What a great Christmas Gift for our kids and kids in need in our community!

On Saturday, December 3, 2011, nineteen children (grades 1-6), one youth, and nine adults – all representing our church – helped make gifts of “love bags” for young people of the Children’s Home and Teen Shelter to carry their belongings.  They then delivered these gifts, got a tour of the Children’s Home, and sang a couple of Christmas carols for the children there!

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AIM / Kingdom Kids Mission Project
- Advent Edition  for grades 1-6!

We will make gifts for a local children’s home, deliver them, and have a tour of the facility.

• 9:00am-2:00pm
  
• Cost:  $3 for lunch.
• Parents are encouraged to stay and help!
• If you have not filled out a release form in the past year, print one out HERE, and turn it in to Kim English!

Sorry, but, registration has ended for this event!

For more information, contact Kim English
(children@fumcwf.org or 940-766-4231, x272).

Our Children’s Sunday School worked together today to sell lemonade after the 10:30am Worship Service to raise money for PowerPaks 4 Kids, a project of the Wichita Falls Area Food Bank, that provides food for disadvantaged children in our community on weekends.  It cost about $170 / child per year to provide this service.

By raising $742.48, our children provided this service for a little over 4 children!  Way to go!

1064 pounds of our church (that is nine children, one youth and two adults) visited the Wichita Falls Area Food Bank where they delivered aluminum cans, took a tour, and folded plastic bags for the Students Against Hunger Annual Food Drive.

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Where is it -7 degrees in August in Texas?  In the walk-in freezer at the Wichita Falls Area Food Bank!

Ten children, one youth, and two adults got to enjoy the cool as well as delivering aluminum cans, taking a tour of the facility, and preparing plastic bags for their annual school year food drive.  We spent all afternoon playing together at Jump for Joy.

Adventures In Mission is a mission project for children who have completed grades 3-5 (completed)!  Check out the AIMs coming in Summer 2011!

AIM—3

When: Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Time: 9:30am – 3:30pm

Where: Meet in the Church Atrium

Project: TBA

Cost: Cost: $7 / Child for lunch and an activity

Deadline to Register: Sunday, August 7, 2011

Deadlines are necessary to make sure there is enough food, transportation, and adult supervision!

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Sorry! Registration is closed for AIM-1, but feel free to sign up for future AIMS or VBS.

Sorry! Registration is closed for AIM-2, but feel free to sign up for future AIMS or VBS.

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Kingdom Kids events are mission opportunities for children in grades K-2 (completed).  Check out these events scheduled for summer 2011!

Kingdom Kids-2

When: Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Time: 9:30am – 3:00pm

Where: Meet in the Church Atrium

Project: Meals on Wheels

Cost: $7

Fun:  Swimming – BE SURE TO BRING SWIM TRUNKS, TOWELS, ETC.

Deadline to Register: Sunday, July 3, 2011

Deadlines are necessary to make sure there is enough food, transportation, and adult supervision!

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Kingdom Kids-3

When: Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Time: 9:30am – 3:00pm

Where: Meet in the Church Atrium

Project: TBA

Cost: $7 / child

Lunch:  Bring a Sack Lunch (drinks provided)

Fun:  Jump for Joy

Deadline to Register: Sunday, July 31, 2011

Deadlines are necessary to make sure there is enough food, transportation, and adult supervision!

Register NOW below!

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Check to Register Your Child for KK-3:

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Kindergarten Grade 1 Grade 2

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The Children’s & Adult Sunday School Classes of FUMC are each taking part in a food drive to benefit Interfaith Ministries.  The Adults began a competition among classes on Sunday, October 31, 2010.  Here are the current stats:

The first number is the number of items collected.  The second number is “pro-rated” based on the number of members in the respective class.  Check back each week to see how each class is doing.

The Children begin their drive on November 7, 2010, and each week they are looking for different items that are of special need by Interfaith.  Here is what children should bring each week:

• November 7:  Pork ‘n’ Beans
• November 14:  Peanut Butter
• November 21:  Jelly
• November 28:  Canned Fruit

For more about the Adult Food Drive, contact Rev. Troy Sims (tsims@fumcwf.org or 940-766-4231, x229).

For more about the Children’s Food Drive, contact Rev. Lydia Pellikan (lpellikan@fumcwf.org or 940-766-4231, x272).

Children in United Methodist Churches raise money to send to the United Methodist Children’s Fund for Christian Mission, which supports missions that help children. Each year four missions are selected (two in the U.S. and two in other countries) to receive the funding. The money collected is divided equally among the four mission sites. One year, over $100,000.00 was raised by children for this fund.

In 2010 the four mission sites chosen for the UM Children’s Fund are McCurdy School in Espanola, New Mexico; Partnership in Treatment, in Anchorage, Alaska; Kiev Street Children Ministry, Kiev, Ukraine; and Sudan Shalom Ministry, South Sudan.

In July, our K-5th grade Sunday School Classes learned about each of these mission projects and what they do. Then, in August the children studied the story of Jesus feeding more than 5000 people with two fish and five barley loaves given by a young boy. The children learned that God can take our small gift and perform miracles!

In response, through our Sunday School offering in June, July, and August, our children collected $60.00 to support the United Methodist Children’s Fund for Christian Mission. Way to go!

To learn more about the United Methodist Children’s Fund for Christian Mission, visit www.gbod.org/children.

June 9, 2010 marked a first for the North Texas Annual Conference as, in addition to the normal business of the conference, a mission work day was held to help members of the conference (including our Bishop, District Superintendents, and Extended Cabinet) practice what we preach.  FUMC folk participated in all of the projects:

• Cooking Breakfast (Connie Rosenburg & Erica Conner)
• Painting the Riverside Cemetery Fence (Erica Conner, Rev. Pellikan, and children of Adventures in Mission (AIM-1))
• Texas Ramp Project 1 (Rev. Sims)
• Texas Ramp Project 2 (Alan Ballard & former Youth Pastor, Dana Coker)
• Texas Ramp Project 3 (Elizabeth Yeager)
• Imagine No Malaria Car Wash (Youth of FUMC)
  In fact Jeff Ginn and our youth spearheaded this event that raised over $300 to help eradicate malaria on the continent of Africa by 2015)

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