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SSTN # 49 - June 9, 2006
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IN THIS ISSUE OF THE SSTN e-NEWSLETTER:
1) Fundraisers 2) Getting children to come on Sunday 3) Object Lessons? 4) Kiddie Camp
Get em' in the LOOP!
5) Fundraisers 6) Trash Object Lesson 7) Teaching About Zacchaeus? 8) Children's Day 9) Visual Teachings
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1) Fundraisers
If you have an Auto Zone in your area, check to see if they sponsor car washes. The one in my town supplies the water, hoses, sponges and soap. We used our own towels to dry off the vehicles. We charged $5 for cars, $7 for SUV's and trucks. All the profit goes to you and/or your organization. Plus, the Youth Group can help!! Hope this helps!
YSIC, Patty :)
--from SSTN: Even if you don't have something like an Auto Zone, our youth have set up a car wash after church on a Sunday at the back of the church parking lot. All you need is a hose, soap, some buckets, rags and willing kids. In the past they've sold tickets in the courtyard between services or they've accepted donations. ysic, sarah <><
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2) Getting children to come on Sunday
Oh it sounds as if you are in a difficult position. I have a couple of suggestions
Take the children to another church, one that is more welcoming! As a minister's wife I know how difficult this would be. However, the attitude of the folks at your own church is very harmful to these precious and fragile young people. I would be very honest if anyone asked why you were doing such a thing. Sometimes congregations have no idea that the things they are doing and saying are hurtful.
You might consider running a worship program for them on Sunday mornings, but that is a lot of work for you and it would mean that you couldn't go to church very often. You would need to be careful that you didn't get burnt out.
You may want to talk to your husband about moving. A congregation that has no vision for outreach, no heart for passing the faith onto young people, no compassion for children living in difficult circumstances isn't going anywhere and will be the source of great frustration. I speak from experience here!
Sharon
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3) Youth Object Lessons?
I too am looking for object lessons as Linda requested in one of the comments. Please anyone if you have any ideas on project lessons....lessons to young adult age...from twelve and up please send me some ideas.....thank you...diane
--from SSTN: check out the following youth resources on our bookstore's main page, "Wild Truth Bible Lessons" and "Dares From Jesus"
Also, if you type "Creative Bible Lessons" into the bookstore search box you'll find some great resources such as, "Creative Bible Lessons on CD-Rom" and "Creative Bible Lessons on the Life of Christ". Follow the link below:
Don't want to come across negative...having a Spend the night Kiddie Camp for those ages is a big responsibility, not only for you and the volunteers but your church's liability. Before we can volunteer, we go through a "keeping kids safe training" and a background check. There is too much in the news where children are molested or abused.
If you are wanting to give parents time out, why not do a date night once a week from 6 - 9:30 for awhile or VBS. I can't imagine those ages sleeping well away from home and then being manageable the next day to actually have a schedule that has a teaching environment.
Ann
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Get em' in the LOOP!
Invite your friends, pastors, and coworkers to get in the LOOP at the Sunday School Teacher's Network!
What's the LOOP?
L- leading kids to Christ! O- offering advice! O- open discussion forum! P- providing creative teaching resources!
> I just was asked to do this recently and I want to get other > ideas together for fundraisers that work.
A fundraiser that is successful and fun is a dessert auction. We held a fundraiser chili dinner in the fall immediately after the 11:00 worship service, asking everyone to bring a dessert to be auctioned off. We didn't serve dessert with the chili dinner, to encourage folks to stay and buy a dessert. As most folks were finished eating, a very outgoing church member as our auctioneer described each item and encouraged the bidding. We had all sorts of desserts from homemade to store-bought. It was very entertaining as various folks would try to out-bid each other for the most popular items. Some went for as high as $75! Our modest sized church about 300 active members) raised nearly $1000 for our youth to go on mission trips. We will definitely do it again.
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6) Trash Object Lesson
On object lessons on getting trash out of your lives:
Try using flashlights and let different members hold them. Some of the flashlights have batteries and some have other things inside such as small cars, candy, small action figures, coins, clothes for small dolls, etc that represent things in our lives. If your life is full of these things, your light will not shine for Jesus. If you have the power of Jesus in your life, your light will shine.
Also, the object talk with the rocks, gravel, sand, water. If you put in the sand, gravel rocks and water in that order, they will not fit, but if you put in rocks, gravel, sand, water, it will all fit. Object is to put the things that are most important(Gpd) in your life first and there will be room for other things. If you put other things before God, then there is no room for him.
Peggy
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7) Teaching About Zacchaeus?
Dear Sunday School Network:
Please share some nemonic activities for preschool on the subject of forgiveness or the story of Zacchaeus, and Jesus living forever. These seem to be difficult lessons for ages 3, 4, and 5. Thank you for a prompt reply.
Sue W. Page
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8) Children's Day
I am doing Children Day this Sunday. The theme surrounds teaching the children in the home. A couple kids are helping make announcements. One child is doing the main reading (Psalm 78:1-6). We have kids acting as greeters...they are to shake hands and tell people they are glad they came today. The kids are taking up the offering. Some of the kids are performing a skit to teach part of the lesson. I have one child reading Psalm 23 during prayer time and another leading the congregation with the Lord's Prayer. I also took pictures of them last week and they drew a picture of what they want to be when they grow up. We are going to put it in a powerpoint and will play either "Future Generations" or "I Can Only Imagine" in the background. The sanctuary will have helium balloons around it for gifts for the kids and decorations. As part of the sermon (based on Deuteronomy 6) the adults are going to be asked questions and given gifts (candy bars) from the kids for whoever answers correctly. My denomination (Nazarene) has a couple great DVD presentations on Connecting Generations and we will be presenting that during the service also. We try to do this once per year and the kids love it. It is a lot of work, but it usually comes out wonderful! Blessings Ann Salyer
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9) Visual Teachings
Are you asking about posters? After teaching for 26 years, I cleaned my closet and gave all my posters to our church, even though I will continue to teach in September. (They give the regular teachers the summer off since we teach every week during the school year). Anyway I got some of the posters from the curriculum from current and past years, also got some on e-bay and I did keep all my Abeka religious packets. (They have a lot of pictures in each packet and many subjects, such as Mose 1 and Mose 2, Christmas, etc.) I also got many of those from e-bay, but bought a few from the Abeka web site. God bless, Joni in CA
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