FeedMore Tour: Party with a Purpose

Party with a Purpose: Slideshow!!

Today a group of 30 kids brought in 277 pounds of canned goods and $78.67 for FeedMore.  

Here are a couple facts we learned today during our FeedMore Tour:

$1 will make 5 meals

They make 3,000 meals daily at FeedMore.  

Thank you to FeedMore for giving us a tour of the facility!!

Thank you to all the families who participated in our "Can"rival and Party with a Purpose!!

Summer Activities Coming Up SOON!!

The Grace Kids Team has planned for 2 fun events happening this summer!  

Don't miss out on the fun. RSVPs are needed for both events.  

If you are interested in attending either (or both) please rsvp soon for planning purposes.  Pass along to your friends!

1)  Party with a Purpose on Friday July 31st beginning at 10:30 at the Kings Charter Playground.  This will be a great service activities for kids and will end with a trip to the FeedMore facility for those who can join us.   

Here is a Sign Up Genius link with ALL the details. www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C094DAFAE28A20-party/

This is a long sign up genius but that is only because we have it jam packed with all kinds of fun details about this event. 

2) Tubing!!  We would love to have you join us for this fun activity too.  This will be on Saturday, August 8th. 

All the details can be found here: 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094DAFAE28A20-summer

RSVPs and Payment required by July 19th. 

Thanks!

Kids Give Back 2015

We have had a fun few days!!  Tonight will be our final night of Kids Give Back - Here is a slideshow recap:
Kids Give Back 2015 Slideshow!!!
  

Thank you for all the generous donations toward the GCPC Granada, Spain Missions trip!
Kids Give Back Songs

Don't forget about Sweet Frog today.

Kids Give Back - Go Deeper With God - Begins this Sunday!!!

It's not too late to join us if you are interested!  We are looking forward to Sunday to kickoff our 2015 Kids Give Back!!!  Attached is a letter with all the details:  

Kids Give Back Parent Letter

4G Video & Party with a Purpose!!

I wanted to begin with sharing a video created by Michelle, Becky, Jennifer, Darlene and the 4G boys for a special purpose!!  

Here's a link to the video. It's 11 minutes long but worth every second!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0hc5HJaoTs&feature=youtu.be

Party with a Purpose Details - An evite to rsvp will be sent out soon!!

Who: Families with Preschoolers through Rising 6th graders...You are invited to our Party! 

What: Not just any ol' party... This is a PARTY with a PURPOSE!  It's a "Can"-ival with games, prizes, food and gifts to teach our kids that you are never too small to serve others!  We will be helping out our own Central Virginia Food Bank. 

When: July 31st at 10:30 a.m. followed by a tour of the FeedMore facility at 1:30 (for anyone interested)

Where: Kings Charter Clubhouse and playground for the party followed by the FeedMore tour at 1415 Rhoadmiller St; Richmond, VA

Why: Because God asks all of us - including children- to serve others in His name

For those interested, here are some more details:

GIFTS: We'd like to ask you to bring a party gift...and we know exactly what we want! FOOD DONATIONS for FeedMore. (Specifically requested food items: Peanut butter, canned tuna & chicken, low sodium veggies, fruits packed in juice, spaghetti sauce (no glass), canned or dry beans, hot and cold cereal, whole grain snacks)

Note to Parents:  We would love for you to encourage your children to do some work, earn some money and use that to help purchase the canned food donations.  In addition, if you are willing to donate some coins that could be used as prizes for some of our can carnival games, please let us know.  The kids will earn coins for participating in the games that they will then be able to take with us and donate to Feedmore during our tour. This is a very tangible way for the kids to serve others in need. Use this as a teaching tool with your kids this summer!

LUNCH : A Pizza lunch will be provided including lemonade, but if you would like to help with sides and desserts, we will send out a sign-up list as the date gets closer.

TOUR: At the conclusion of our party, we'd like to invite you to do something very special. Something that we believe will help our children embrace the reason for our party. We'd like to invite you to join us on a 30 minute tour of FeedMore. We'll take all of our food donations to FeedMore and have them weighed. We'll also give our monetary donations at this time. Then, we'll be able to tour the facility and see how meals are prepared and hunger is helped. (Parents will need to provide transportation to/from the tour and no sandals or open toed shoes allowed on the tour)

Directions to FeedMore:  1415 Rhoadmiller St, Richmond, VA 23220

Grace Kids Newsletter

You can go to the following link for view the May Newsletter for Grace Kids Ministry.

http://eepurl.com/bnAEB1

Sunday Community Teachers

First a huge thank you to the teachers who have volunteered this year!!! They have gone above and beyond with their planning.  

If you are interested in being part of the Sunday Community team for 2015-16 we have a need for a teacher in  the 2nd/3rd grade.  Please let me know if you would like to teach.  Here are more specific details:

•  Available spot in 2nd & 3rd grade.  
• Sunday Communities begin at 11:00 AM with the start of Grace Kids Worship.  
• Sunday Community teachers will sign in their students at the start of Grace Kids Worship and then dismiss with their class at the conclusion of Grace Kids Worship (around 11:15 AM).  
• Teaching time is from 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM.  You will be on a team with 3 other teachers. 
• You will have a partner teacher and take turns with preparing/leading the lesson.  
• Format is 2 weeks with one pair of teachers and 2 weeks with the other pair 
• (Therefore once a month where one person has to lead and the other time assist, then off for 2 weeks). 
•  We do not have Sunday Communities on the following days:
• Sunday following Thanksgiving, 2 weeks at Christmas, a week at Easter, and Memorial Day Weekend.  
• Please let Julie Best know ASAP if you are interested in helping with the Preschool or  2nd/3rd Grade class (julie@gcpres.org).  
• One last thing…
• They are  a great group of kids and the new curriculum provides many fun and engaging activities to do with the children!!!!