Bethlehem Connect March/April 2019 | Page 7

children, Youth & Family Children Summer Sundays with Seuss (MTKA) June 2 & 9, and August 18 & 25, 5:00-7:00 pm ALL AGES! COST: Free-will offering to cover food, materials, and S'MORES! Invite your family and friends! All ages welcome! We will incorporate Dr. Seuss books with Bible stories in Seuss-fully delightful evenings! Come to one, two, three or all four weeks! Whose WHO are YOU? God’s Who, that’s YOU! Dinner, stories, Bible studies, crafts, games, and scripture. We will end with a campfire worship and, of course, s’mores. REGISTER ONLINE. KAPOW! VBS: God's Heroes in Training (MPLS) June 24-28, 9:00 am–noon Ages: 4 years (by 6/1/19)-12th grade COST: Morning VBS, 4-years (by June 1) through 5th grade: $40/child, $80 family max. AFTER May 1: $55/child. Morning Vacation Bible School Staff, 6th through 12th grades: NO FEE. VBS introduces children to our foundational Bible stories and showers them with God’s unconditional love. Kids make great friends, look up to teenage mentors, and learn from trusted and trained staff. Music, games, and crafts are just a few ways VBS emboldens all kids to grow while having a SUPER fun time. SAVE THE DATE: Flying Pancake Breakfast Mother's Day, May 12, 9:00-11:00 am All you can eat pancake and sausage breakfast for only $5! Pancakes will truly be flying through the air ready to be caught and enjoyed. Bring your mom, your family, your neighbors or just yourself! Join us for this Sunday School fundraiser for our monthly Service Projects. From the Youth Team Yes, it is still cold, but we are already gearing up for summer! Registrations are open! Read more about your options below, or at bethlehem-church.org. • We are so thrilled to be partnering again with SERVE BOLDLY. This summer we will go to Atlanta to do food ministry for folks experiencing hunger. We will also visit historic sites of the Civil Rights Movement including Ebenezer Baptist church where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. worshipped. June 16-21. • The seniors will relax and reflect on their time at Bethlehem in the beautiful APOSTLE ISLANDS. July 15-19. • Youth will help run the KAPOW! VBS for little kids. There is no better way to grow in faith than to disciple young children in their exploration. AND, after you volunteer, sign up for afternoon field trips! June 24-28. • Youth will sing, study and play their way through the week at GREEN LAKE BIBLE CAMP. July 14-19. • And, we’ll send a group to brave the rapids of the Flambeau River on a canoe trip with Camp Amnicon. July 28-August 2. If you would like to get more involved in our youth program, please let us know at youth@bethlehem- church.org! We are always looking for volunteers, chaperones and mentors! Thank you for your continued prayers and support of our youth ministry! Youth Schedule: March 6: Ash Wednesday, no programming March 10: Restorative Justice Speaker 10:30 am in Harrisville March 13: 7th grade video 6:30pm, 8th & 9th grades meet 6:30 pm then worship together March 20: Classes meet 6:30 pm then worship together March 27: 8th grade film 6:30 pm, 7th & 9th grades meet 6:30 pm then worship together April 3: Classes meet 6:30pm then worship together April 10: 9th grade film 6:30 pm, 7th & 8th grades meet 6:30 pm then worship together April 17: Holy Week, no programming April 24: Class Cup, Last Day of Confirmation Noisy Offering Our Sunday School offering is called “Noisy Offering”. We Smash! Bang! Clink! with our pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters to crash in the offering pot in each classroom. We also enjoy “quiet” offering of bills and checks. March: Noisy Offering will buy supplies for the Sandwich Man; and April: Noisy Offering will go toward VBS Scholarships. March service project: Sandwich Man! The Sandwich man will come help us prepare as many sandwiches as possible to help feed the hungry in our midst. April service project: Yoga and water. We will be engaging with mindfulness and the symbolism of water in Baptism in the Bible and God’s gift of ourselves. Attention Thrivent members! All the children in Sunday School from 2 years old through 6th grade are involved in monthly service projects. Please consider designating your “Choice Dollars” of $250 to a Sunday School service project. You can do this on the Thrivent website or by calling your Thrivent representative. 7