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Children’s Ministry: October

Dear Grace Family,

The Children’s Ministry department is celebrating Sunday School with a fun class in the Foundation Station (averaging about six children a week)  The newly remodeled Excavation Station has been enjoying their classroom, especially the hot chocolate and cider bar.  Please come visit and see for yourself how God is at work in the lives of Grace young people.

Messy Church gathered on Sunday, October 13, and gathers again on November 10.  We would love it if you could make the November service in order to meet some new faces to Grace Presbyterian Church.

As our families are working through their daily Bible readings, encourage them by sharing something you have learned in your own study.  This is a great way to get to know a young person and their family by discovering something you are both studying.  Thank you for continuing to pray for growing families as they work out their busy schedules and carve out space for faith and connection.

Jennifer

Messy Church

Messy Church: November 10

Messy Church happens at 4:30 pm on November 10. Invite your neighbors and friends to this fun, interactive hands-on ministry.  Dinner is served at 5:30 pm. This is our chance as a congregation to make a heart connection with our kids and families who may be new to our church or even new to Christian faith.

Passing on our story means that every believer gets the opportunity to share the ways in which God has rescued them.  Life is Messy, why should our faith be any different?

Visit the Excavation Station!

Here are five reasons to visit the brand new elementary ministry area called…The Excavation Station!  This ministry area was newly refurbished to create a space for our elementary kids to call their own.  But this is also a space for all friends of Grace to see and enjoy.  Below are just a few of our favorite reasons to visit.

  1. There are hidden scripture scrolls all over the room.  Can you find them all?
  2. A suspended Holy Land map wall to help your Christian story make more sense.
  3. Explore a reading nook built by Kim Alexander and Bill Vavra.
  4. A Hot Chocolate and Apple Cider bar!
  5. A chance to meet some incredible kids who are learning how to dig deeper into God’s word.

Big Thanks to Bill Vavra reading nook engineer, Kim & Chris Alexander acquisitions and staging, Reading nook engineer, and Marianne Burch staging.

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Please make a new blog using the same pictures from the last Excavation Station blog:

 

 

Visit the Excavation Station!

 

Five Reasons to visit the brand new elementary ministry area called…The Excavation Station!  This ministry area was newly refurbished to create a space for our elementary kids to call their own.  But this is also a space for all friends of Grace to see and enjoy.  Below are just a few of our favorite reasons to visit.

  1. There are hidden scripture scrolls all over the room.  Can you find them all?
  2. A suspended Holy Land map wall to help your Christian story make more sense.
  3. Explore a reading nook built by Kim Alexander and Bill Vavra.
  4. A Hot Chocolate and Apple Cider bar!
  5. A chance to meet some incredible kids who are learning how to dig deeper into God’s word.

Big Thanks to Bill Vavra reading nook engineer, Kim & Chris Alexander acquisitions and staging, Reading nook engineer, and Marianne Burch staging.

 

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Children’s Ministry News from Jennifer

The elementary children of Grace Presbyterian Church invite you to come and see their new ministry area…. The Excavation Station!  Please pop in between services on Sunday mornings or ask a staff member to show you around during the week. There are hidden scripture scrolls (try and find them), a map wall, reading nook and hot chocolate bar. The teaching team is excited about the ways in which this new area allows them to dig deeper into God’s word with Grace kids.

Messy Church is October 13 at 4:30 pm. Invite your neighbors and friends to this fun, interactive hands on ministry.  Dinner is served at 5:30 pm. This is our chance as a congregation to make a heart connection with our kids and families who may be new to our church or even new to Christian faith.  Passing on our story means that every believer gets the opportunity to share the ways in which God has rescued them.

Life is Messy, why should our faith be any different?

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Excavation Station

On Sunday, September 8, we unveiled the Excavation Station Sunday School Room.  For many years Room 206 was known as the Windjammer Room, and now it has new occupants and a new name.

A year ago we began to look closely at safety and security of our Sunday morning classes.  For many years older elementary children met for Sunday School in the Tower Room. It was decorated as a medieval tower and very fun. It was however, not the safest as there was no way out in a fire. The class that met up there began to meet in another second-floor room while a plan was made.

Pastor Jennifer Snook recruited woodworkers and artists to help turn Room 206 into an Indiana Jones type room for our children.  Throughout the spring and summer, construction, painting, and artifact acquisition took place. Now it’s ready for study, fellowship, and faith development. Stop by and visit!

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