Preschool: Mary's gift to Jesus

Today our two classes combined to learn about giving gifts. We talked about when we get gifts (birthdays, holidays) and who gives us gifts (people who love us). We put smelly lotion on our hands to understand perfume and why that might be a nice gift (in case you were wondering why your kid smelled like lavender!).

Then we read the story of Mary, Jesus's friend, who gave him the gift of perfume. We thought about how we can give Jesus gifts-- through songs and prayer to him and also, by giving gifts to other people in his name.

That's when we talked about how some kids don't have water to drink. We though about how we can collect money to give them a gift of clean water in Jesus name. Thus, we made piggy banks to collect spare change for Spilling Hope. The kids took them home and should bring them back on June 12 (for those of us who will be camping, we can bring them on June 5th-- give it to Joey, Paula or Dan Moses).

Next week: Jasmine & Leah will be leading the class.

Preschool: Mary and Martha

This week in sunday school we learned a bit about spending time with Jesus. The kids were introduced to a couple different looking books that had stories about Jesus in them-- even though they looked different, they were all the Bible. We took turns hiding the Bibles around the room and finding them. We talked about how in the Bible there is a story about Jesus and two of his friends, Mary and Martha. Jesus wanted to spend time with them-- talking and listening together. He wanted that more than a clean house or food (hmmm... a lesson for me on mother's day?). One way we can spend time with Jesus is by reading the stories about him in the Bible. So, we made bookmarks (one for Mom, one for the kids) to use when we read the Bible. Happy Mother's day!

Next week: We'll hear the story of Mary's precious gift to Jesus. As part of learning about Mary's generosity, we'll be making piggy banks for the kids to take home to collect coins for the Spilling Hope project Sanctuary is doing.

Thanks for sharing your wonderful kids with us-- they really are a blessing!

Preschool: Woman at the well

Today we heard the story of Jesus and the woman at the well. How Jesus was very thirsty and asked the woman to get him some water. Also, how we are thirsty and how Jesus can give us very special water-- living water. To illustrate thirsty, we went on a walk looking for things that need water and ended up at the park. We came back very thirsty! We finished our lesson off with special water (koolaid:) to quench our thirst like Jesus can.

Next week: Mary and Martha story-- talking about how Jesus wants us to spend time with him!