12/1/20 Jesse Tree

Follow along with this short video as we light the Advent wreath candles, read the Jesse Tree story for the day, and put our Jesse Tree ornament on the tree! 

Saint Andrew's Sunday Family Service

 

Here is this week's family service.  Sorry for the technical difficulties the last couple of weeks, hopefully we can get a useable recording each Sunday from now on. 

Have a great week!

Family Service for October 18th, 2020

 

Here is the recording of this week's family service! As I mention in the service, if you don't get the children's newsletter and would like to, please send me an email at tashlock@st-andrews.org.  

I hope to see many of you at our Boo Saturday car parade next weekend! Please complete the photo release form if you plan to attend. Details are below:

Wear your costume and a mask and join us for a special Boo Saturday car parade through the church parking lot!  We will take photos at the car parade to include in the service on Sunday, 10/25. Families will need to complete the Children's Ministry photo release form ahead of time or on the day of the event.  We hope to see you there! 

Safety note: All treats will be quarantined for 72 hours ahead of the parade in individual bags, and these treat bags will be available for contactless pick up on tables along the car parade route.  Masks will be required when car windows are down. 

Family Service for October 11, 2020

 

Good morning, everyone! Here is today's Family Service.  Announcements are in the Children's Ministry email.  If you don't get those and would like to, please send me an email at tashlock@st-andrews.org and I'll add you to the list! 

Saint Francis Day Family Service

 

Good morning, everyone! Here is this week's Family Service.  Announcements are in the children's newsletter.  

Family Service for 9/27/2020

 

Here is this week's family service.  Announcements are at the end and will be in this week's children's ministry email.  Have a great week!

9/20 Sunday School: Bible Bookshelf

 Hi everyone!

This year in Sunday School we are going to be learning more about this amazing book called the Bible.  We are going to be thinking of the Bible as a bookshelf or library rather than one book.  We learned this week that the Bible is actually 66 books inside one cover! This week we thought about some of the different kinds of books we like to read: 

• fiction
• nonfiction
• realistic fiction
• history
• biography
• poetry or books of songs
• picture books
• graphic novels
• science fiction and fantasy

Just like a library, the Bible has all different kinds of stories:

• fiction (like the stories Jesus makes up to teach his friends something - we call these parables)
• history (parts of the Old Testament tell the history of the Hebrew people, etc.)
• science (the authors who wrote the books of the Bible sometimes used the tools they had - their eyes and the stories handed down to them - to try to understand nature and how the world got the way it is. We see this in the book of Genesis and a few other places.)
• poetry and songs (the Psalms, and others)
• I don't know of any graphic novels in the Bible, but children's Bibles are often picture books!
• As for science fiction and fantasy, some scholars think the book called Revelation is like science fiction or fantasy because it describes a vision of the future. 

As we learn more this year we will make our own Bible Bookshelf.  Each kind of book gets a different color.  We will start with the yellow books called the Torah or the books of the law. 

Today we read the story of creation from Genesis 1, so you can print the shelves and books and for now cut out and stick Genesis on the top shelf! 

See you next week to learn more about the books at the beginning of the Bible!

Taylor