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September Chapels

The preschool classes go to chapel every other week. 3C, 4C, 4D, and TK go on Mondays and T3, 3B, and T4 go on Tuesdays.

In their very first chapel service, the Monday group met Miss Karen, the church's Director of Children's Ministry.

 
They stood to sing songs.

 
And Miss Karen selected members of the TK class to help tell the story of creation from Genesis 1.

 
There is always a time for prayer before going back to class.

 
No matter which member of the staff conducts chapel, the schedule remains the same.

Singing.

Story.

Prayer.

The scripture passage of the week stays consistent, too, but the delivery may vary. The Tuesday group's first chapel was with Pastor Joe, the youth and college pastor. He took a different approach with the creation story and read it to them from a children's Bible.

 
This year the pastoral staff is planning on taking your children chronologically through the Bible, teaching them stories of God's love and faithfulness throughout history.

 

Chapel

These photos are from the first Tuesday chapel. The 3, 4, and 5 year olds attend chapel every other week.

Chapel starts out with a little singing.

T3 children stand and listen to Pastor Robbie as he teaches them a new song.

"My God is so BIG..."

"so STRONG and so mighty..."

 

This year the children will be learning about the Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22, 23) during chapel, supplementing what we are teaching them in their classrooms. Pastor Robbie introduced the concept by showing the children an apple and talking to them about how apples grow on apple trees, relating it to how we know it's an apple tree because it grows apples and how people will know we are following God and doing what He wants us to do when we act in certain ways (displaying the Fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control).

The plan for the fall semester is that Pastor Robbie will be doing all the Tuesday chapels. Pastor Joe and Miss Karen will be sharing the Monday chapel duties.