Learning Center This Week

THE TEACHING OPPORTUNITY schedule is now available for your sign-up. Please check the roster at fellowship hour on Sunday mornings to sign up. 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.

CHILDREN’S TIME will take place this Sunday, at a special outdoor worship service in the Cedar Chapel. All children will attend worship with families after which they will file into the Learning Center for their Kids’ Worship and class time.

BIBLE HYMNAL SUNDAY is coming up (October 20^th). If you have a 3^rd grader or an 8^th grader in your home who is due to receive one of these special books, please confirm with Miss Megan. The children will close this special service with a jubilant rendition of “Siyahamba” complete with rhythm instruments!

CHILDREN’S FALL CANNED FOOD DRIVE begins this Sunday. The children are asked to bring non-perishable goods to church with them every week to drop in the specially marked baskets in Farnum Hall and the Learning Center.

CHILDREN’S ADVENT MISSION PROJECT “The Changing Table”will begin on the first Sunday in Advent (December 1^st) and will run through December 23^rd. This is a diaper and wipes bank for community providers and families in need. All children and their families are asked to bring disposable diapers (all sizes) and wipes each week during Advent and drop them in the bassinet in Farnum Hall. The project is sponsored/managed by the United Baptist Church on Spring Street.

PUPPET SHOW UPDATE: You may have been expecting our “Nativity of Christ” puppet show to take place this December; however, in consideration of our 325^th anniversary, we have moved the puppet show to December 2020 to add to the year’s festivities. This has been accepted by the Christmas in Newport Board, and the calendar change will fit in nicely to our end of year anniversary events. Coincidentally, 2020 is also the 50^th anniversary of Christmas in Newport, so it will be an especially celebratory year.

Bible/Hymnal Sunday – October 20^th

Children’s Fall Food Drive – October 13^th – November 24^th

Miss Megan’s vacation – November 6^th – 20^th

Pilgrims’ Procession – November 24^th

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

Oberammergau Passion Play – June 2020