Children’s Message Rally Day—September 11, 2005

What a great day today is!! Although I love summer, I always look forward to this time of year when everything gets going again. So much is going on! We have the start of Sunday School today, plus the rally day picnic. For the whole month of September, we are asking the children and anyone else to save their quarters for our French” quarter drive for Hurricane Katrina Relief efforts. In October we have the all church get away weekend and the start of Qabats, plus much, MUCH more! It is an exciting time of year!

Yesterday, I was here at church leading orientation for all of our Sunday School teachers, and let me tell you, they are a GREAT group! They all told me how excited they were to be teaching all of you. In just a few minutes, you will all go down and meet your teachers. Next week, we will commission our teachers during this time in worship. Commissioning our teachers is when we take time in worship to ask the teachers to do their best to care for you all on behalf of the whole congregation. We also pray for them in their important work.

I was thinking about that yesterday, and I thought that maybe it would be neat to kind of commission our children, too.

The Children’s Ministry committee worked a lot last spring and over the summer to come up with some guiding words for children’s ministry—words that describe how we hope our children will be, so suing these words, “the 5 C’s”, I thought we could do something kind of like a commissioning for you. When I ask you a question, you can answer with, “We will”.
Will you be Cooperative with teachers and peers?
Will you be Careful with the bodies, feelings and resources of yourselves and others?
Will you be Considerate of All God’s children?
Will you be Contributing by sharing your gifts by participating in class?
Will you be Curious and willing to lean new things?


Let’s pray:
Loving God,
Be with us this year in Sunday school,
Help us to learn the stories of our faith,
And strengthen our friendships.
Amen.