Communion Sunday Logistics

Hi Parents,

This Sunday, November 6, 2011, is Communion Sunday (first Sunday).

This month we will begin teaching children about Communion, and involving them in the main sanctuary's Communion Service.

The plan for Communion Sundays and the Children's Ministry:

• Drop off children to the Fellowship Hall at 9:30am
• Keep your children's belongings with you in the sanctuary (this includes ALL coats, stuffed animals, action figures, lipgloss and purses)
• Children will read THE LAST SUPPER and THE FIRST CHURCH and have a discussion (with a member of the Ministerial Staff) about the stories, and learn basic concepts of communion and its role in building our church community
• ACTIVITY TIME will be a mock serving of communion (empty cups and animal crackers)
• Snack (if time runs out, they will receive snack to go, as usual, in a ziplock bag for later)
• Children will be brought into the sanctuary at offering, seated in reserved seats
• When YOU get up to give YOUR offering, continue to the section where the children are seated and PICK UP YOUR CHILD and take him/her back to your seating area
• Partake in communion, as a family. Ministerial staff will look to you as a parent to give them a nod to serve your child communion (otherwise they will give your child a blessing as they continue around the circle serving the congregation)
• At the benediction, you and your children are free to go home or participate in the church's coffee hour in the sanctuary

We will repeat this same plan every First Sunday.

Be blessed,

~ Simone

PS A few of our worship leaders (our six and seven year olds) will be pre-selected to help with communion in the sanctuary (they'll be collecting cups for the Stewardesses). We will rotate these 4 positions throughout the year.