Gearing Up for a New Season of Children's Church

Well, summer's about over and for the first time ever, we are ahead of the ball game concerning Children's Church (we call it Kid Zone). We actually have things planned out and outlined through December. Now I've still got scripts to write and multi-media to do, but with the ideas in the bag, the scripts come pretty easy.

We are still running four themes (one for each week of the month). We have a space theme which is like Star Trek meets Gilligan's Island; a Diner theme - think Alice (if you're old enough); A Western theme which is really a stagecoach outpost and finally a backyard club house detectives theme. This year we made sure each theme actually had a running story line which has made planning and writing scripts much easier.

We've still got some set items to redo - we are keeping the sets from last year, just tweeking them a bit. This year we are going to drop our 1st service Kid Zone - just not having enough kids to make it really work. So, for the first time, our Kid Zone teams nearly filled up with volunteers in one day. That just means we've got teams of people who really want to be a part of Kid Zone. This year's teams are looking to be mainly youth (5th-9th graders) and a few adults sprinkled in for good measure.

Hope your plans and curriculums are coming along, also. May God bless your Fall season!
Greg

New Website Blog

Well, I've gotten better at my personal blogs, so I thought it was time I worked on a ministry blog for this site. I hope it will serve as another tool of helping other children's ministers and maybe getting help for me, too.