CommunityKids

Spring Fling Thing

Come join us on the Fort Smith campus tonight for Spring Fling Thing. This is an event wrapping up Community Kids and 56. There will be games, food, and lots of fun! If you are kindergarten through 6th grade, you won't want to miss out!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Ready or not - it's a brand new year. Time for new resolutions and new commitments. I encourage each of you to commit to praying for our Children's Ministry in 2009. Our goal is "Transformed Children Transforming Their World" and you can help us make that happen!  Pray for our ministry, our volunteers, and our children and great things will happen.

ODDS and ENDS

Don't forget! - JANUARY 7th - Community Kids starts up again!  We will be serving pizza at 6:00 and then our activities for the evening will begin at 6:30.  Pizza and a drink is $2.

CK Bucks - This Sunday in C-123 we will be starting CK Bucks. This is an incentive designed to encourage our kids on Sunday mornings.  Kids can earn bucks for attendance, bringing their Bible, bringing a friend, participation, memorization, and enthusiasm.  There are lots of ways for the kids to earn bucks, we will keep track of them at church, and then the first Sunday of each month there will be a store ,with lots of fun stuff, open for the kids to shop in.  This Sunday we will be sending home a flyer explaining CK Bucks, so be sure to get a flyer when you pick up your child.

2009 will be a great year. I encourage you to find your spot. Whether you volunteer on Sunday mornings or Wednesday nights or you pray for us daily, you'll want to be a part of our Children's Ministry in 2009! Have a great day and I'll see you Sunday!

Julie

Community Kids' and 56 at Malco Cinema

A reminder that we will meet at Malco Cinema on Wednesday night for Community Kids and 56.  Please sign your child in and also sign your child out.  The movie (Madagascar Escape 2 Africa) will start at 6:15 so don't be late.  I took my family to see the movie the other day and actually enjoyed it.  Kids of all ages will love it, as well as adults.  The cost is $5 per kid.  This gets you a movie ticket and a coke and popcorn.  Parents are welcome to stay and bring their younger children.  The cost is $5 for each person.  See you Wednesday night.

Skate Fun!

Lace up your skates - we're going to Crystal Palace!

This Wednesday, all Kindergarten through 6th graders are invited to join us at Crystal Palace. We will meet at 6:00 pm and pickup is at 8:00 pm. The cost is $5 and that will cover your skates and food.

Parents, you will need to sign your child in and then sign them out. Feel free to stay and join the fun - we would love to have you there. The more people there are, the more fun there will be!

Be sure to look for pictures here on the blog at the end of the week. Who knows, maybe this time I'll be able to post them correctly the first time!

Julie

Well Child Policy

Well Child Policy

We want to provide a healthy environment in our nursery, preschool, and children’s area, so we ask parents to keep their child at home when they observe any of the following:

*Fever

*Vomiting

*Diarrhea

Green or yellow runny nose

Questionable rash

Excessive coughing

Discharge in or around eyes

Any communicable disease

*if it has occurred any time in the past 24 hours.

If a child shows any obvious signs of the symptoms above, you will be asked to keep them with you so that we do not expose the other children in the classroom.

Parents will be notified promptly through our paging system if a child becomes ill while in our care.

Please make sure a child being treated with an antibiotic has received treatment for at least 24 hours before coming to the children’s area.

Thanks for your cooperation -  Children's Ministry Staff

56

On Wednesday nights we have started a new 5th and 6th grade program called 56.  The name sounds like a cop-out, but the 5th and 6th graders worked hard to find the right name.  They found Matthew 5:6 and it was the perfect verse.  Check it out for yourself.  56 is a great time of fun.   We play games, eat, have contest, and talk about the Bible.  Don't miss the opportunity on Wednesdays to drop your 5th or 6th grader off from 6-8 and watch them become transformed.  Bring a friend.

The Dark

Last night our Community Kids (K-4th) and 56 (our newest Wednesday night 5th and 6th grade program) met at Ben Garen for Pizza and Putt-Putt.  I think a great time was had by all until the lights were turned out on us during the pick up time.  I hope that when you woke up this morning you had the right children. We did our best to keep it under good order.  (Ha!)  If you have the wrong child please let me know and I will place them with the proper owner.

We also had a short Bible talk. Community is in the process of going through the book of Philippians on Sunday mornings.  There are daily devotional on the website if you are interested.  Our talk last night was out of Philippians 1:3.  Paul was writing to Philippi while he was in prison (kids think that that is weird) and still each time he thought about people that were doing their best to tell others about Jesus, even though he was in prison, he thanked God for them.  Our encouragement to the Community Kids last night was when they think about family, friends, and their church...thank God for them.  I hope you do the same each time you think about your family, friends, and your church as we do our best to carry out the Gospel of Christ.

Welcome!!!

Finally we are up and running.  Thanks to Joel who spurred us on to the goodness of the 21st century, Becca and Kerry who built it and Mark who saved us a bunch of money. (don't ask) This blog is for parents, volunteers and kids a like.  We want to do our best, as a children's ministry to communicate what is going on in the lives of children, birth through 6th grade, with you the reader.  We want you to see pictures, read our posts, leave your comments, and communicate with us at any time.  To the right of this post you can see how to navigate through the blog.  If you need to contact one of our children's staff either FSM/VB you can click on the name.  If you want to only read post about specific ministries you can click under catigories to whatever pertains to the ministry you want to read about.  Thanks for taking time to read our post.  Check back each day.  If you have any questions give us a shout. 

Remember...Transformed Children Will Transform Their World

Thanks for letting your child be a part of what we are called to do and work hard at doing...Children's Ministry at Community.

Matt Whitson, Children's Pastor