that they have developed that includes some of the great ideas in the newsletters as well as the monthly newsletter.
Follow the Star
If you are wise, you will follow the star on Saturday night over to the Cathedral lawn where you’ll see wonderous things at the Living Nativity, as well as hear a great outdoor Christmas choir concert.
The Living Nativity begins this Saturday 6:30PM following the Malverne tree lighting ceremony by the Malverne train station which begins at 5:00PM. Friends and family will be walking about the town of Malverne as the town closes off the traffic and opens up the streets to people and festivities for the night during its annual celebration. So come out for a festive time and wonderous sights as the Advent season is here.
Sunday School Parent/Teacher Meet ‘n Greet
This Sunday, October 17th, immediately following the 11am service, all parents are invited to attend our Sunday School Parent/Teacher Meet ‘n Greet. At this meeting, you will be introduced to all the men and women who faithfully serve your children at both services, learn more about the curriculum we use, and hear the vision and future plans for our Sunday School program.
We hope to see you there!
Vacation Bible Experience (Formerly VBS)
This year we will be joining Grace Lutheran Church for their Vacation Bible Experience again! The children and volunteers that participated last year really enjoyed the program and I am sure will enjoy it again! The dates this year are July 12 -16 from 6:00 to 8:30 (with an optional dinner at 5:30). Below is some preliminary information on what volunteers are needed and how to sign-up:
Sign-up:
- It’s for all ages- there is an early childhood program for children going into PreK and kindergarten, a children’s program for kids going into grades 1-5, and an adult program; youth 6th grade+ are crew leaders for the children’s programs or (if they are in high school) they may choose to attend the adult program. Childcare is available for younger children whose parents attend the adult program (by prearrangement).
- It’s FREE
- It’s open to anyone- invite your friends and neighbors
Volunteers Needed
- Bible station (skit and story telling based)
- Game station
- Craft station
- Snack station (help kids prepare their own snack that ties in with the day’s story)
- Video station
- 4 and 5 year old program
- Childcare
- Worship leading (sing, play an instrument, help run power point/CD player, and/or teach simple motions to songs)
- Mission offering collector (tells about the mission)
- Photographer
- Registration
- Cleanup/kitchen crew
- Decoration (happens the week beforehand)
- Publicity (happens starting now– word of mouth, emails, posters around churches schools, town businesses, etc.)
- Fundraising (so we can offer the program free)
Please contact Becky Elfman at becky_elfman@yahoo.com for more information and to pre-register your children.
Girls Dance -Uncreated One
On February 28, 2010 girls from the Cathedral Church of the Intercessor performed a dance to Uncreated One by Christ Tomlin in honor Lent. You can watch their performance below:
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Sunday School Teacher/Parent Meet ‘n Greet
Yesterday, parents of Sunday school students met their children’s Sunday School teachers and found out what exactly goes on downstairs during Sunday School. Some of the parents, as pictured above, participated in some of the worship the students experience each week.
Parent-Teacher Meet & Greet
Parents of Sunday School children are invited to meet the men and women who help instruct their children in God’s Word and God’s Ways. This is an excellent time to talk to the teachers, ask questions, and connect with those who are helping you to “train your child in the way they should go”.
Operation Christmas Child
Gems girls at the Westbury Dristribution Center, standing by the truck that will deliver their “shoeboxes of love” to Operation Christmas Child, a Christian outreach ministry that delivers packed shoeboxes of presents around the world. The poor and needy will receive gifts in Jesus’ name and the GEMS girls will be learn how it is “more blessed to give than receive”.
