Blog Posts by Topic: Ministry
I wanted to share a quick story that the Children's Team kind of sees as a tiny but significant miracle.
During kids camp, we planted quite a few seeds in the patch of garden that lines the side of the Children's building at Taft. For a while some plants flourished but, unfortunately, died out in the Summer heat, never yielding fruit. We stopped watering or caring for the garden, except for one faithful maintenance man, Lloyd. Lloyd & then Haley, spotted some plants that had started a vine and had grown outside of the small outlined garden and, unexpectedly, started growing in the grass. They made sure the small vines were not mowed down and carefully started watering them as often as he thought of it. As the drought started hitting Houston, and everything...
When you enter the Children's Space at Ecclesia many people notice immediately the natural materials we use for our play, storytelling, and furnishing. It is a marked difference from many children's spaces with their vibrant colors & molded plastic.
In fact, I just bought and received in the mail one of the most beautiful materials I have been lucky enough to purchase for our children, a hand cut & oiled Arc which we will use to tell the story of Noah's Arc to our Preschool children in a month or so.
You might have a guess at why we lean towards natural materials and your guesses would probably be correct, there are lots of good reasons. There is a method to our madness, and we hand select much of what we have in the Children's Space using specific...
We had an amazing time at HEAD HANDS HEART (camp for kids) last week.
And we have the pictures to prove it.
Click Here to see our kids camp photo stream.
Click Here to see the smile booth photos from our photography workshops (password is 2115taft)
If your child participated in a workshop and has not gotten their final proof back of their work. I will be sending those out to the parents shortly.
THANKS TO OUR KIDS & FAMILIES WHO PARTICIPATED IN CAMP.
WE CAN HARDLY WAIT FOR NEXT YEAR!
This week I asked one of our loyal volunteers to share with us about a project that is near and dear to her heart & how she plans to spend her Summer. Emily Hazen is a teacher who serves twice monthly with our Kindergarten & 1st grade class at the 9AM service. If your child attends that class, they know Emily well and likely have been very impacted by her teaching style and active presence in their lives.
Emily helped put on the Storybook campout to raise money for her project & the kids have been folding cranes for about 6 weeks as part of the story they heard and a way to show support for the library. We plan on talking about the project more with the kids at HEAD HANDS HEART & letting the kids decide on ways to help her as she is in El Transito this...
I wanted to share with you something we have been doing in the kids area recently with our storytelling that I love.
Leah has been developing beautiful chalk drawings for our storytelling areas. Tying in the story in a visual way that is handcrafted and feels less manufactured than any other ways we could think of. She also has been doing chalk drawings in the pre-k play area tying in images that the kids will be learning about into the creative play time. I love these drawings so much and wanted to share them with you.
Photos from the kids section of our Easter Festival at Jones Plaza.
We celebrated well and had a lot of fun!
On Palm Sunday the kids helped lead worship, read scripture & created
the Benediction for the 'big church'.
Below are the Benedictions they created during the"Stations of the Cross
Poetry Station" led by Jayme Yeo.
Saturday, 5:00 pm
On Sunday, I heard rumors that Jesus was coming to Jersusalem.
It was a sunny day.
It was very crowded. There were
Lots and lots of people—
Looking, watching, waiting, listening, and pondering.
They were waving palms.
They were excited and nervous.
Jesus rode in on a donkey.
He had a beard, like pretty much all of the Beatles.
He had white clothes.
He was sad, because he wanted to go to Heaven.
He was excited to celebrate with the people.
He was happy to be among the souls that God created.
I was...
These images were created by our children during Lent.
They used figures, cloth, paper, and their imaginations at our "Media Station" to reflect on & create pictures of Jesus as he journeyed to the cross.
They also occasionally captured images of other stations, children & volunteers.
As they worked the children were asked to imagine the scene and how Jesus must have felt and think of a time where they felt similarly. The kids were reminded that when they feel that way, Jesus will help them.
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