FUMC Minden Children's Ministry

10/27/2022

5th Sunday One Service Reminder!
**No children’s Sunday School

Sunday, Oct 30th is our Commitment Sunday at FUMC. We encourage everyone to attend our combined service at 10:30 am and return your "Estimate of Giving Card". We will have a fish fry in the Fellowship Hall following the service. All are welcome!

08/28/2022

Today we celebrated our acolytes with a special trip to Splash Kingdom! These kids are true servant leaders! So grateful for each of them and their willingness to serve!

08/22/2022

08/12/2022

Sunday will be a big day @ FUMC!
🎒🎒Bring your backpacks in the morning as we welcome a new school year with our annual blessing of the backpacks!
☀️☀️Then trade that backpack for a beach towel and join us for a family event as we say goodbye to summer with pizza, drinks, swimming, volleyball, and corn hole @ the Benton’s!
Message for the address and with any questions!

07/22/2022

Camp Create Recap Day #5
Last Day, Best Day!
✔️Met Peter and learned he walked on water because Jesus was the Ringmaster of his life
✔️Became tight rope walkers and learned we can do anything if we keep our eyes up and on Jesus
✔️Made clown self-portraits because with Jesus in charge we are free to have fun and spread joy
✔️Learned how to make balloon art
✔️Snowballs from TC’s Snowball stand 😋

Finally, a great big shout out to our fearless art teacher Chrissy Lee Williams and assistant Mrs Julie Benton. Mrs Amy McGill our car line, Circus, and Free-Time supervisor. And our decorator/photographer/right hand woman Lindsey Meade Goodman. It’s SO much fun working with such fabulous ladies!! Already looking forward to working with y’all again next year…and all the sleep we will get between now and then 😅🤪

07/21/2022

Camp Create Recap Day 4
✔️Represented our circus troupe’s color and wore our “weirdest” hair
✔️Met Deborah the bearded lady who wasn’t bearded after all but she WAS the first to be a judge AND prophet AND she was a woman….wow!!!
✔️Learned to replace “Weird” with “Wow” because God gave us unique gifts and features for a reason
✔️Tried out a unique circus skill….hula hooping
✔️Showed off our “weirdest….wowest” talents in a talent show

Shout outs for Day 4 go to Amy Henry our hula hoop expert and our AMAZING troupe and ring leaders!!! These youth and college volunteers did a phenomenal job of making sure all of our kiddos were seen and loved well all week!! They have true servant hearts and are willing to do whatever is needed of them. This week truly could not happen without each one of them!

07/20/2022

Our Camp Create Drama Class production of the great escape artists Paul and Silas!

07/20/2022

Camp Create Recap Day #3
✔️Met Paul and learned that he and Silas were escape artists
✔️Had a contortionist contest
✔️Learned that God created us to be free not boxed in and He is so creative that He can make a way where there seems to be no way
✔️Watched our puppet head theater version of our Bible story
✔️Watched a magic show by Louisiana Dan The Great
✔️Learned a magic trick
✔️Made a lot of watermelon disappear

Day 3 Thank you’s go to Louisiana Dan for an awesome Magic show! Our security guard LJ for using his days off to hang out and do the church clap with us! And the staff at FUMC who worked extra behind the scenes to make the magic happen!

07/19/2022

Camp Create Recap Day 2
✔️Met Bezalel and Oholiab who used their gifts to worked together to build the tabernacle
✔️ Watched our first drama class video featuring the many important parts that make up the one body
✔️Learned that the church is a body made up of different parts that work together just like the circus has many acts
✔️Met an acrobat
✔️Worked together to build something bigger than ourselves….a Human Pyramid!
✔️Created life size self portrait acrobats
✔️Met a jump rope artist
✔️Learned new jump rope tricks

Day Two Thank You’s go to our kitchen crew with their homemade Mac-n-cheese and ice cream 😋, Karlee Zaldivar and Kelsey Holomon for the circus acrobat lesson, and Ebony Evans for creating a jump rope routine to one of the kids’ favorite songs and teaching the kids jump rope tricks!

07/18/2022

Camp Create Recap Day #1
✔️Met Daniel (in person and in a sort of Silent film)
✔️Met a real life “miniature lion” tamer
✔️Learned God created EVERYTHING so we can trust Him to handle everything…even the lions in our lives!
✔️Became Lion/alpaca/tortoise/sheep/etc Tamers
✔️Created Animal Marionettes
✔️Filmed our Bible story movie for day two
✔️Ate lion snacks and circus corndogs

Day One Thank You’s go to our Ring Master Michelle Willis, Worship leaders and silent film actors Emma Greer and Za Brown, Kristal Adams and her tamed mini-lion Branch, Blanche Hirsch for hours of behind the scenes marionette prep and of course Dozer the tortoise 🐢