May 23 Meeting Notes

You can get a copy of the May 23 Meeting Notes here.

Comments,  welcome!!

VBS Planners Meeting Notes From May 9

Overview

Our vacation Bible school will complement our theme for MWLTC this year. In our VBS, we will be going on a Mystery Journey with the help of Scooby Doo, or some alternative spelling and character. Scooby is always afraid. We will learn that the Mystery of our journey is faith, and that when we have faith, we can be brave and trust in God, we can choose to obey God, and we can serve others to encourage them to serve God. Scooby will be used to introduce the idea of each day through drama in the initial gathering. Students will then enjoy classes appropriate to their ages on Bible Characters who trusted God, obeyed God, and shared the news about God. Then we desire to transition to a special journey each day to a country (one of our classrooms) set up to represent a country in which our congregation does mission work. Our students will not only learn about missionaries and their culture they serve, but also be inspired to become missionaries themselves – even when they go home, to their neighborhood or to school.

 Documents to Review

• Curriculum Proposal
• Daily Schedule Proposal (tentative)

Suggestions From May 9 Meeting

Present: Rusty Maynard, David Pollard, Walt & Shirley McIndoo, Kim McNeill, Tracy Shaffer, Bonny Peterson & Susan Melcher.  Helping but not available for this meeting: Kimberly Maynard and Tony & Melody Ayres.

This group is primarily interested in the curriculum, classes, and activities. Another group will need to work on food concerns and other needs.

The idea of the Journey of Faith with Scooby was well received. Also,  including a transition to visit a mission field each day was also exciting.  Assuming we use rooms 100-102 for the Mission Field destinations, we only will have 114 for Adults.  Walt volunteered to work on the adult curriculum.

Room solutions (we think we will use every room in the building this year): We could take the library table out of the library to make another small room or use the coat closet as a room in a pinch.  Could we use tents in the main areas for the kids to cluster in and get a feel for traveling? (Nature Party in tents). Could be in the gym or some other area. Not only give a feel for travel – but can help with management as well.  

Craft Suggestion: Packing a suitcase activity. The placemat idea the Ayres are developing was also well received as an activity and a way to help parents be informed and included in the lessons.

Bible Stories Discussion: The curriculum chart proposals works well with themes and connections, but there was discussion about using a variety of Bible stories. Joseph is a main character in Genesis, and I leaned heavily on him in our stories. However, we did the life of Joseph within recent memory for a VBS. It was proposed that we use the life of Moses instead, which the group believes will flow into the Trust,  Obey, and Share the News framework.  Several in the group took it as an item to work on for the next meeting.

Next Meeting:  May 23, 6:00-6:50.

VBS 2012

We have had two meetings about VBS 2012. 

View the notes from those meetings here.

• VBS 2012 will be Sunday, July 29 to Wednesday August 1.
• We will meet from 6:00-8:00 p.m. with a worker meal from 5:00-6:00.
• Theme will involve Scooby Doo helpling us along the way as we build faith in our kids.
• Begin a T Shirt/Logo Design right away with a January target for T Shirts for advertising, etc.
• Begin mapping out the main thoughts for curriculum development.
• Start talking in our circles to connect with LTC and build excitement in the church.

Love to have your thoughts and input. Leave a comment!

Guffey Acres Corn Maze - October 7, 2011

Teacher's Meeting

We had a fantastic time with our teachers and children's worship leaders on October 2. It is such a blessing to have so many people who want to love kids one step closer to Jesus!

Go to the Teacher Zone for the Notes

Teacher Zone Notes

Our VBS Lunch

We chose to celebrate and appreciate the many volunteers who helped us with our Vacation Bible School this year. You can get more details on that at the 2011 VBS Recap. A bunch of kids and some awesome adults pitched in to help prepare, serve, and honor our fabulous volunteers. Thanks everyone!

Center Road Kids

I am really blessed with the wonderful children and families we have at Center Road. Our fall classes are now started—and  I can’t wait each week for the kids to arrive. Our children’s worship is also going very well. I am so encouraged by the teachers and children’s worship leaders. We have a few openings for the rest of this year in children’s worship—if you can help out. Here are some other plans in the works for kids (and their parents and leaders) at Center Road.

O Mini Golf, Sunday Afternoon, 9/26. info & signup in cafe

O TEACHERS Lunch—October 2—get updates and give feedback to me in an hour or less...

O Hayride, Sunday Afternoon, 10/16. info & signup in cafe

O Guffey Acres Corn Maze, Friday Evening, 10/7 (note change of date)   info & signup in cafe

O Family Game Night, Saturday Evening, 11/5.  info & signup in cafe

O Winter Wonderland, Sunday Afternoon, 12/4.  info & signup in café

O LTC for kids 3rd-12th Grade will be beginning in the next few weeks. We have several resources for studying Genesis already available.

Be sure to check out the childrens section on the church website. That section is a new site just for the kids ministry at Center Road. Please know that I pray for you. If you have any question, concern, or suggestion—please contact me anytime.

honored to serve with you