Thankfulness

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We spent this week in KC simply learning to be thankful for the things we have and to not take the little things for granted - even toothbrushes and shoes! We related some of the stories the men brought back from a recent trip to build a church in Guatamala and all that those families go without - we are so blessed in our country!

In addition to those lessons, our KC children participated in creating a gift for the Women of Worth - the widows group - from our church. They have an annual Christmas party and KC wanted to contribute something to make them smile. The children all helped in making pretzel rods dipped in different types of chocolate and then putting various toppings on them - so pretty, fun and easy to do! They also signed cards to give to each woman.

Alexei and Alexandria sign cards:

Zach uses M&M's to decorate a pretzel:

Alesha and Corbin work on their masterpieces:

A group signs cards while others work on various "Thanksgiving" activities:

The prayer request box in an important weekly part of kid's Connection. Students have the opportunity to right down their prayer requests and their praise reports and turn in for all of us to pray over them or rejoice with them. With continue to have prayers answered from requests turned in each week! God is building their faith.

Some of the finished products:

It is our prayer that you and your family have a happy and blessed Thanksgiving week filled with faith, food, family, friends and all the things that you love the most!

Surprise!

This past Wednesday turned out a little different than all of you were expecting! If you were at church with your children, you know that we did not have kid's Connection. Instead, Pastor made a few remarks and then we were all asked to go and tour the new building!

Some of the kid's Connection staff were stationed in the new children's chapel to welcome everyone and to answer questions. It was awesome to see the looks on everyone's faces when they saw the new facilities.

We are so excited to start having services there on Wednesday nights! What a blessing it will be.

We pray that you are all as excited as we are of the great things that God is doing and that He is going to continue to do in and for our kids and our kid's ministries.

See you next week for our regular kid's connection service!