Learning Center This Week

WE’RE ALL TEACHERS! Thank you to all who volunteered to teach during the month of December and to those who seem to magically show up on Sunday mornings to help. We need everyone’s help. The teaching sign-up roster is displayed at fellowship hour every Sunday morning. We need a minimum of six teachers every week to make our LC lessons happen, so please do sign up for a week, a month, or a quarter – whatever works best for you – to serve our children. PLEASE … WE ARE IN GREAT NEED for the new year. Thanks!

THE CHILDREN’S ADVENT MISSION PROJECT “The Changing Table” is running through December 23rd. This is a diaper and “wipes” bank for community providers and families in need. All diapers and wipes should be disposable. The project is particularly in need of size 5 and 6 diapers, and “Pull-ups” (all sizes). Children and their families are asked to bring their donations of disposable diapers and wipes each week during Advent and drop them in the bassinet baskets in Farnum Hall. The project is sponsored/managed by the United Baptist Church on Spring Street and they have enthusiastically thanked us in advance for our efforts.

CHRISTMAS EVE children’s worship (5 PM) will include a lullaby, sung by the children, for the baby Jesus. Parents, you will receive the music and lyrics by e-mail this week so that you can practice together at home!

THE NEW YEAR in the Learning Center will take us back in time with a continuation of last year’s Old Testament studies. We call it OT in the LC! Be sure your children take advantage of the exciting stories and activities we will find in the Old Testament.

YOUTH FUNDRAISING EVENTS that we love are coming up soon. Watch the calendar for “Superbowl Grinders”, “The Great Chili Cookoff”, and the return of “Designer Spuds”. These programs not only support our kids’ activities, but they are great fun for the church family and nurture our sense of community.

MELANCHOLY fills my heart these days as we move through the second half of this school year. Each event and lesson that I share with our children until June 2020 is my last in this phase of my life. Until then, I’m treasuring every minute, every Sunday, every Circle Time, every event, every child, every …

Children’s Advent Mission Project “The Changing Table” – December 1^st – December 23^rd

Children’s Christmas Eve Service – December 24^th, 5 PM

Family Sunday – December 29^th

Upcoming 2020 Educational Opportunity (please contact Megan for more info)::

Oberammergau Passion Play – June 2020