Children’s Ministry

We cannot do this…we cannot do that…we cannot go back, and sometimes it feels like we are not moving forward.  But God seems to move most when we are stuck, when we have no direction, and when the enemy is closing in on all sides.  Children’s ministry at Grace has, liked everything else, been challenged to offer a creative spin for its participants.

Last week, Grace Children’s Ministry and Jacobs Learning Ladder (JLL) teamed up to bring a “pumpkin patch” experience ...

Each year we pick a different color for our school T-shirt. This year we decided to switch things up and tie-dye our shirts. The children had so much fun seeing their finished product. The teachers had just as much fun, if not more tie-dying their T-shirts and even masks! We are really looking forward to wearing them on our field trip to the Zoo this spring.

Fall is here, and the children are enjoying exploring outside and looking for signs of ...

What is the Good Neighbor Experiment?  In the words of the creators:

“The Neighboring Movement is a nonprofit started in Wichita, Kansas by neighbors who desired to live out their Christian faith within the context of a neighborhood. Since 2015 we have been researching neighboring initiatives, experimenting in our own neighborhood called SoCe (south central), and teaching about neighboring across the country. The Good Neighbor Experiment (GNE) is the culmination of what we’ve learned put into 4 Labs (each with six ...

The children at Jacob’s Learning Ladder have had lots of fun this summer. We’ve had water days, picnic lunches, and a bike wash. We’ve also experienced lots of other fun learning activities like reading outside, learning about the different levels of the ocean, pond life, transportation and fossils. We wrapped up our summer program with a drive-in movie, complete with cardboard box cars and a popcorn snack!

The lead teachers have been busy creating the curriculum and school calendar for our ...