One Last Reminder Before Christmas

Hello boys and girls,

I wanted to give you one last reminder, to read the Christmas story on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning. This is one of the ways we can show our thankfulness to Jesus for coming into this world. The story of the birth of Jesus can be found at -  

Matthew 1:18-25 Birth of JesusChrist

Matthew 2:1-12 The Magi

Luke 1:26-38 Birth of Jesus Foretold

Luke 2:1-20 Most Well Known Version of the Birth of Jesus Christ

I hope each of you, has a wonderful Christmas and are able to enjoy the great blessings God has given us all.

God Bless You!

Chris

HELP! We Need a Name for our new Children's Church

It is time to choose a name for our new children's church. If any of our kids would like give an idea for the name of our new children's church please let me know no later than December 7 . I will let the kids know what our top 5 choices are and then they can vote for the new name on December 14. Remember that our new set will focus around drama and bible stories, object lessons and as always there will be lots of singing. Puppets will also be an important part of our kid's church plus lots of kid participation. The new name will be announced in January at a special Sunday morning service. All of our adults, with the choir Bro. Ron all of the kids and everything else will move over to the gym for the official kick off of the new children's church.

Children's Church Message 11-16-08

Today was a great day in children's church, we had a big crowd of kids and they were very excited for some reason today. During our music time we did some of the kids favorite songs. We started off with Jesus will pick you up, and then Jesus you're my Superhero, our worship song was He knows my name.

Here is the video of Superhero that we used during worship.



Today's message was on using the tools that God has given you. God has given all of us tools to do different things, all of which are to build up the Body of Christ (others and God). Some have the ability to draw, to teach, to sing, to build things, to write stories, to dance, to help people, to play an instrument, to work on cars, to paint, to understand difficult things, to talk to people, and many other things. God word tells us to do all that we do to the Glory of God. That means we Get to Praise God in Everything We Do!!! That is AWESOME! Every type of work may not be "church work", but it can be done with the best attitude possible and to the best of our ability so that we might please God. If you have a job doing something, do your best. If you are trying to find out how you can serve God in you church, you may want to see if you can use the skills you have from your job in the church in any way. If you are a teacher, you could teach a class or help train others. If you work on cars, you could drive the bus or help maintain it. If you are in construction, you could help build sets at Christmas time or Easter for plays. Never forget that we are always in training for the service of God.


This is a video that goes right along with this message, the parable of the talents.

Children's Church Message 11-02-08

Today was an exciting day. We were able to move back into the gym and have children's church with the help our brand new set. I will post pictures as soon as possible. As the weeks go on the set will be used for puppets, kids singing, drama, video and much more. All of the improvements that have been made in this ministry have been made to help kids come to a closer relationship with out Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Here are the notes for children's church this morning.

Consider Your Wealth

Haggai 1:5-6 pg 920 nlt Consider your ways, You have planted much, but harvest little

Act 20:35 Paul said ....It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Romans 12:6-10 pg1119 nlt

God has given us gifts so we may give to others in service to Him.

I feels nice to receive a gift, doesn't it?
It doesn't take long for that feeling to go away because we always seem to want more.

What does it feel like to give a gift?
How long does that feeling last?
To see the look on someone's face when they are given a gift can be a huge blessing, that can last a lifetime.

I believe that God has built into us the desire to give. He has given us the greatest gift of His son Jesus as an example of how much we should be willing to sacrifice to meet the needs of others.

The nice feeling should not be the motive of our giving. Serving God and actually wanting to serve others should be our motive. I believe it is not enough to only want to serve God in giving to others, because we can easily only go through the motions and not care for those we are serving and just try to please God.
It is also not enough to only try to serve others. We must want to serve the LORD God as we serve others, because He must be the most important part of everything we do.

God gave Jesus, not out of duty, but out of genuine love for each one of us.

John 3:16

Children's Church Message 10-26-08

Today in children's church we talked about a portion of Revelation 19:6,7 that reads "Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. 7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him" The main part of this passage we talked about was the word "omnipotent" and what that word means. The kids thought that the words "powerful", "greatest", and "awesome" described the word omnipotent. As we continued on we talked about what each of us thinks God looks like. We had some great answers to that question, as you can imagine. We then moved into how our awesome God is the great artist that created all of creation including his greatest work of art "US." If you want to see how detailed He made us, put your face in front of the mirror and look as close as you can into your eyes. Notice the layers of detail and workmanship He has put into just that one part of us. God is AWESOME!

Take a look below at how some other kids answered the question "What does God look like?"

Children's Church Message 10-19-08

Children's Church Message 10-19-08
In children's church we spoke about friends that sometimes may mislead us and possibly even put us in danger. Only through God and His word can we find the true way to go. We can not place our faith in men, because they will let us down. Some on purpose and some by mistake. Hebrews 13:5 . . . God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” In Luke 15:3-7 we read the parable of the lost sheep. “Then Jesus told them this parable: ‘Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, “Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.” I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent’" This parable shows us the importance of each of us in the eye of God.

Give Him Praise !!!
Chris

Friendship Illustration:


Lost Sheep Illustration:

Basketball Sign-Ups

Join us for another exciting season of
Basketball & Cheerleading

Kindergarten - 12th Grade

Sign-Up at Harvestfest on
October 31 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Additional sign-up days are

Saturday November 1, 8, & 15
9am - 12pm
in the Gym

Exciting Times Coming Soon!!!

Hello everyone and welcome to the new blog for the Children's Ministry of South Seminole Baptist Church. There are some great and exciting things that are coming up for the children of our church. As many of you may know, we have been working very hard to complete the new Children's Church set. This new set will give our kids an opportunity to see the "Word of God" be brought to life as they lift Jesus up in songs of praise, as they see puppets involved in music and in skits, as the children themselves take part in acting out many of the Bible stories, while they also get to experience lots of unique object lessons, and of course there is the 8 foot tall Bible that will help present God's Word in an exciting way. In addition to the Upgrades in our Sunday morning Children's Church we also are updating our entire Children's Department in the educational wing of the church. The nursery has recently been completed and it looks beautiful. The classrooms have been totally redone from paint to fixtures to toys it looks great. The older kids classes are now being started on and will have a small town theme when completed. I hope parents and kids alike will get involved in this wonderful ministry. God is doing some great things!
Check back often, updates will be made as much as possible.

Give Him Praise!!!

Chris