I love my church kids

I have posted so much about my family drama that I wanted to tell you that I LOVE MY CHURCH KIDS!

I love the first Sunday of the month because that is the Sunday that the bigger kids stay upstairs for communion and I am solely in charge of the younger ones during church.

I have already taught most of them Sunday School in the formal setting but in children's church time I am a little more relaxed and fun.

Usually we go up to big service for the worship part of church and come down for preaching but today the schedule was off balance and they would have had to sit through a long prayer time and communion time. I know their limits. I know their limits on the 4th of July too.

Today we pulled out our movement DVD of Kingdom of the Son. They love it. I let them hop, dance, conga line, everything in praise. I mean they love it.

I used this time to get their craft started. I then brought them over for their craft time which was a patriotic streamer activity. I turned the DVD back on and played the ones they requested while waving their banners. It was awesome.

We had a Popsicle snack time. We don't usually have snack time during children's church but it was a holiday and I like to bend the rules.

A deacon brought me communion . I stopped and explained communion to them. I then prayed and partook of it myself. They were very eager to learn why I can take communion and we talked about salvation.

We then colored a patriotic picture of the lion and the lamb. I explained that to them too. Our Sunday School lesson was on the lion's den so it was a perfect blend.

Then we played a marble game I found online based on David and Goliath. They get so excited over this simple marble game. Plus we covered this story last week.

We prayed.

We listened to more of their DVD and did the movements until the grandparents came... yep all my kids are brought by their grandparents or by me...my nephew whose parents to come sometimes.

It was a great Sunday at church... Not all Sundays are, I work with another worker who is a stickler for rules and very hard on the kids. One of these days, I am going to blurt out.... JUST CHILL!

This and That

This is a picture of Fluffy chilling on our nice swing. You would think he lived here or something.

This is a picture of our last Wednesday night church activities for the 08-09 school year. We had a fiesta. This all them searching for candy. They were all great troopers, the older ones made sure that everyone had the same amount of candy from the pinata.

That is the picture of our whole regular crew. Their bellies look a little round because we had just had nachos and we did the Mexican hat dance. OOOOOHHH! Yes we danced in the Baptist Church. We might have to call a business meeting over that dance, HA!

You might ask , why the fiesta? Since the beginning of May we have been studying about Mexican Missionaries. Overall we had a great year. We learned about missionaries and other countries. We made craft items and played games. This is also our children's bells ensemble, so we practiced alot at Christmas. Oh and what the kids loved, we had two baking nights. During Easter we made crosses out of bread and not too long ago we made Eve's Apple Crumble in which we talked a long time about sin and right and wrong. It was a great year.

So now you have read about a little of this and a little of that. Have a great day!

More Mother's day

Part of our gifts to the Mother's last Sunday was the kids singing. They actually were doing an encore presentation from a few weeks ago. My nephew is in the blue striped shirt up front. He had a solo.
This is my nephew doing his solo. I do not know what he was looking at because their music director was on the front row not the side. I really think he was trying to make sure no one else was trying to sing his solo with him. The sweet little girl to his right tried to make it a duet last time. It was so cute.

Our children's choir is getting so big that we are going to have move the pulpit when they sing. They are getting too big to try to put on one side of the pulpit or the other. They need the whole stage. Also the front row has had a huge growth spurt . There used to be no problem seeing the back row and the front row but not now. Those little kiddos are growing. Why can't they stay little? Oh well, the children's choir director and I will have to come up with some more creative ways to spread them out now unless the back row has a huge growth spurt soon.

Oh and by the way, Thank to Jen over at Jenn #2 on my favorites on the right side of my blog for letting me steal her pictures off facebook. I always forget my camera but why do I need my camera when she takes such great pictures. I am sure she will have these pictures on her blog soon too.