Tis' the Season...Advent Ideas

Tis' the Season to Celebrate! We celebrate the birth of our Savior! We celebrate the Gospel!
We celebrate with friends and family with the exchanging of gifts with the enjoyment of fellowship!

The Children's Ministry team is so very thankful for the opportunity to spend time with your children celebrating the birth of the Savior. What a special time to teach our children about the love of Jesus Christ!

Here are a couple of ideas for making the Advent season not only special, but a time to draw near to the manger.

Using the Jesus Storybook Bible as an Advent devotional for you and your children. This link provides a list of stories that have paragraphs that specifically talk about the expected birth of Jesus. As you read each story you will get closer and closer to the birth of Jesus! Click here to check it out!

Ann Voskamp uses a daily devotional with coordinating ornaments to build a Jesse Tree. Each day you read the devotional and then you hang one of the provided ornaments on your tree. Click here to check it out!

Noel Piper has a story for the 25 days leading up to Christmas that allows children to build the stable scene until finally adding Jesus. Each day you read the story building on the day before and each day you add another animal/person etc... Click here to check it out! (Scroll down to get the all the info).

Our pre-school ministry is building a tree out of ornaments that have the names of Jesus on them. They will talk about the names of Jesus and write them on ornaments. Then place the ornaments on a cupcake stand creating a tree....Ask your children at Sunday lunch about the names of Jesus!

At home you could also do this for the 25 days leading up to Christmas. Or you could make ornaments with your kiddos and write the names of Jesus on them. (There are lots of cute ideas out there on Pinterest). Then each day you could read from the Jesus Storybook Bible and let the kiddos hang one of the Christmas ornaments they made on the tree.

The possibilities are endless...our hope is that as family you will draw near to the Savior!

Covenant Christmas Camp 2012

Join us in SonShine Valley for

Covenant Christmas Camp 2012

Monday, Wednesday & Friday

December 17th, 19th & 21st

9am-1pm

For ages infant-5K

$60 per child for three days of fun!

Covenant Christmas Campers will enjoy 3 exciting days of Christmas crafts, snacks and activities! 

Each day’s activities will be centered around a classic Christmas carol celebrating the birth of Jesus.

Space is limited so register today!

To register, email the names and birthdates of your children to Marilyn Lindsey at mlindsey@covpres.com 

Registration emails will be confirmed in the order they are received!

Enrollment is for three days of Christmas Fun!

(No discounts given for partial attendance)

Share in the Joy of Giving...

Every year our church collects money in order to provide a Christmas Bonus for the wonderful women who care for our children in the Church Nursery.  Most weeks, the church provides childcare five to six days a week for various church-related events.  The careful and diligent care provided by our Nursery staff allows many of us to participate in these events with the assurance that our precious children are feeling safe and loved.

These ladies are such a blessing to us at Covenant and giving to the Nursery Staff Christmas Bonus Fund is a wonderful opportunity for US to bless THEM!  Please prayerfully consider giving to these women who give so much to Covenant. 

There are several ways to give: 

·      Drop your gift in the offering plate

·      Take it to the Nursery Welcome Desk or to the Church Office

·      Put it in the donation envelope in your Sunday School class 

Please make checks payable to Covenant Presbyterian Church and be sure to note in the memo section it’s for the Nursery Bonus Fund.  Kindly submit your gifts by December 14^th so that the funds may be distributed to the Nursery staff in time for Christmas.

Thank you in advance for your generosity and may God bless your family during this wonderful time of the year!

Faithfully,

Marilyn Lindsey                                                Jami Bennett

Director of Nursery Ministries                        Director of Mother’s Day Out