CHILDREN’S MINISTRY BEGINS NEW YEAR

 After a crankin’ summer with the play Character Matters (see post about that),  the Family Fun Day in the Park and the outreach that invited people to both those things fun things are again happening on the children’s front this fall.

Up until the end of 2009, SUNDAY SCHOOL will be using materials from Answers in Genesis which begin with evolution and creation and focus attention on  the  7 C’s of the Bible –

            Creation

            Corruption

            Catastrophe     

            Confusion

            Christ

            Cross

            Consummation

If you haven’t seen the beautiful Sunday school rooms you should take a look.  A few snapshots are included at the end of this post.

Beginning in January, they will be beginning a new curriculum developed by the Tucson, AZ church called Tenets of Our Faith.  These lessons aim to teach children the basic beliefs of the Bible and the Christian life in a way that a child can understand and remember.

There are three levels of Sunday school – pre K & kindergarten, taught by Terri Gordon and  Sharon DiPrete

-         Grades 1 – 3, taught by Corey Todoroff, Maria Winslow and Lindsay Cross

-         Grades 4 – 6, taught by Chip and Lori Ganiear

CHILDREN’S CHURCH  this week welcomed 5 year olds, while giving completion certificates and Bibles to the six graduating  12 & 13 year olds. Josh & Debbie Shapiro and Ty & Rita Gomes join Larry & Monica Barros and Teddy & Heidi Henning as leaders for the two age groups in children’s church.  Roy Colby leads song service for the children, with slightly older children as musicians.  Sunday school themes are re-enforced here with preaching and activities appropriate to the two different age levels. 

The Barros’ are also mentoring the Young Servant’s program, in which teens begin to step into ministry positions both in Children’s church and other areas of the church.