Cell - August 29
Saturday, August 30, 2008
This week we celebrated (so to speak) the end of summer and fifth Friday with a movie night for both cell groups. With the youth away on their fifth Friday event, the Children's Network took over the church.
We watched The Game Plan, a great movie starring Duane (The Rock) Johnson. I like this movie because it really reinforces not only how important family is, but the "power of the father" in a child's life.
Next week we're back to normal for Friday night. Don't forget Monday, Sept 1 is the church picnic and baptism at Seaside Park.
Sept 7th we will be starting morning Sunday School at 9:30 and also rolling out the expanded children'd ministry during the service. More on that later.
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Monday, August 25, 2008
The kids have done a great job over the past couple of weeks. Tabitha, Anna and Cailynn from Sister Anita's cell sang a special song at the monthly joint service at Beacon of Light in Waterbury.
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Cell - August 15
Friday, August 15, 2008
Things are moving along on the kids evangelism project. After giving them a quick primer on storytelling (protagonist/antagonist, conflicts, story structure) they set out to draft a basic plot. We decided that there will be a theme song, and the idea is to get the kids to perform the song themselves. Which means... me teaching some music! We'd like to film some at the church picnic on Sept, 1, so pray wer'e ready. It will be the "big" scene if we can pull it off.
Sister Anita was working on some new songs with her cell. Can't wait to hear it!
Remember that pre-service Sunday School will start coinciding with the next session of School of Leaders in September.
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Cell - August 8
Friday, August 8, 2008
Here we are on 08-08-08.
The kids brought in their script treatments. I must say, they were pretty good. We will probably combine a few of the ideas, but the evangelism movie will be bigger in scope than I thought.
The kids were sent home with the assignment of writing a short essay on "Who I am in Christ." This will form the basis of a testamony segment.
Next week we will finalize a storyboard, and work on a shooting script. If we can have it done by Halleluia Night, that would be cool.
We also reviewed what was learned last week about the Fivefold ministry, and did some bible word games.
The younger cell will be ministering in song on Sunday!
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Cell - August 1
Friday, August 1, 2008
August already... time really does fly.
As we enter the last leg of the summer, it's time to start thinking seriously about doing the Lord's work. Already we are planning Halleluia Night, the Christmas Cantata, and another Children's Encounter.
Tonight the 10-12 cell spent time speaking about the Fivefold ministry, especially the office of "evangelist." I asked them for some practical ways that we could reach out to other kids their age. They brainstormed a lot of different ideas - developing games, a play, music, videos, webpages. The kids are obviously very aware of the importance of media and Web 2.0.
I think we settled on a video or short movie. So I assigned them to do a script treatment - to come up with an idea, story, concept, and put it on paper, and bring it in next week. We'll decide on something to do then.
Since the youth are having a Fifth Friday event this month, we will, too. I'm thinking of a movie night in the church, but I will post it when it's finalized.
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