April to June Schedule

Upcoming Schedule:

April 18

The Lord's Prayer

April 25

Youth Impact Sunday/King's Kidz sing "Holy, Holy, Holy"

May 9

Mother's Day
Ruth and Naomi

YPD (wear green and white)

Carole Copeland Thomas guest reader

May 16

David and Goliath
Wyatt Jackson, guest reader

Asha Ragin (Dance Ministry) visits for activity time

Parent meeting after church

May 23

Psalm 23 (book by Tim Ladwig)
Robert and Jessica Anderson guest readers

June 13
Best Friends (David and Jonathan)
YPD (wear green and white)

Pastor Gloria White-Hammond guest reader

June 20
Jesus Teaches on the Mountain, plus Summer Fruits of the Spirit (Gal 5:22)

Father's Day, and the last Children's Worship until Sept/Oct--End of the Year Celebration

Pastor Gloria White-Hammond guest reader

June 27

Youth Impact Sunday/King's Kidz sing

YPD Sunday (April 11) - Easter Review

Rev John Kyner read an Easter story and then the kids opened plastic eggs with symbols from the story, demonstrating what they remembered about it. Example,

     "Mine has a rock in it."
     -- What did a rock have to do with the story?
     "There was a big stone that they rolled away, then saw Jesus wasn't in there."

For the King's Kidz rehearsal, they learned Holy, Holy, Holy (which they will sing on Sunday, April 25, for Youth Impact Sunday).

And during activity time, the children talked about caring for others and caring for our church, and drew pictures to be decorate the walls of Bethel.

Some upcoming YPP dates:
Walk for Hunger  May 2
Annual Conference May 15

King's Kidz rehearse on Easter Sunday

dadtoday: Happy Easter from J & the King's Kids

One of the parents captured this video of the children singing on Sunday.

Love it!

See the original blog posting on dadtoday: Happy Easter from J & the King's Kids

If you take pictures or video of the King's Kidz or of Children's Worship, please send us a copy at bethelchildren [at] gmail [dot] com

Happy Resurrection Sunday

Sunday, March 21

Heard a Bible story read by Pastor Gloria about The True King entering into Jerusalem on a donkey with the road softened with palms.

Kids made palms, and adorned them with the word Hosanna.

They received a copy of the Easter Story book to take home to read (the same stories that are in the Beginner's Bible.)

Sunday, March 28

Heard two stories about the death and the resurrection of Jesus, read by Rev Al Tyson and Sis Joyce Tyson

Colored Easter greeting cards for residents of nursing homes.

Kids received take home packs with a make-you-own magnetic Easter picture frame and a CD with songs they've learned (or are going to learn) for the King's Kidz choir.

This Sunday, April 3, the King's Kidz choir will minister to the congregation in song, singing We Fall Down.

They will also sing again on Sunday, April 25, for Youth Impact Sunday.

New Song for the Children to Learn

Hey Parents!
Here are the lyrics as well as the song the children will be singing for church on Easter Sunday. We have very little time to prepare so having them practice at home will be a huge help.


-Jessica

We Fall Down


We fall down
We lay our crowns
At the feet of Jesus
The greatness of
Your Mercy and love
At the feet of Jesus
And we cry holy, holy, holy
And we cry holy, holy, holy
And we cry holy, holy, holy
Is the lamb
We fall down
We lay our crowns
At the feet of Jesus
The greatness of
Mercy and love
At the feet of Jesus
And we cry holy, holy, holy
And we cry holy, holy, holy
And we cry holy, holy, holy
Is the lamb
And we cry holy, holy, holy
And we cry holy, holy, holy
And we cry holy, holy, holy
Is the lamb






*Just listen to the audio here. The video is irrelevant*

March Schedule

March 7 (First Sunday)

This Sunday is Communion Sunday, when the congregation worships together as one body in the main sanctuary. No Children's Worship.

March 14 (Change! No Children's Worship)

Bethel AME Church visits our sister church, Pilgrim Church, in Sherborn MA. (Something special is planned for children and youth Pk-7th grade). Two buses and a caravan of people driving on their own cars will meet at Bethel's Parkside Campus (215 Forest Hills St, Jamaica Plain MA) at 8am, and depart at 8:15am.

For those unable to attend, there will be also be a worship service at Bethel, in the main sanctuary at 9:30am. No Children's or Youth Worship services.

March 21 (Change! YPD Sunday)

Children's Worship in the Fellowship Hall. Our regularly scheduled YPD Sunday will be moved to third Sunday this month. Kids will learn about Palm Sunday and work on a missions (giving) project. We will also have a special visitor (Pastor Gloria) reading for storytime.

March 28

Kids will continue to learn about Jesus's life, death and resurrection in preparation for Easter Sunday.