What can I do?
The UMW Annual Bake, Soup and Yard Sale November 7, 2009, 8:30a.m. - 2 p.m. Please start gathering items you would like to donate. Please bring donated item/s to church. If assistance is need in bringing them to the church please call church office 771-4540
Angle Tree - Please note our special giving tree
this year in the entryway of the sanctuary. there are tags for Epworth
Children's Home and Harvest Hipe Food Bank. Please take a tag(s) of your
choice and return the unwrapped gift no later than Sunday,
Nov. 29, 2009. You may also donate gift bags wrapped in tissue paper.
Ministry Moments - Who can participate in Ministry Moments? You
When is Ministry Moments? It is the time right after the announcements just before our call to worship.
Why do we do it? It testifies to us how God is working through normal people and how God is changing our lives. It is important for us to see lives changed inside and outside our congregation through normal people like us.
How do you know you are called to speak?
Pastor asks you
You feel God leading you to share
You have had a change in thinking of how God can work
You have an idea for a new ministry. You feel God has placed this on
your heart.
You want to share about an upcoming event in the life of our church
Children's Sermon - tips
Welcome the children to the front
Sit at their level
On the steps with you able to make eye contact with them
or have them sit on the pew with you in a chair talking to
them
Engage them with an object, or story that is meaningful to them, even a series about something (like plants, imaginary friend, etc.) or a short drama like an interview with a bible character.
Short and to the point - attention spans are 1 minute per age of child
Remember it is for the children, not the adults. Children are very literal, and do not understand symbolism.
Always dismiss with a prayer, you can ask the pastor to lead if you
want. The prayer also has a purpose
Teach them that prayer is like talking to God
Short phrases that they repeat after you.
Helpful links:
www.sermons4kids.com
www.childrensministry.com/article.asp?ID=2235
Other ways to help - including reader, greeter, music, giving testimony, clean up and many other ways. Any thoughts you might have to bring glory to our Lord, talking with Marlene Sipes, Chair of Council on Stewards or David Robinson, Chair on Ministries and/or other church leaders.
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