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Activity / Department Details
Kid's Night Out -- At Kid's Night Out, we learn that we can have fun, and still live for God! We generally run this for about 2.5 to 3 hours. The first 30min, we play some type of jump in game, such as Fruit basket, Ring on a String, etc. Next, we have 4 games each lasting 15 minutes. These games are generally team games, with boys playing against the girls. Next we stop to eat. Some simple meal, corndogs w/ chips and drink. After eating, we have a 20 minute story time (to let the food settle). Then we have 3 more games lasting 15 minutes each. The only "Church stuff" is when we pray over the food, and then we normally give a commercial at Story time about what's going on in our Main Service to entice the visitors to return! We charge $7.50 per child to come to Kid's Night Out. However, if they bring one visitor (has to be non-churched), they get in for $3.75. If they bring two visitors, they get in for free! Of course all visitors are free.
Moonlight Prayer Breakfast -- At Prayer Breakfast, we learn how, and how much to pray! This event usually runs from 2 to 2.5 hours. The first 30 min, we pray over the food and then all eat breakfast! After eating, we then began to teach the kids on "how" to pray. We have developed a prayer method called the "Picture Prayer". This method makes it easier to teach the smaller children who can't yet read, and also makes it easier for older children to remember. If you would like a copy of our teaching outline on the "Picture Prayer", simply email me for an electronic or mailed copy. We originally started this on Saturday mornings at about 8:30am. After moving it later a couple of times, we just were not satisfied with the low attendance. So we decided to try it on Friday evenings. This has worked much better! We still call it "Prayer Breakfast" though, which adds an element of fun. You see we encourage the kids to come dressed in pajamas, bathrobes, and slippers! We use what money we make off of Kid's Night Out to pay for the food for breakfast, so that everyone who comes is free.
Main Service -- The Main Service is the evangelistic, power packed, service on our kids level! In the Main Service, we start of with some loud, high tempo music that everyone is singing while coming in. During this time, the Power Team greets each of the kids individually. This means that each child will have been welcomed enthusiastically by a minimum of 5 people. Then, 5 minutes after the scheduled starting time of the service, we will sing our first Action Praise Song. Our Action songs are energetic, with motions, but most importantly, usher the kids into a time of Praise! This is followed by the Opening Prayer, which is always focused on the main lesson for that service. Then we do a Memory Verse, which is also focused on the main lesson. Of course we have to keep it interesting, so in doing the Memory verse, we have motions for the main words, and never do it the same way two weeks in a row! After this, we go to our second Action Praise Song. We then go to our announcement time. This starts off with everyone giving it up for Jesus, as loud and excitedly as we possibly can. We then go over our rules, and then tell the kids the announcements for events for them the next week. Now it's time for Offering! The kids bring their offering to the front, but always doing some action as they come. The action of course ties in with the lesson in some way. We have found that our offering size got better when we made it a rule that only those who have an offering get to come to front. Next we play a game. Sometimes the game will tie into the lesson, sometimes it is just action. This game is good for burning off energy to prepare them to listen better during the lesson. It is also good to encourage good behavior, and activity participation, as only those who have been good, and have been participating get a chance to be picked for the game. Now, to prepare for the lesson or message, we sing a Worship song. This is a slower song, with no actions. We will have the kids to close their eyes, raise their hands, and really connect with Jesus! Now the Evangelism (Preaching). We have series of Dramatized lessons, that will last for 8 weeks at a time. In between these series, we will do "Alternate Preaching" for 3 - 4 weeks. This Alternate Preaching will utilize various formats, mostly preaching bible stories, while having a few Team Members to act along. Then it's time for a Reunion with Jesus at the altar. We have all the kids come to the Power Zone, and there they connect with Jesus! The red words above are the order of our service. This main service is what we started with, and since, have kept the "P O W E R" Theme.
C.O.T.Y. -- Stands for Crossing Over To Youth, and is for kids 11 to 14 yrs. old. We started this project to help our kids make the transition into the next Pastoral group. As their Pastor for 9 to 11 years, they have come to trust the Team and me. They feel comfortable coming to us with their problems and situations. However when they reached 12 years old, they were out of Children's Ministry, and now in the Youth Group. This was a cold, friendless, scary world for most of them! They had been looking up to the older kids, which is what this new world was populated with, and could not think of them as friendly peers. In COTY, we meet once a month for teaching, and once a month for fun. At the teaching times, we teach these new teenagers the things they need for this new period of their life. Real topics such as dating, hygiene, manners, responsibilities, and more. At the fun times, we play games, sports, scrapbooking, and other various fun things, but we invite in some of the older members of the Youth Group, giving them a chance to make a friend that they will feel comfortable with at Youth functions. Our Youth Pastor has expressed what a help this ministry has been to him, in promoting more spiritually mature, young people.
Power Up! -- This is a Kids Club for kids 6 to 10 yrs. old. This is a club that we started to give us some more teaching time with a select age group in the Children's Ministry age. This club meets at least once a month for teaching, and once every couple of months for a Fun Day. In the teaching, we have learned how to be more welcoming and friendly to visitors, how to visit sick kids in the hospital, and even how to have compassion for others. We have encouraged these children, and they raised the money for a particular area of ministry. With the money raised, we bought individual Christmas Gifts for each child in Tupelo Children's Mansion. We then had a gift wrapping party, wrapped all the gifts, and then took a road trip, and hand delivered each of the gifts! The impact it had on our kids to not just raise money for some unknown entity, but to see the joy that their work brought to those children!!! This club is developing children who will be leaders in ministry in the church of tomorrow!
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