DEVOTED - MOTHERING SUNDAY

We had a great morning together for Mothering Sunday - the school hall was full of Kingdom Kids, parents and church family. Our theme was devoted - and on Mothering Sunday recognised those devoted to us, and our call to be devoted to each other, and above all to God. We looked at Jonah, had team challenges and discussions, songs, music, dancing and lots more. Team of the Sunday was the Red Team. During Devoted we also welcomed about 8 new Kingdom Kids, and also the Childrens Ministry Team was commissioned. The picture shows some of the new Kingdom Kids, supported by other Kingdom Kids, and also members of the childrens ministry team who were commissioned by Captain Ian, our senior leader

Friday 9th March

Today we finished our programme of Jonah, with a summery of God's mercy and forgiveness towards us.

In our Throne room led by Sue, we learnt about the prodigal son and his fathers forgiveness towards him. With a trip to an imaginary theater with some fabulous famous actors and actresses tells us about this.

We had fun games led by Clare and played sink, sail and swim. This went down a storm with everyone.

Our challenge today was very difficult, but really great. Each team had to make a Whale that the whole team could fit inside, with some very large boxes. This was great with some very strange looking whales and was led by Heather.

We had lots of fun singing, dancing and worshiping the lord with Kingdom Kids and I'm gonna jump up and down. There was some great singing and fabulous dancing from everyone, including the adults!

It was amazing with many new faces and lots of old ones all having fun together.

Team of the week: Yellow

Kingdom Kid of the week: Hannah

Well done everyone, see you next week.

Friday 2nd March

This week we continued with the story of Jonah and how God had mercy on him. We had lots of fun playing a game of actions and lots of running about led by Sue. Our story this week was told by Heather and some of the children helping her act out the story of Jonah, a tree, a vine and a worm, Jonah 3-4. This was lots of fun.

We danced, sang and worshiped to our favourite Kingdom Kids and learnt a new song about grace and mercy. We danced around in a big circle and had groovy walking dancing. This was a great time of worship together, even with the adults strange dancing.

Our challenge this week was to draw the whole story of Jonah on a large piece of paper. Everyone in each team work well together and presented some lovely pictures back. We had some comic strips, some all over the place story and some collage stories. This was led by Clare and all pictures had God gives everyone mercy. The teamwork was fantastic.

After all this fun we concluded with some prayer, thinking about God's mercy on us- when God does not give us what we deserved and saying sorry for when we have been bad and not deserved God's mercy and thanking God for everything He gives us.

We had so much fun. If you would like to join us we would love to see you at 6pm-7.30pm at East Stour School on Fridays.

Team of the week: Yellow team
Kingdom Kid of the week: Olisa
Well done everyone. x

Firday 23rd February

This week was the first week back from the half term for Kingdom Kids and just like last term we had lots of fun.
We learnt about Jonah and God's mercy on a really bad and horrible city.
Rachel told us a fabulous story of Jonah and the Whale (or big fish) with lots of actions and team participation and acting.
We had a great game by Ellie in which we had to jump in and out the whale over a line. They all loved this game and asked to play again.
Sue led a great team challenge to act out the story in their own teams way. Blue team won this with the imaginative use of a hoop for a whale.
This weeks team of the week: Blue team
Kingdom Kid of the week: Jamie
Well done everyone and see you all next week.