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Keeping Children’s Ministries Alive in Dry Seasons — 6 Comments

  1. Lots of great ideas – thanks!
    I particularly like suggestion number 4. I find that kids respond really well to being able to worship in a practical way – and the summer break is perfect to plan something a bit bigger than in the middle of term.
    At our church, during the summer break, we do cancel ‘junior-church’ in the normal sense, and the kids do lots of outdoorsey activities as suggested above, from scavenger hunts to car-washing, overseen by other members of the congregration, which gives our hard-working young-church team a well-deserved rest too!
    Thanks again 🙂

    • Thanks, Donna. It’s tough finding things to do during the summer when you live in a scorching hot climate. But it’s always refreshing to do things a little differently for a while. Then you appreciate the “regular” stuff even more when you get back to it. Thanks for your comment.

  2. Love these ideas, Linda. Our tiny church has the same issue. VBS used to be a staple at our church, but we finally decided to stop it this year. It breaks my heart, but that doesn’t mean we won’t ever do it again.

    We have sewed items for premies at a local hospital, which is a project even our youngest kids can help with.

  3. Cheryl, we stopped doing VBS for a few years as well. This year we had a weekend VBS in the spring, just to get our feet wet again. In Oct. we’re having a longer one. I like using Group’s VBS curriculum because it’s so easy to use for me, as the director, and for our volunteers. We’re having it in Oct. because it’s so hot in the summer in AZ. It’s our first time trying it in the fall, so we’ll see how it goes. I like your idea of sewing items for the newborns. I bet the kids love that! Thanks for your comment.

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