Toolbox For Faith

This coming Sunday, May 9, our congregation is doing something that I have not done in 39 years of ministry. We are having a Children’s Sunday. The service will begin with a power point presentation during the prelude featuring pictures of all of our children along with pictures of the same children at their baptism. Our children are participating in a variety of different ways from the handmade paper banners that we are using in the narthex to giving special gifts for all the women on Mother’s Day. We will finish the service by going into the yard to plant a dogwood tree with families shoveling dirt around the base.

As we were preparing for the service, the passage from Matthew, Mark and Luke about Jesus allowing the children to come to him and forbidding the disciples from shooing them away figured prominently in our planning. Jesus put his hands on them and prayed over them. Following the example of Christ, we have written a Blessing of the Children which we are using. You can find it at Blessing of the Children.  Have fun using it. If you have any questions, email me.