The Wheatland Mission

Elementary class starts again this weekend

Thanks for the welcome everyone! Leigh has done such a great job organizing things in the children’s ministry area that it makes it easy to step into the role she created. And so many of you are already plugged in and doing great work ministering to the kids – thanks for all you do! (By the way, if you haven’t figured this out yet, this is Kelly posting…not Paul. I got him to write me in the permissions so I can do my own posts to keep you updated on the children’s ministry stuff!)

This weekend we will get started back into the routine with the elementary kids. I know they have been in the service worshipping with their families for many weeks in a row now, so hopefully they are excited about having their own group time again. We’ll still have the elementary kids (kindergartners and older) start off singing with their families, then they will be dismissed after music to go back to their room. We’ll be doing this on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays each month. I’ll be teaching them this week and I’m looking forward to working with some great people who are interested in helping out with this age group. Hopefully we will be able to pick up some of the great ideas that Kris and Leigh have birthed regarding service projects and ministry opportunities that the kids (and everyone in the church!) can be involved in this spring. More on that later, but if you have ideas, or a desire to help, please let me know!

And just a quick note on the youth ministry end of things….last night the Hoyers and I took a few of our middle schoolers to a great city wide youth worship service! Several youth pastors in the Wichita area planned this event and it was a great success….a neat opportunity to get kids from many different churches and schools together to worship God and pray for their community. They are planning to do these every other month, and I believe the next one will be on the first Sunday evening in March. We’ll keep you posted!

posted by Kelly @ 6:04 PM