CALENDAR for FALL 2017 SPECIAL DATES Kids Central kicks off with games and fun on August 30 at 4:30. Our regular program will begin Sunday, October 29: Trunk Or Treat KIDS on September 6. At 6:00, parents and siblings Come dressed in your costume with a verse are invited to stay for Family Night Supper. memorized to get some candy! Please check your email for a link to register for CENTRAL Family Night Supper. November 15: Advent Adventure- 6:00 We get ready for Advent with a very short worship time September 6: Paul and the Shipwreck after Family Night Supper. The children will decorate the Fall 2017 • Optional 3rd- 5th grade hand bells/chimes: 4:00 Tree in the Fellowship Hall with their chrismons • “Paul” will pay the children a visit and talk to them and hang greenery. First Presbyterian Church Belmont about being shipwrecked November 22: No Kids Central- Thanksgiving September 13: Paul and the Shipwreck • Optional 3rd-5th grade hand bells/chimes: 4:00 November 29: Rehearse for Christmas Program • Games, crafts and lesson time December 6: Rehearse for Christmas Program September 20: : For Such a Time as This • Optional 3rd- 5th graders hand bless/chimes: 4:00 Sunday, December 10: Children’s Christmas • “Esther” or a member of her family will visit Program in worship September 27: Esther: For Such a Time as This December 13: Bethlehem Bound! • Optional 3rd-5th grade hand bells/chimes: 4:00 Family Night Supper, Goodbye to Mary and • Games, Crafts and lesson time Last Kids Central until January • 4th- 5th graders: Field Trip October 4: and the Whale • Optional 3rd-5th grade hand bells/chimes: 4:00 DATES CHOIRS SING IN WORSHIP • “Jonah” visits and talks about the whale. Trinity Choir & Hand Bells: 3rd- 5th grades October 11: Jonah and the Whale • October 15 • Optional 3rd- 5th grade hand bells/chimes: 4:00 • November 19 • Games, crafts and lesson time • December 10 Children’s Christmas Program October 18: The Fiery Furnace • Family Christmas Eve Service- 11:00 Optional 3rd- 5th grade hand bells/chimes: 4:00 • Alleluia Choir: 1st- 2nd grades • “” or one of his friends will visit • October 22 October 25: The Fiery Furnace • December 10 Children’s Christmas Program Optional 3rd- 5th grade hand bells/chimes: 4:00 • • Family Christmas Eve Service: 11:00 • Games, crafts and lesson time November 1: The Birth of Cherub Choir: Preschool 4’s- Kindergarten • Optional 3rd- 5th grade hand bells/chimes: 4:00 • December 10 Children’s Christmas Program • A member of John’s family will visit November 8: The Birth of John the Baptist • Optional 3rd- 5th grade hand bells/chimes: 4:00 • Games, crafts, lesson time November 15: Advent Adventure • Optional 3rd- 5th grade hand bells/chimes: 4:00 • Preschool 4’s- 3rd grade special Advent activities • 4th- 5th grades: Field Trip- Myrtle Terrace to deliver chrismons Kids Central is our Wednesday afternoon FAITH MILESTONES program in which our kids learn faith in God We have “Faith Milestones” for our children to through music, games, crafts, missions, achieve throughout their elementary school years, special events, field trips and fun! beginning with their baptism. If you would like to Ages: 4 years old by August 31, 2017 have your child baptized, please speak to through 5th grade Reverend Sam Warner or Reverend Daria Ragan and we will be happy to talk with you about it. You Time: 4:30-6:00- everyone and your child do not have to have been baptized 4:00-4:30- elective hand bells for to come to any of our programs or worship here in 3rd- 5th graders our church. Everyone is welcome! Our Faith Milestones are: • Kindergarten: Receive their first storybook Bible that they can read with parents; and learn the Lord’s Prayer GATHERING • 1st grade: Recite The 10 Commandments Each Kids Central begins with a gathering time • 2nd grade: Name the books of the Bible in in the Fellowship Hall, in which we have songs, order collect our offering, learn our Super Verse, our • 3rd grade: Receive a new Bible, take Super Truth and find out Chris and Joy’s Communicants’ Class dilemma for the week. • 4th grade: Acolyte training and service MISSION CURRICULUM: • 5th grade: Recite the Apostles’ Creed and Reaching out beyond our church to God’s SUPERBOOK ACADEMY assist with Children’s Church during the 10:30 hurting people is an important part of being worship service faithful . This year, we will learn about This year we will use the internationally award-winning Children will earn buttons when they complete a how many children in the world do not have curriculum, SuperBook Academy in Kids Central and in Faith Milestone. access to clean water, especially in Peru. Our Family Sunday School. SuperBook is a graphics- rich, fun mission partner is Operation Kid-to-Kid, and way to learn the stories of the Bible. Using phenomenal videos and graphics, children travel through a “time Disciples of are kind, caring and brave, so the children will watch videos and learn other the children will earn Roman coins when we see facts about clean water throughout the year. tunnel” back to the world of the Bible where they explore the people and historical background of a scripture them being disciples of Jesus. They can use the MUSIC passage. Children learn how to connect the stories to coins to “shop” at the “Marketplace.” their own lives in practical ways. There are creative Each week in choir, our 1st- 5th graders have games, great music, and fun crafts, all related to the Bible Our 4th and 5th graders will have the opportunity choir time with our new Director of Music passage for the week. to take field trips off campus during the year. In Ministries, Dongho Lee. They will sing in conjunction with our mission project of clean water, worship several times this fall. Our 3rd- 5th we hope to be able to take them to the Belmont graders can take an elective class in hand bells After having spent all day in school, our kids need Water Treatment Plant in September. and hand chimes from 4:00- 4:30. activities that keep them moving and engaged. So, this Our preschool 4’s and Kindergarteners have year we will have games outside, (weather permitting) fun choir with Margaret Wilkins and retired pastor crafts and drama. Adults will play Biblical characters like Reverend Ed Forsyth. They will also sing in Paul, Marcus and Lydia and the children will do drama worship this fall. also.