On Sunday we had a special Valentine's Day event, where we pass out cookies to everyone in the congregation. This is our third year doing that and the kids always love doing it. It fit in perfectly with John's sermon series about our mission statement - "To be the loving community of Jesus Christ....". There's actually more to it than that, but it starts out that way and that's what we wanted the kids to do - BE that loving community of Jesus Christ.
So, we started by having them pack up bags of cookies and add a verse card. The verse cards had John 3:16 written out, with the word VALENTINE spelled in red using the letters of the verse (thank you, pinterest!).
When they were done packing, they had to sort and count them and put them in baskets to take upstairs to the sanctuary.
Before they did that, however, we let them each take a bag for themselves to eat. :-) It would've been mean and cruel to expect them to touch the cookies and pack the cookies and not get to eat any!
When they got upstairs they got to pass them out to everyone. Noah frequently left the sanctuary to roam the halls looking for the cookie-less. It was fun!
Such a great group of kids! These guys were stationed at the back of the church and we had another crew at the front of the church. It was a great morning!
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