Grace Kids Update

 Operation Christmas Child - Samaritan's Purse

 For all you Duck Dynasty Fans check out the following link to see Uncle Si teaming up with Operation Christmas Child:

Operation Christmas Child/Duck Dynasty  

This might be something your children would enjoy watching as they consider what they would like to add to the boxes they are packing.  More boxes will be available this coming Sunday at church.  Filled boxes can be returned at any point - please place them under the table with the tree.  All boxes need to be returned by Sunday, Nov 10th. 

Our goal for GCPC this year is 70 boxes!!  

Thank you for all the support with this ministry!!!

If you did not receive a copy of The Scoop this past Sunday you can find a copy here: 

November/December Scoop - You will find out all the upcoming events for November and December for Grace Kids Ministry with this newsletter.  Make sure and take a look. 

This past week I took copies of The Advent Jesse Tree  by Dean Meador Lambert to church for the resource table.  You can read more about this book here: 

 Advent Jesse Tree

Copies are available for $12.  We will be handing out a gift for families beginning at the start of Advent that works perfectly this book.  Handouts will be provided with the git but the Advent book would supplement well. 

Opportunities for Kids

Prayer Sticks for Tucker Sibiga

Below are the 5 prayer sticks for Tucker.  On each stick is one picture of Tucker and one picture of a way to pray for him.  We've also written a little more on the stick about the prayer.  Please use these prayer sticks in the morning, during dinnertime, at bedtime or whenever else you want to pray.

 Tucker's parents have created a website

 http://tommyandellie.com/index.php/tucker/life-at-home/

Operation Christmas Child

www.downloadclipart.net

Operation Christmas Child -Samaritan's Purse.  

There will be a tree set up the next few weeks at church.   

There will be Samaritan's Purse brochures attached to it.  We would like to
encourage families to take a brochure and follow the guidelines listed in
the brochure to fill a box (Boxes will be available at church).  I have
additional backpacks left over from Kids Give Back that will also be placed
by the tree.  If you want to take a backpack to include with your box that
would be great.  The brochure indicates items to include in the box and
suggestions for 2 possible ways of payment for shipping the box:  You can
include the $7 to cover shipping in the envelope included with the brochure
or pay online.  The great benefit with the online payment is you will be
sent the destination of your box.  Filled boxes and payment for shipping
will be collected by Sunday, November 10th.  You can bring back filled boxes
as soon as they are completed and place on the Sunday Community Table.  Feel
free to take more than one box. 

We have set a goal of 70 boxes for our church - Let's do it!!   

Click here to find out more about Samaritan's Purse

http://www.samaritanspurse.org

Update: Sunday Communities, Children's Worship, Picnic!!

• Just a reminder that we don't have Sunday Communities or Grace Kids Worship this week!  We will start back up on Oct 20th. 

Sunday Communities

* Sprouts (3 year olds):  They will be working on a craft for God made the world and God made me.

• (No memory work yet but saying Psalm 23 with them while using the hand motions would be great.  They will start actual memorization of Psalm 23 beginning Nov 3rd.)

* Explorers (Preschool - Kindergarten): This class continues to listen to stories from The Jesus Storybook Bible. Please go over the handouts they bring home to follow up with the lesson.  The story they will learn about next week is, Son of laughter.  

• Memory Work for Oct:  "Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be they name. They kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 

* Seekers (1st - 2nd Graders): Their lesson next week will be on Jesus' First Miracle from John 2:1-11.  

• Memory Work for Oct: John 2:11 "What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him."

* Adventurers (3rd - 5th): They continue to work through the Desiring God Curriculum - How Majestic is His Name.  They will be focusing on Adonai next week.  

• Memory Work: Psalm 8: 1- 4 "Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens . Through the praise of children and infants you have established  a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.  When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is banking that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?

Children's Worship

There are a couple cd's available for children's worship for the Ask Me Whooo Cd's  available on the Resource Table for Volume 1 and Volume 2.

Each CD is $10 and it puts each Catechism to music!  In my opinion well worth the money and it is a great way to have kids learn the catechisms. 

FALL PICNIC

Coming up next Sunday, Oct 20th following Sunday Communities is our Fall Picnic at Chickahominy Oaks Pavillion.  If you haven't rsvp'd to the Evite yet please do and indicate the number of pumpkins you would like to decorate.