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Save These Dates!
August 6th - August 10th
Vacation Bible Camp "ROME: Paul and the Underground Church"
ages 3 years-4th grade
August 12
@ 11:30-12:30
Hennepin Kids Parent Meeting
Church of Youth Room
*childcare is provided
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Last Week (7/22)
Joyful Uproar - No Hennepin Kids Sunday School
Next Week (8/5)
Fruits of the Spirit
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Children's Sabbath
On Sunday, July 29th, we will be celebrating Children's Sabbath as a church community.
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Children's Sabbath is an interfaith tradition that was started by the Children's Defense Fund.
Our observance of Children's Sabbath encourages the following:
- raise awareness of problems facing children and families (such as poverty, gun violence, and lack of health care);
- explore the texts and teachings in our Christian tradition that call us to nurture and protect children with love and justice;
- engage our community of faith in immediate and long-term action to nurture, protect, and seek justice for children.
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 Our celebration will include our
Joyful Uproar Campers leading worship with their musical, "Paul and Co. We will also have the special music of some amazing young cellists in worship, and the United Methodist Women are hosting an
Ice Cream Social to raise funds and awareness for the
Jericho Eye Clinic.
The Jericho Eye Clinic works in partnership with Lions International and Wesley Methodist Church in Browns Town, Jamaica to distribute 5,000 pairs of glasses each year for those in need in north central Jamaica. Each February, a team of volunteers from MN (including an optometrist) works alongside volunteers from Wesley for six days distributing glasses and providing the gift of vision to children and adults.
There will be no Hennepin Kids Sunday School on Children's Sabbath. This is a worship experience especially designed for the entire family!
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July 8th-July 29th
It's time for our annual School Supply drive! We don't want to wish away these precious summer days, but July is the time that retailers run sales on school supplies. During the month of July, we will be collecting school supplies for students in need. Donations will be distributed nationally through UMCOR, and here in our own city at Minnesota Internship Center (MNIC), the Dignity Center, and Joyce Preschool.
You can pick up a list of needed items in the clear Ziploc bags for filling at the Reception desk, at the Sunday School check-in station, and at the usher stations before and after worship. Take a bag, or a few; fill them with the listed items, and bring them back to the bin in the East Entry throughout the month of July. We'll do the rest!
Here is a
list of needed supplies:
- Backpacks
- Pocket folders with 3 ring
- Wide or college ruled single subject notebooks
- Packets of 100-200 sheets looseleaf paper
- Pencils & Pens
- Boxes of 24 crayons
- Blunt tip scissors (no plastic ones)
- Hand-held pencil sharpeners
- Rulers (with centimeter markings included)
- 2 gallon size plastic bags
- Paper towels
- Play-Doh
- Dixie cups (5 oz)
- Paper cups (8-12 oz)
- Paper plates
- Water color paints
- Kleenex
- Dry-erase markers & washable markers
- Dot art painters
- Stickers
- Glitter crayons & glitter glue
- Colorful tape
- Scented markers
- Combination locks
-Thank you!
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JOURNEY
By by Aaron Becker
A lonely girl draws a magic door on her bedroom wall and through it escapes into a world where wonder, adventure, and danger abound. Red marker in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon, and a flying carpet that carry her on a spectacular journey toward an uncertain destiny. When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Can it also lead her home and to her heart's desire? With supple line, luminous color, and nimble flights of fancy, author-illustrator Aaron Becker launches an ordinary child on an extraordinary journey toward her greatest and most exciting adventure of all.
Want to see other recommended books about adventure from Beaming Books? Check out this spectacular reading list here!
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Come Join Us In Rome this Summer!
AUGUST 6TH - AUGUST 10TH
9:00 AM TO 12:00 PM
Who will be in your family? Our "Rome" Vacation Bible Camp begins on August 6th! Join Hennepin Kids for LYFE as we form families and experience the ancient marketplace, meet the Apostle Paul, and learn about how early Christians met in secret caves! If you haven't already, make sure to visit haumc.org/events to register!
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Let's Talk Summer Camps...
Our Summer Sunday School attendance continues to grow! However, our Summer Camp attendance continues to decline. Something is not adding up! We need to hear from YOU!
Please join us on Sunday, August 12th at 11:30 in the Church of Youth room to share your input and to brainstorm ideas for exciting, new summer ministries for Hennepin Kids for LYFE!
Input in needed from parents with children of all ages!
Grab brunch and bring it with you! We'll have a teen or two to help wrangle kids!
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What if your entire family only had $1/day to eat and live?
What if your school lunch was the only meal that you ate every day?
What if school lunch ran out before you were served?
This is the reality for hundreds of children and their families in Baiwalla, Sierra Leone. But here's some great news! We are changing lives.Thanks to the partnership between OC Ministries' Baiwalla Outreach Team, Hen
nepin members and other United Methodists, we have sponsored 23 children and counting! Sponsoring a child ($150 total) covers school tuition fees, books, uniforms, and a daily lunch for one year.
"Beans for Baiwalla" is a joint project that will supplement the food available for the school lunch program, so that there will be enough lunch for every student. It's easy to help! To make a donation, send bags of dried beans with your children when you drop them off at VBC! If you are interested in sponsoring a child, please contact Ann Carlson at carlsonaj99@gmail.com for more information.
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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, compassion, and adventure! This week, we have some tips to keep your kids sharp, active, and curious this summer.
It's that time of the year: kids are getting restless and you can't wait for school to be back in session. On top of that, you might be worrying about this thing called "summer learning loss."
It's that time of the year: kids are getting restless and you can't wait for school to be back in session. On top of that, you might be worrying about this thing called "summer learning loss."
There are many studies that have researched and proven that kids lose a lot of what they learned during the school between June and August. The three-month gap of learning can make it so teachers need to repeat almost two months of what kids already learned the year before.
When it comes to reading and spelling, kids lose on average one month of more of spelling learning skills. This is only second to math skills, where kids lose two months. And these losses aren't temporary. The losses over each summer can accumulate and eventually make a student be a whole grade level behind in understanding.
Many schools and organizations put on camps and send homework for the summer to help compensate for this gap, but on average this gap tends to be filled by parents. And as a parent, that can be a lot of pressure.
Here are a few ways to help fill that gap:
Visit museums, history centers, and more. Forbes has a list of the Top 10 Children Museum's here! Find a few museums near you and spend a few hours there. Look ahead and see if there are days where admission is free or discounted. Most museums have certain days and times where they have tours or fun activities for kids to do.
Read! Visiting the library is a free way to cool off from the summer heat and let your kids explore some great books. Take some time for yourself after settling your kids at a children book reading or summer program that your local library is putting on.
Send them to educational camps. Some states even have programs for the summer that will give kids financial aid to go to some awesome camps! Check out STEM schools and camps to find some science-based options.
Enter to win 31 free children's faith-based books! Let your kids read a library full of faithful summer reads - for FREE. Click here to learn more and enter to win.
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