What’s all the fuss about Easter?

What is Easter all about? Why do we have hot cross buns? Why are there pictures of a cross? Why do we have eggs? Why are the chicken and rabbit a symbol of Easter? Why did Jesus have to die? Is Easter a sad or happy time?

All of these questions and more have been answered in Little Knights over the past few weeks. It was awesome to come up last Sunday and see the kids having hot cross buns with strawberry jam, and even have several of them explain why there are crosses on the buns. It’s great to see that even some of the littlest in our church community can have a concrete, real understanding of the significance of Easter.

So if, while the eggs are being passed around, your children inform you of the reason why we as Christians should give eggs to each other, DON’T BE SURPRISED :) !

Family Games Cafe

Family Games Cafe is a new event which has the aim of providing an opportunity for families and friends to socialise and spend some quality time together doing something which all ages will enjoy. Feel free to come along. The games which will be provided are not your normal run of the mill Hasbro games, but actually come from a very popular genre called designer games. All of these game rely on skill rather than luck, and there are a variety ranging from Go Away Monster which is suitable for two year olds, right up to games which will perplex experienced chess players (Through the Desert will suit people of this mindset), as well as games where you can be knights, gunslingers, real estate dealers, or even bean farmers...

Cafe facilities will be available (i.e. there WILL be good coffee.)

Come along for a great time.

MI Kidz!!

Team night!!

Team night is on tomorrow night @ Church of Christ for Friday Knights. It should be an absolutely fantastic night - and as the kids are going to be dressed up as superheroes, don't worry too much if they want to wear their y-fronts on the outside! Watch this space for photo evidence (i.e. the kind that comes out at a child's 21st birthday party....)

God’s Amazing Creations - Little Knights Term 1

Genesis 1 – The creation story

Over the first few weeks of 2007 Little Knight’s are marvelling at how creative our God is. We are watching in awe the development of a Monarch Butterfly. As the caterpillar grows and develops into a beautiful butterfly, God too created us to grow and develop into his beautiful creation.

“When he had finished, God saw that everything he made was very good.” (Gen 1:31)

Mission 1:8

MI Kidz is absolutely rocking along... the kids were able to decode a particular challenging activity (many of the leaders looked like they had completed a five star difficulty Soduku by the end...) in order to recieve their mission card!!

Coming up, the Kids Church kids are going to continue to recieve spy gear as the term goes on...

(Oh and BTW the memory verse for this term is Acts 1:8, but it is on a need to know basis only...)

Spy Kids...

The first MI: Kidz week seemed to be a great success, with the drama being a highlight. The drama revolves around two everyday, normal kids, James and Ruby, who are contacted by HQ to go on a mission to save the world...

Just continue to encourage your kids to come dressed in sunglasses and spy gear, and ask them what they remember and most like about kids church on Sunday. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Finally, Friday Knights starts up again on 7 February @ the new venue of Church of Christ on Yarrow Street. The theme is Mission: Impossible and should tie in really well with the Sunday program. Year 5-8 students should wear dark clothing, and may get a little messy...

Thanks for being so supportive over the last couple of weeks, and I look forward to continuing to see what exciting things God has in store for this awesome ministry in the coming months.