November 2015 - Thankful Leper

One Thankful Leper

By Laurie Juarez on Nov 10, 2015

During November the children learned the story of the Thankful Leper.  The younger children made finger puppets to help act out the story :)

Our younger class acting out the story with finger puppets!

The 1st/2nd grade class and the 4th/5th grade class each made a still picture movie of the story and we wanted to share them! Enjoy!

We also created a "Thanksgiving Tree" in the Hallway.  For three Sundays the children wrote what they were thankful for on a leaf and put it up on the wall :)  I love seeing what they are thankful for!

"Mom and Dad", "My family", "Home" and "Maxie" (hamster)

4 say "Family" and one "Life" :)

Lesson plan found here.  

September 2015 - CREATION!

By Laurie Juarez on Sep 16, 2015

During the month of September the children learned about the Creation story!  Below you can see some of their creations...including an art project and stories that they narrate and illustrated :)

The 4th and 5th graders did a great job writing their Creation story and making clay creation pictures!! Good job kiddos!  

Both classes also got to write a creation book! They turned out wonderfully!!

Creation Lesson plan can be found here

Mars Hill-last day!

Mars Hill Adventure Last Day!

By Laurie Juarez on Jul 24, 2015

For our last day we got to go to one of the worksites and help paint the house and deck!  The kids had a blast :)  It was nice to meet and get to talk to a family that the church has been working with all week.  The kids also enjoyed "getting their hands dirty' :)  When we got back we made a momento to hook to our bookbags that remind us of everything we've done this week.  Each bead is a symbol of something we did or learned.   (dog - animal shelter, circle - bingo chip/retirement home, eye balls - looking for the geocaches, cross - our devotionals/Jesus, hand - helping at the food bank/building others up and a heart that says "made with love" to remind us of all the things we made for others...and that we are a child of God - "fearfully and wonderfully made"!)
We had a great week and the children have prepared a testimony to be read by Paul at the Contemporary service on Sunday.  They've learned the importance of building up others, our community, our families and ourselves.  It was a wonderful experience!
We can't wait til next year!!

Mars Hill day 4!

Mars Hill Adventure Day 4!

By Laurie Juarez on Jul 23, 2015

Day 4!


we did our devotional this morning it was so fun!
we are standing in front of the prayer cross

we are working on our tool boxes we finished them today.

this is some of our jewelry (that we made out of hardware!)

this is the end of the day we played bingo (at the retirement home) to win choclate!!!
it was a fun day! :)
BY Paul and Tommy

Mars Hill day 3

Mars Hill Adventure Day 3!

By Laurie Juarez on Jul 22, 2015

*The kids' comments are at the bottom :)  We had a great time at the Food Bank today, at the Nature Center and working on our gifts to take to the retirement center tomorrow. 

we made  the coasters for the retirement home they turned out to be really cool.  After we made the coasters we went to the food bank and we packaged cookies. and then we went to franks pizza.  then we went to the zoo we got to see alot of cool things.  After that we finally came home from a busy day but a really fun day. 
Awesome day! :) 
BY SOPHIA AND ELLA

Mars Hill day 2

Mars hill adventure day 2

By Laurie Juarez on Jul 21, 2015

(My thoughts are in black and itallic :)

We had a great day today and we'll tell you all about it

this is what we did in the animal shelter we pet the dogs and we found out are (our) favorite dogs and cats

The dogs and cats liked the toys we made them! The cat above went crazy over our catnip toy and some of the friskier dogs liked the pull toys.  The kids didn't want to leave!

we went geocaching it was a bummer cause everything was in the forest but we found two. 

These are the two geocaches we found.  Unfortunately, as they said above, two of them were deep in the woods and we weren't properly dressed.  bummer!

we had fun swimming and went down the slide and played games.

We thought it'd be funny to get them all coming out of the slide :) lol

we had a picnic to celebrate Ella's birthday. (at the shelter)
We had a dog themed celebration - complete with doggy tattoos! :)

we made pillows to send to the work sites too.  

First thing this morning we had our devotional and we talked about "Building ourselves up".  We discussed how we are all children of God and that we shouldn't say something about ourselves that we wouldn't say about someone else (ie...I'm so dumb, I'm ugly, etc).  Then we made mirrors that say - "I am a child of God!" to remind us :) 
BY TOMMY AND PAUL