Time for the Little Orange Boxes!

Families, I Need Your Help…

Our church participates each year in collecting money for UNICEF through a program called Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF (you may recall the bright orange boxes). J

Dixie Tomasello puts together an October calendar every year to accompany the boxes as a fun way for children to collect coins. Each day has a suggested activity with a suggested coin amount.

Her hope is to include the children of our church in the calendar making process. We would like to cover all 31 days with suggested activities along with the name of the child that came up with the idea.

A few examples from past calendars:

*Give 5cents for each bottle of medicine in your house.

*Give 10cents for every pound you weighed when you were born.
*Give 1cents for every sock you own.
*Give 10cents for every box of cereal in your kitchen.

If you would like your child to participate, I will need all of the ideas by next Sunday preferably via email so I can send them directly to Dixie. This will be a fun way for the kids to see their name as well as see their friend’s name.

Thank you for your help!!

Kelly

bkbetz@hotmail.com

Check out Trick-or-Treating for UNICEF for more detailed information about UNICEF and all the ways they bless the children of the world.

Exciting Things for Next Sunday, 9/18!

Don't Forget...

The children will be singing in the first service THIS SUNDAY, September 18th. Please bring your child to the Fellowship Hall at 8:45am for regular drop off and we will see that they make it into the sanctuary for their song. They will be singing "Give Thanks".  Afterwards we will return to the Fellowship Hall to continue with our regualr Sunday School.

We had an amazing group last Sunday. We have started a new topic for the next few weeks:

Fruits of the Spirit

Galatians 5:22

Everyone was so excited about the games, fruit salads that they built themselves and learning all the names of the fruits of the spirit. See if your child can recall all of the fruits of the spirit (hint: there are 9 of them).

More great news.... After last week's Son Mart, our grand total of food collected by the children since Jnauary is....drum roll please....

 360!! WOW!!

Our Children's Ministry Vision Team will be meeting this Sunday, September 18th after the 2nd service to discuss the four main areas of Children's Ministry: Sunday school, Wednesday Kid's Group, Children's Church, & CEC. Have you been wanting to get involved but wasn't sure where to start? Come join us...we always have an open seat avialble for you!

See you Sunday!

Help Stock Our Food Pantry!

Our church continues to collect food for the North County Food Pantry run by C.R.O.S. Ministries. They are in need of specific food items that are used in every bag.  All food items can be brought to Sunday School this week in exchange for son dollars.

 Don't forget....SON MART is next Sunday 9/11/11!!!!

*Canned Meat

*Canned Vegetables

*Canned Fruit

*Cans of Soup

*Peanut Butter

*Tomato Sauce

*Rice

*Macaroni & Cheese

*Dried or Canned Beans

See you Sunday!!!

Back-to-School Breakfast

The SUMMER was full

         of sand and sun

But now it’s time to return to

      all the SCHOOL FUN!

All ages are invited to attend…

 

“I Am a Friend of God”

 

3rd Annual

Back-to-School Breakfast

Sunday, August 21^st at 9:00 a.m.

First United Methodist Church

of Jupiter-Tequesta

(Fellowship Hall)

This is an event for everyone! It will be a time of breakfast, fellowship, crafts, recognizing each student and praying for the students as we help to support and surround them with love for their new school year. Please make plans to join your child at this very special event. This will be in place of our regularly scheduled Sunday school classes.

Hosted by the Education Team at FUMC of Jupiter

New Blog - Yahoo!

Welcome to our new blog site for the children’s ministries at First United Methodist Church of Jupiter-Tequesta! Our hope is that this will be a one stop place for you and your family to keep you informed and up to date on all the happenings for your child at the church. Check back regularly as we will be adding more information to the site as well as announcing new activities and programs coming to our church very soon! If there is something missing that we can add to the site to make it more informative or user friendly, please let us know so we can make it happen. This is truly a team effort!

The final VBS supplies are being packed away and just in time as next year’s them was unveiled yesterday, July 1^st. Believe it or not…plans are already underway. If you have any suggestions and/or ideas or if you would like to be a part of the planning process, let us know!!

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL 2012:

Operation Overboard

Dare to Go Deep with God!

(Click on the link above to get more information.)

We look forward to partnering with all of you in ministry!

Kelly

For more volunteer information or if you have questions, please contact Kelly Betz at 561-575-3501 or bkbetz@hotmail.com or the church office at 561-746-8116.