Hours of Fun at Children's Fun Hour!

Children's Fun Hour was the new name for a new way of allowing children to worship on Sundays during the summer. Betty Splettstoesser and Karen Jennings worked together to create craft bags for kids while they attend the first part of worship, and then organized fun center-based activities downstairs.

The kids began with a circle time on mats with a Scripture reading from Genesis 1; each day we read about one day of creation and shared briefly about the Scripture with some interaction from the kids. Then we shared prayer requests and passed an offering plate.

Kids were then instructed to choose a center for the remainder of the time. They could read Christian story books in a reading center with tent and bean bags. They could watch a Christian video in the Parlor. Or they could make a craft related to the Genesis story that had been read. Each of the centers were popular, although the older kids generally chose the video and the younger ones chose the craft or reading centers.


Since it was difficult to find workers for the children's fun hour, we depended many weeks on the nursery workers who were already scheduled by Betsy Morrison. This worked well since we only had one or two babies through the summer, and they were older so could participate in the centers with supervision.

Thank you to ALL who volunteered their time this summer in the nursery and children's fun hour. And thank you especially to Karen and Betty who put together the program each week so that workers just needed to show up and have fun with the kids!