Celebrate Christ's Coming :: Advent

Celebrate this Christmas season focused on Christ  

Using this All I Want for Christmas Advent Devotional, you will look at the events of Jesus' first coming to earth, and then consider what His coming means for us now. Each week has a theme that runs through our Advent Worship Services at Christ Community: Hope, Peace, Joy and Love.  Make sure to pick up your copy of this Advent Devotional in the lobby!

  

Our Kid's Bulletins for the four weeks of Advent follow these themes and will aid in your child's participation in worship each Sunday. 

Advent Wreath

This is what my Advent Wreath looks like.  

We dim the lights and eat dinner by candlelight til December 25th.  The closer we get to Christmas, the brighter it glows as more candles are lit each week.  This is a cherished tradition in our home.

Purchase or create your own special wreath!  The devotional is designed to guide daily lighting of the candles, reading Scripture, singing a carol that ties in with the week's theme.  

Sunday In Review - November 23

Rooted In Jesus

• Children sang songs like: The Gospel Fuzzies  
• Children learned that God gives faithfulness!
• Just like the Jesus provided food for the 5,000, God is faithful to provide all our needs.
• Galatians 5:22-23, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness..."

Kids' Community

• As a Christian, You Will Bear Fruit! It's a promise.
• Psalm 100 -Rehearsed in sanctuary.

Children's Worship

• Exodus 20:3, "You shall have no other gods before me."
• Memorizing Genesis-2 Kings.
• Looked at Ten Ways to Be Perfect - 10 Commandments
• We cannot perfectly obey all of God's commandments, but one person can and did - Jesus!
• Led by Steve Sandvig and Chuck Boots.

Calling all Angels & Shepherds!

Once again this Christmas Eve, we will have children and teens participate in a costumed Nativity.

We are looking for: 

•  Shepherds (boys)
•  Angels (girls)
•  Ages 3 + 

What to Expect:

• One Mandatory Rehearsal
• Sunday, December 14, 3:30-5pm
• Costumes* - Either Shepherd or Angel.  Costumes will be provided in part.  *Parents will be asked to provide some additional pieces.
• Singing - All participants will be singing the chorus of Angels From the Realms of Glory, "Come and worship!/  Come and worship!/  Worship Christ the newborn King."
• The Nativity will be at the beginning of the Christmas Eve Service and will be approximately 5 minutes in length.  
• Participants need to arrive by 6:15 PM.

Sunday In Review - Nov 16

Rooted In Jesus

• Children sang songs like: The Gospel Fuzzies  
• Children learned that God gives gentleness!
• Just like the Good Samaritan showed kindness to the hurt man, God shows us kindness in Jesus.
• Galatians 5:22, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness..."

Kids' Community

• God Will Be With You - He is everywhere!
• Psalm 100 - finalized the entire passage; rehearsed in sanctuary.

Children's Worship

• Exodus 6:7, "God said, 'I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God.'"
• Memorizing Genesis-2 Kings.
• Looked at God Makes a Way [Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt]
• God rescued his people by making a way though the Red Sea. One day there would be an even greater rescue - Jesus dying on the cross.
• Led by Matt and Sarah Perkins.

A Few of My Favorite Things ~ Thanksgiving Edition

Favorite Books


Thanksgiving:  A Time To Remember

• True, fascinating accounts of the pilgrims' journey! 
• God's amazing faithfulness shines through.
• Retold by Barbara Rainey  
• Accompanying instrumental CD

http://www.christianbook.com/thanksgiving-time-to-remember-hardcover-with/barbara-rainey/9781581345384/pd/45380


Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving

• Eric Metaxas

"[B]e amazed to discover that the real hero of the first Thanksgiving was not English or Indian---but God. The remarkable story of how he brings together the struggling Pilgrims and a lonely brave who knows their language and shares their faith is a true American history miracle."


http://www.christianbook.com/squanto-and-the-miracle-of-thanksgiving/eric-metaxas/9781400320394/pd/320394?event=ESRCG

Favorite Songs

Doxology

Gungor, live 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnUC8HK3oCU

For the Beauty of the Earth
Barlow Girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHSPQmV_IT0

This is My Father's World
Go Fish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwIeX0_jRpU

Gungor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U95d7NhEHPE

Favorite Adventures in Odyssey

• On Thin Ice collection
• Thanksgiving At Home
•  http://www.whitsend.org/en/albums/07-on-thin-ice/132-thanksgiving-at-home.aspx

• $1.99, single episode download
• Retail Stores - $18-25 for entire CD
• For ages 5+
• Great family-time discussion starters
• Awesome for family road trips!!!

• Heroes collection
• Thank You, God
• http://www.whitsend.org/albums/03-heroes/049-thank-you-god.aspx

Sunday in Review - November 2nd

Rooted In Jesus

• Children sang songs like: “Jesus - what a Peach of a Savior”  
• Children learned that GOD gives Kindness!
• Just like the Good Samaritan showed kindness to the hurt man, God shows us kindness in Jesus.
• Galatians 5:22, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness..."

Kids' Community

• God gives the gift of salvation to all who call on Him.
• Psalm 100:1-4, "Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
   Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the LORD is God.  It is he that made us, we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name."

Children's Worship

• Gen. 50:20, You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good."
• Memorizing Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,  Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, AND 1st and 2nd Samuel.
• Looked at The Forgiving Prince [Joseph]
• Joseph was betrayed and rejected by his brothers, but by God's plan, he later rescued them! Jesus was betrayed and rejected, too, and by God's plan, he rescues us.
• Led by Randa Nader.