Beloved Friends and Families with Kids,
Last week our kids and youth did such a beautiful job leading in worship with song! Thanks to our adult choir, Pastor Leslie, and our parents for supporting this intergenerational experience. We are so blessed to have a church family where all ages get to be in community. This Sunday there are two things you won't want to miss! Joy Chura will be dedicated during worship, and then we will celebrate Pastor Chip's ordination service at 3pm in the sanctuary. We hope you can join us for these special moments in the life of our church community. See you tomorrow!
Summer Youth Retreat
We are making final arrangements for our upcoming youth trip and can't wait to hang with your amazing kids. In order to secure lodging, we would like to get a head count as soon as possible. As a reminder, the retreat will take place July 19-21 in the San Diego area. You can register your youth here. Let me know if you have questions about your youth's participation or if cost is an issue.
Kids Camp Registration
We are already making plans for camp this summer, and registration is now open! Camp will run June 24-28 from 9am-12pm each day. We are excited to help our kids encounter God's love together with people from our church family! Youth families, please note that the youth are invited to help again this year, and this can count for community service hours if they have any requirements through school or other organizations.
Opportunity for Youth in Worship
Instruments of Praise is a community nonprofit organization based in Pasadena and is part of the Clergy Community Coalition. They would like to invite any musically-talented teens to a training week on the APU campus June 16-22. To learn more, check out their website and share this flyer with a friend
Promotion Sunday | August 11
This year our Sunday for kids to move up to an older age group will be on August 11th! We are excited for our kindergarteners and sixth graders to make their transition to our older kids and youth groups, respectively. Stay tuned for more details as we get closer. In the meantime, they can continue to participate and soak up the time with their current groups. Yay for growth!
SUNDAY
KIDS
Our nursery room is open this Sunday for babies and toddlers four years old and under. Our nursery staff will be ready starting at 8:50 AM for those who are attending Sunday School before service and 10:20 AM for those coming just to worship. This week our nursery kids will explore how God is a good shepherd.
Our kids five to ten years old will join us in the sanctuary for the start of worship and then be dismissed to head to their classrooms together. They can begin service with their families or sit with Pastor Mary in the front pews. This week we will explore what it means to be formed by one another in the image of Christ. We will also have a special guest Nolan McSparran for some fun movement activities!
Discussion Questions for the Table at Home:
What does spiritual formation mean?
What are ways we form each other when we gather together?
YOUTH
This week our youth will do a special creative project for our youth room during our youth gathering, so please try to make it if you are in town! We will gather in the lobby and head over to the Southside room together. Lunch will be included, and we will wrap up at 1:30pm as usual.
Have a wonderful weekend, and thanks for being such a special community of families!
With deep affection for you,
Pastor Lindsay