Save These Dates!
March 24th @ 10am-noon
2nd Annual Hennepin Kids Easter Egg-stravagaza!
A joyful, family-friendly experience egg-specially designed for young kids, older kids, and kids at heart!
*register at
hennepinchurch.org/events
June 16th - June 24th
*New* Family Mission Trip Opportunity! Henderson Settlement at Red Bird Mission Conference
learn more at: hendersonsettlement.com
June 24th - June 30th
LYFE Camp
July 8th - July 11th
Earth Camp@Koinonia Retreat Center
for kids that have completed 1st-6th grade
for kids that have completed 1st-6th grade
July 28th - August 5th
Sr. High Mission Trip
*registration opens soon!
August 6th - August 10th
Vacation Bible Camp "ROME: Paul and the Underground Church"
ages 3 years-4th grade
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Sunday Snap Shot
Whirl-LittleKids-MiddleKids
Last Week (3/11)
Next Week (3/25)
Jesus is Risen
Connect - Big Kids
Last Week (3/11)
Betrayal
This Week (3/18)
Death
Next Week (3/25) Resurrection
Re:form - Club 67
Last Week (3/11) Judas Iscariot
This Week (3/18)
Pontius Pilate
Next Week (3/25)
Mary Magdalene
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Funny Things
from our favorite blogs...
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Palm Sunday is Coming Up!
Please join us for our annual Palm Parade
Sunday, March 25th! Just as in Jerusalem on the original Palm Sunday, all are welcome to begin Holy Week with the waving of Palms.
Meet in Carlson Hall at 9:45 to get your Palms and line up for our annual parade through the Sanctuary!
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Sunday, March 25 - Palm Sunday
Please join us for our annual Palm Parade! Just as in Jerusalem on the original Palm
Sunday, all are welcome to begin Holy Week with the waving of Palms. Meet in Carlson Hall at
9:45 to get your Palms and line up for our annual parade through the Sanctuary!
Thursday, March 29 - Maundy Thursday
12 Noon in the Art Gallery
7pm in the Sanctuary*
Friday, March 30 - Good Friday
12 Noon in the Art Gallery
7pm Tenebrae in the Sanctuary*
Sunday, April 1 - Easter Sunday!
7am Sunrise Service in the Art Gallery
8am Pancake Breakfast in the Social Hall
9am & 11am Traditional Worship featuring handbells, brass, and Sanctuary Choir
*Nursery care available
*Reminder
There will be NO Hennepin Kids
Sunday
School on Easter
Sunday
. Our Easter worship services are rich with special music and message for the entire family. We will also have special take home bags for kids! Check for them at all of the sanctuary entrances.
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We need your plastic Easter eggs! One of our activities for the Easter Egg-stravaganza requires a dozen plastic eggs per child. If you have plastic eggs at home that you are not using, we would love to have them! You may leave them at the reception desk. Please label them, "for Lynne Carroll." Thanks!
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LYFE Camp
June 24th-June 30th
Joyful Uproar
July 23rd-July 27th
8:00am-12:00pm
Vacation Bible Camp
August 6th-August 10th
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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We are so excited for our upcoming summer camps! Take a look at this highlight reel from Vacation Bible Camp's "Hero Central" last summer! And remember, register for camps online at
hennepinchurch.org/events
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March 24th
8am-1pm
You March, We watch your kids!
Hennepin Kids for LYFE strongly supports the March For Our Lives, and we want to provide every opportunity for families to attend. We know that marching with
young children may be challenging, and we have a solution! Hennepin Kids will be extending the time frame for our 2nd Annual Hennepin Kids Easter Egg-stravaganza in order to offer childcare for parents that wish to ride the church bus to the March. We will provide care and activities for children ages infant-4th grade from 8am-1pm.
Kids will enjoy Easter egg dying, a special egg hunt, crafts, a light lunch, and dessert that we will create ourselves! *Parents are also still welcome to attend the Egg-stravaganza with their kids on a drop-in basis if they are not attending the March.
*this is a free event, but YOU MUST register your kids at hennepinchurch.org to help with our planning.
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March is Food Awareness Month!
Food Month Challenges:
Week Three
"Awareness"
You have $2.50 to buy lunch: look at different foods to see what options are available. Through this activity one is aware how expensive food is. Discuss eating on a budget and how many children do not even have $2.50 to eat lunch every day.
 **Read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle and discuss what it feels like to be hungry. Take "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" book to the grocery store and do a Hungry Caterpillar Hunt to Fight Hunger -- select foods that the caterpillar ate then donate to our #FullheartsFullplates food drive, Get creative with food items that needed some adjustment, like canned or dried fruit, cereals that have fruit in them to substitute for the fruits the caterpillar eats.
People who are living in poverty do not always have access to fresh produce, dairy or meat products. Cook your dinner tonight using only cans of food.
Remember! Bring your food donations to Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church now through Easter Sunday!
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"Suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Does she not
light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?"
We have a lot of resources in our lives to keep us from getting lost. Maps direct us, signs point us to the right path, phone apps tell us when to make a turn. Some of us are born with an inner compass-it comes naturally to head in the right direction based on the sun, stars or other landmarks. Others of us struggle to find our cars in the parking lot and spend a lot of time feeling lost.
Throughout the New Testament, Jesus tells parables, or stories that teach lessons, to tell us about the depth of God's love for us. In Luke, Jesus tells a series of stories about lost things: a sheep, son and coin. In Luke 15, he tells about a woman who loses one of her ten silver coins. She has nine coins safely tucked away, but she turns the house upside-down to find the lost one. She lights a lamp to look in dark places, she sweeps the house to extend her reach into cracks in the floor, and she keeps up the hunt until she finds that lost coin. Once it is found, she is so happy, she can't help but share the great news with her loved ones.
God invites us to use these forty days of Lent to reconnect. When we go rogue or feel lost, God goes into search mode, shining light into the dark spots of our lives, sweeping into every crack of our hearts and won't stop pursuing us with love until we are found. Heaven rejoices when we become closer with God. Nothing can separate us from God's love!
Dig through your school's or church's Lost and Found bin to reunite your family with its lost items. Discuss these questions as you sort:
- Share stories of being lost. How did it feel to be lost? How were you found?
- What treasured items have you lost? List all of the places you looked for them.
- What was the most unusual place you ever found a lost item?
- What helps you stay on God's path?
- When you get spiritually lost or feel separated from God, what do you do to be found?
Play a good old-fashioned game of hide and seek. Take turns being "it." When you are found, share a reunion hug with the seeker. Rejoice that you have found each other!
Repeatedly hide a toy coin in your house throughout Lent. Challenge your children to find it. Whoever finds it gets to hide it the next time. Continue the search until Easter morning, when you can give away coins in Easter eggs to remind them of this story. Jesus does not give up the search for his lost precious ones!
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The
Values Project is a year-long initiative designed to equip families to raise children who thrive emotionally, socially, and spiritually. Get inspiration, practical ideas, family activities, and parenting tips from our network of seasoned parents and faith leaders, because it takes a village to raise a good human. Each month we'll explore a different value-like honesty, loyalty,
creativity, kindness, and more.
Creativity is a gift from The Creator. If we let them, children may be our best guides as we seek to wonder about the world and God's presence within it.
Written by: Sarah Logemann
How many uses can you think of for a paper clip?
Questions like this have been used to measure creativity in children and adults for many decades. Along with a multitude of other tests, the results have been undeniable and overwhelmingly consistent...
Children are VERY creative.
This conclusion is not at all surprising to anyone who spends time within earshot of the imaginative play of children. (Or anyone who hears a wildly fantastic story about how the cookies ended up under the covers of a 4-year-old's bed).
Kids are naturally good at divergent thinking - generating several unique ideas in response to questions like the paper clip one. For a 5-year-old, a paper clip could be a shovel for a mouse, a sock-connector, or marker to draw on the moon. Divergent responses like these dramatically lessen with age. By the time adults answer the question, their previous experiences and learned categories of the world limit the imaginative vigor they are able to bring to the situation.
Creativity is like a muscle that has to be worked out as we grow
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Continue Reading
Click
here
to download free activities that reinforce the value of kindness in fun, interactive ways. Your whole family can participate!
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Summer Camp Registration is open!
REGISTER TODAY!
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and
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Jar every Sunday!
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Listen to kids share their stories and get a sneak peak of all of our fun Hennepin Kids activities!
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