On September 21st we will have our annual teachers meeting and need parent volunteers to help in the classrooms. Each class will have a snack and a special movie to watch. There is no teaching involved on this day. If you would be able to help in a classroom during first or second service on the 21st, please let me know ASAP. I appreciate it!
We are looking for some teachers for this fall (preschool class) and nursery volunteers. If you would be interested or know someone else looking for a place to serve at MVBC, please contact Jeni Gibbs at Jeni.Gibbs@MoonValleyBible.org
Thank you!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
A new playground
We will be building a new playground! This playground will be for our older toddlers, Preschoolers and Kindergarten age children. It will be filled with Lil Tykes type play equipment. It will be a fun, safe, fenced in play area closer to their classrooms. We are excited to get this project started. Each child can be a part of the Playground process by selling the Deck. The Deck offers many deals for restaurants and attractions around Arizona. See Gina Orr or myself for more information on the Deck. You can pick up a Deck order form in your child's class. We will sell the Deck through September. If you do not want to participate in selling the Deck but would like to purchase one, you can do that in the lobby at the children's table or see Jeni Gibbs or Gina Orr.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Looking to serve?
Have you been asking yourself, "How can I serve others in my church?" Well, I might have an answer for you.
We have many openings in our Children's department. Would you consider teaching or being a helper in a class? Maybe cuddling babies is what you love. Please see me or Gina Orr if you are willing to help reach the next generation by volunteering in Children's Ministry.
Don't forget to sign your children up for Small Groups. Our Small Groups will start on Wednesday, September 3rd. If you did not receive a registration packet in the mail , no worries! You can get one here at the church.
You can still bring in school supplies for Moon Mountain Elementary school. There is a collection box in each classroom.
Have a great week!
We have many openings in our Children's department. Would you consider teaching or being a helper in a class? Maybe cuddling babies is what you love. Please see me or Gina Orr if you are willing to help reach the next generation by volunteering in Children's Ministry.
Don't forget to sign your children up for Small Groups. Our Small Groups will start on Wednesday, September 3rd. If you did not receive a registration packet in the mail , no worries! You can get one here at the church.
You can still bring in school supplies for Moon Mountain Elementary school. There is a collection box in each classroom.
Have a great week!
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
School
Well, if your children have not started school yet, chances are they are starting on Monday. Many of you have children starting Kindergarten. With the first day of Kindergarten comes mixed emotions. Our babies are growing up and gaining more independance. Some children will bounce into the classroom while others will need to be pushed. However the first day may go, I am reminded of a poem I'd like to share with you.
All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life-learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned-the biggest word of all - LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living. Take any of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if all--the whole world--had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had a basic policy to always put thing back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are-when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten
Robert Fulghum
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life-learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned-the biggest word of all - LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living. Take any of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if all--the whole world--had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had a basic policy to always put thing back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are-when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
For those of you who have children who do not attend school yet, dont blink! It will be time before you know it.
I'd love to hear your first day of school stories. You can e-mail me here at the church if you have a story that you would like to share.
Have a great day!
Jeni
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