iKidmin

...you are teaching children's church and using the "wordless" book.  As you are turning from the black page of "sin" to the red page of "blood" a kid blurts out, "and He gave us all red necks!"

Wednesday we had our annual birthday party for Jesus.  No photographer for that. :( But I did manage to snap a picture of my little friend helping me get the goody bags together. She's so organized. She had a little system going in no time.  C you are my hero.  Sorting Goodies Goody Bags I think they turned out cute and she helped me so much. Thank you C! We put a balloon and some other candy and trinkets in each bag.  You are never too old for a balloon.  They loved them! I wish I had pictures of the cupcakes one of the other leaders made.  Ah well, I tell ya, I am always too busy to stop and take pictures. We began with PIZZA!  Yeah! Then a puppet skit and the Christmas story, followed by a game involving candy, ended with cupcakes and the goody bags.  We had more planned, but ran out of time. One hour just isn't long enough. I was given a "goody bag" by a couple of the kids, this makes it all worthwhile does...

We had two photographers taking pictures and there were tons of great ones!  But many have faces of kids and I don't feel comfortable sharing them here.  So here's just a few just to give an idea of the fun we had. :) It was a blast!!! Two of my kids and me at the photo booth :) Rock Stars! Cute sheep! Angels Praising! "Ramona" meeting Baby Jesus Wise Men ???

Whew!  We did it! Our Family Event was a great success!  We had so much fun and I wasn't stressed or running around like a chicken with it's head cut off.  That's always nice. Don't get me wrong I was busy, but since I had things previously organized, it was a breeze.  I even had a few minutes to sit down and chat!  Yeah! I don't have a single picture of my "done" list (I don't even know where it is!), my cute gifts I made for the leaders, or anyone doing anything!  I was just too busy to think of it, which is why I farmed out the photography to two young ladies in our congregation who are into photography.  They took tons of great pictures and we even had a family photo booth during the cast party.  I won't be able to share them all here because of privacy protection, but hopefully there will be a few that I can share over the next few days. Anyway, here's how the evening went: It started at 3:00 PM for me.  My son and our stude...

I got a lot done yesterday and this morning! While I'm not a paid children's worker, I do work two days in my church office serving as an admin assistant.  So when there's no pressing church business I get a chance to work on kidmin stuff. It is such a blessing to be able to get some of those tasks done, while having access to the resource room, computers and printer/copier. I thank God for that opportunity to get some things done.  And of course my pastor doesn't mind. Especially since he's out of the office this month substitute teaching.  While he's out, I have less to do. ;) My updated to do list! Whoo Hoo!   OCD Alert! Supply baskets ready to go! My *new* to do list.   This one looks quite different.  I don't know about you but my lists can take many forms. Sometimes I type them up and print them out as in this case, sometimes I just use good ol' pen and paper as above, and now sometimes they are on my iphone, or a ta...

Christmas is a busy time in kidmin.  I happen to be a Sunday school teacher, as well as a children's church leader (on rotation) and December is my month in GF Kids' Club, as we like to call it. We have our annual Family Event coming up on the 15th, we started this a few years ago in place of the traditional children's program. Group came out with an awesome resource for this and we tried it.  It was a huge hit!  Only problem was, they only had the one set. The whole thing was a blast and the families loved it!  We had a family join just because of that program.  It gave them insight to our church and our love for each other. :)  I'd call that a success. We used this in 2010 and 2012.  For 2011 we sort of did our own thing and it was okay, but it's a blur for me because I was sick and missed it. :( We were so excited to discover that Group had a new theme this year! Bethlehem Bound Group.com The thing that is so great about this prog...

Can you say excited? It's taking all my self-control not to dig into it! I have to get through the Christmas Events first!!!! 

I started out with a plethora of ideas for posts. Now that I'm staring at the blank page. I'm drawing a blank. >blink blink< Maybe I should just dive right in. What is on my kidmin to do list today? purchase and put together goodie bags for my Sunday school class.  communicate with Student pastor & worship leader about "Family Christmas Event" on Sunday go to post office and pick up a package waiting for me....wonder what it will be??? read through and make final notes on what I need to do Sunday for the Event All of this in the midst of chores, errands, Christmas decorating, cleaning, homeschooling, helping my hubby, cooking and at some point taking a break! Did I mention listening to my music for the Christmas Cantata?  No, well add that too. :)

We had some bad weather over the weekend so I only had three students today.  In Texas we usually get ice, not snow.  That was the case this week.  Cold, freezing ice. That's okay, these boys were excited to help wash windows!   We are learning to apply the Bible to our life, we learn from Jesus' stories and experiences.  So we decided to help out around the church and do a little cleaning.  These boys have such servant hearts. :)

My Sunday school class chose four projects to complete for the next four Sundays. 1. Helping others 2. Sharing with others 3. Forgiving others 4. Loving others I think I will post each week to show what we did to accomplish these goals.