Palm Sunday

Some of our youngest kiddos celebrating Palm Sunday during their Sunday Community Class.  

No Sunday Community Classes on Easter

Children's Worship will be offered for children 3 years old - 2nd grade. They will not say their catechism questions this week.  The teachers will use resurrection eggs to share the Easter story.  

All children will be invited up front during the beginning of the corporate worship service to listen to a story being read from The Jesus Storybook Bible.  They will hear the story, God's wonderful surprise (The Resurrection, from Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, John 20).

Easter Preparations

Check out the following youtube link for the song we will be singing on Sunday as we observe Palm Sunday.  Children will be waving palm branches while singing.  Yes - they can still do the arm motions while holding palm branches for the chorus:

 Who is this King of Glory

The Lord Strong and Mighty

King of Glory by Chris Tomlin

Grace Kids singing King of Glory

PALM BRANCHES - They will be available this coming Sunday following the service for each family.  Each child in the family may take a palm branch home with them.  Check out the following link for directions on how to make a cross with the palm branch.  

how to make a palm branch cross

Walk His Ways Lent Lessons - The concluding Lent lesson was this past Sunday when children listened to the parable of the lost coin (Luke 15:8-10).  We discussed the questions:  Do we ever get lost from God?  Does He lose us or do we lose him?  How do we find God?   Then each child made a prayer cube.  We talked to the children about why we pray.  Please encourage your children to use their prayer cubes as a reminder for daily prayer.  We made simple cubes where they wrote the letters P, R, A, Y around the cube and then added a cross or heart on the top and bottom along with their names. 


Before the lesson the children all had a chance to share prayer requests and add to a large poster titled PRAY.  I wanted to share some of their responses:  heal boo boos, patience, thank you, sick people to get better, forgiveness, happiness, meet goals, to be good, health, and family.  

Easter Events

 ONE week away from our 4th Annual Easter Egg Hunt!

Easter Egg Hunt at Chickahominy Oaks Pavilion

Sunday, March 25^th from  3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Sponsored by:  Grace Community Presbyterian Church

Sweet Treats, Games, Egg Hunts by age

3:30 – 3:45:  Elementary, 3:45 – 4:00:  3 yrs. old – preschool

4:00 – 4:15:  2 and under

Don’t forget your Easter baskets

Spring Family Pictures available from 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM

Donations welcomed in support of a medical missions trip to Haiti with students from Bon Secours Memorial College of Nursing

Please RSVP Tracy Surratt (RSVP2Tracy@yahoo.com)

Check out the following link for some creative ways to help children understand the Easter "Blessing" basket.

http://www.littlellamas.com/2010/04/rocks-in-basket.html