Grace Kids Service Opportunity

Please see below for an opportunity for your children to participate in a service opportunity with MCEF (Mechanicsville Churches Emergency Functions)

The holidays are coming up soon and MCEF will be giving out extra food to patrons during the month of November.  Along with their regular bags of groceries, our pantry patrons will receive a pre-packed grocery bag (no turkey this year) containing the following items for Thanksgiving dinner:  

1 box stuffing mix

1 can or envelope gray mix

13 oz. box instant potatoes

2 cans green beans

1 can (reduced sodium) mushroom soup

1 can french fried onions

1 box roll mix

1 box pie crust mix

1 can pumpkin pie filling (or any type of pie filling)

1 can yams

1 can cranberry sauce
Thanksgiving pre-packed grocery bags will be handed out to families visiting the pantry, from the last week of October through the end of November.  Each family can visit the pantry once a month and we want to be sure everyone receives a holiday bag before Thanksgiving. 

If you would like to participate in this service opportunity please plan to bring bags to church on Sunday, October 23rd.  You could partner with another family to fill a bag as well.  I will deliver the bags and food items to the Pantry the following week.  Encourage your children to add a decoration to the bag.  We are planning on incorporating this service opportunity into a preschool play date early in November.

Sunday Community Memory Verses - October

Adventurers: 2nd - 5th grade class

Isaiah 53:4  “Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.

Sprouts (Preschool) and Seekers (Kindergarten - 1st grade) have the same memory verse: 

Psalm 100:4 “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.”

Check out the video below for hand motions to accompany the verse. 

Critters (2 year olds & 3 year olds) - Just a reminder that our youngest Sunday Community class will be working on the same verse for 2 months.  Their verse for September and October is: 

Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." 
Check out September 12th post for hand motions for Critters memory verse.

Children's Worship Update

Preschool

Thank you to Jen Scholten and Scott Liesinger for your instruction today!  They worked with your children on catechism question 5.  Children learned hand motions for praise Him (extend arms forward and up in praise), love Him (cross hands over heart and then point up), Thank Him (fold hands in prayer), and Serve Him (wrist together, palms open).  There lesson today was about 1 King 17:  a prophet named Elijah.  Children ended the lesson with coloring a picture of Elijah and adding it to their journals.  (The journals stay at church, but feel free to take a look at them anytime!)

 

Elementary

Thank you Keith Scholten for your instruction with this group today!  Keith started with a review game (Catechism Toss) covering catechism questions 1 - 32.  Children then worked together to complete a True/False activity sheet.  The activity sheet was a reinforcement of questions 29 - 32.  Question 29 begins this section with:  What is sin?  Sin is any lack of conformity to, or transgression of, the law of God.  After completing the activity sheet there was a question that followed:  What does God promise to His people because Jesus took the punishment  for their sin? FORGIVENESS

 

Catechism Questioner

Thank you Ira Staley for listening to the ELEMENTARY children today as they said the answers to catechism questions.  If your child is in the elementary class, then he/she should have a catechism slip indicating the number learned in class. Thank you for all your help and reinforcement of the catechisms.  Next week the preschool class will have an opportunity to say their catechism answers. 

Family Worship Night - Clips

Thank you so much to the band:  Randy, Joey, and Abe for all you do every week with our children for Grace Kids.  Thank you to Ed, Eric, and Tracy for all your help throughout the evening.  Many thanks to Becky for creating a fun skit for Daniel and the Lions Den and our fabulous cast.  Below are a few short videos of some songs we enjoyed together during the evening. 

Young - Seeds Family Worship - Courage cd

Here, Kitty Kitty - Why Not Sea Monsters?

Rock Eternal - Seeds Family Worship - Praise cd

YUMMY! Ice cream sundaes

Children's Worship Update

Preschool

Thank you to Sandy Southard  for your instruction today!  Sandy worked with your children on catechism questions 3 and 4.  They discussed how when they act the way God tells us to, they are like a light for other people to see.   They discussed the following examples: worship=kids at church,Share =two children playing together, love = heart, Obey = children with their parents.    Today the children had a picture of the 4 things mentioned above that they colored and placed in their journals.

 

Elementary

Thank you Kristine Jasinski for your instruction with this group today!  Kristine read a lesson to the children today covering questions 29 - 32.  Question 29 begins this section with:  What is sin?  Sin is any lack of conformity to, or transgression of, the law of God.  The remaining questions to this set unpacks the answer to question 29.  The lesson today was the story of The Good Samaritan.  Have your children retell the story to you as an extension of what they learned today during children's worship.  Kristine used stick puppets to tell the story to the children. 

Catechism Questioner

Thank you Elisabeth Pajic for listening to the preschool children today as they said the answers to catechism questions.  If your child is in the preschool class, then he/she should have a catechism slip indicating the number learned in class. Thank you for all your help and reinforcement of the catechisms.  Next week the elementary class will have an opportunity to say their catechism answers. 

Kids Give Back - Highlights

I put this video together for a church announcement a couple weeks ago highlighting a few things about our Kids Give Back summer camp.  If you missed it at church take a look!! 

Sunday Communities - Memory Verse for Critters in September & October

Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

Since our Critter crew is so young this year, Caleb helped us out by reciting the verse and showing the hand motions.  We'll work on this verse each week and receive Smarties as a treat at the end of September and October for saying the verse well!  We'd love it if you would partner with us and reinforce Scripture memory at home!