What's on my kidmin list this week? April 9, 2017

Sunday for children's worship we started a new Toy Box series and I set up the decorations on Saturday. It was lots of fun! The Etch A Sketch is crooked and it's annoying but it is what it is. Not one child commented on it and that's why I love kids.

The hit of the day was "The Claw" prize box. I'll share how it works soon in another post.

This week I have a variety of things to do and not sure what day they will happen so instead of a day by day outline I'm just going to list them:

make a toybox bulletin board for a prayer station. The idea is that the kids will write their prayer on a paper with a pic of a toy and place it in the toybox.
finish filling the Easter goody bags and set up the station for kids to pick them up on Sunday
get pics approved and processed for our kids facebook page
set up for Wednesday PowerSource
set up the DOT Store for Wednesday PowerSource (we didn't get it done last week!)
I have a week off of lessons because for Easter we are meeting all together so I hope to get ahead on some prep work.
data entry for our new child check in system. I'm so excited we will finally have a computer check in system. We are using Mudpies Creations and I really think it will be a good fit for us since the internet is so slow in our location. I'll update after we use it for a while.
planning for the VBS Conference that I teach later in the month.
rehearsal with the PIT Crew Saturday evening on a dowel rod song they are performing for Easter Sunday
Thankfully, we don't have an Easter Egg hunt at my church. If we did, then this list would look a lot different!

This is my kidmin list! I hope to get it all crossed off by Saturday evening and enjoy a nice Easter Sunday.

I pray that you have a wonderful Easter celebrating that JESUS IS ALIVE!

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