We had a great meeting this morning.  I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas.  I thought I'd jot down my thoughts so any of you that missed the meeting will know what we discussed.  There are also a few links to various web sites that I wanted everyone to check out.

1.  Looking Back on 2009

SUNDAY SCHOOL CURRICULUM

We did some research on the sunday school curriculum to make sure what we are using is meeting our needs.   We found that the Sunday School curriculum is really a blessing and by far the best for our needs.  We are still using David C. Cook's Bible-In-Life curriculum for the toddlers.  We are using FaithWeaver for Sunday school. There are some great links to enhance this curriculum on our web site.  You can find it under the Teacher Support links to the right.

We also started using FaithWeaver Friends on Sunday evenings.  This dovetails with the lessons that we are teaching on Sunday morning.  The kids really like it a lot.

I have three teen helpers, they are very involved in this class and it is great to have them help.

2. Thoughts for 2010!

I talked about Kidology in our last training day.  Karl Bastian founded this ministy some years ago and he offers some real cool Children's Ministry tools.  In january he is going to be offereing a few different curricula for FREE.  I am going to look at that as a possible replacement for what we are doing in Kids church; please keep that in prayer.

Showing Kids Love

I subscribe to the Kidology podcast, it is typically about 20 minutes long.  Recently therewas an awesome message that Karl shared about showing kids love.  I saved a copy of it on this site for everyone to listen to.  Go to the training page, or just click on the player and listen now.  There are other valuable MP3 messages on the training page.

How to Show Kids L.O.V.E.

Outreach

We have been given an awesome opportunity to minister to the people at the Pines of Perinton.  Russ and I are planning a monthly ministry on Saturday mornings.  We'll have an opportunity to share a meal with them, worship and teach the Word.  We are hoping to have a time specifically for children to hear the Word on their level.  Keep this in prayer and let me know if you are interested in helping.

I believe we are being challendged by the Lord about outreach.  Reaching children in ER and the surrounding towns.  We hold VBS each summer but I have been disappointed that we are only getting a few kids from the village.  I would like to do more to promote this to the surrounding area to get more kids that may not typically attend church.

Another summer outreach idea is a Backyard Bible Club.  I would like to start promoting this as another way to minister to children who don't attend church.  The idea is that families would host the bible club in their home it would be about an hour to hour and a half.  We would hold a mini-VBS there and families would invite kids from their neighborhood to attend.  Please pray for this and about how you can help with this outreach opportunity.  It could be held in the mornings, afternoons or evenings... think about the possibility!

Keep these things in prayer, contact me with comments, questions or other ideas.

Thanks and God bless!

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