Kids Club is one of my most favorite parts of my week each week.
I love getting the chance to pour into the lives of our youngest students, sharing the love and truth of our Savior. We meet once a week and share a lesson, songs, crafts, and games with our elementary students, reminding them that they are each loved and valued by all of us workers and more importantly, by our Heavenly Father. I love it!
When I restarted Kids Club 5 years ago, I was the only adult volunteer. I had lots of great Middle and High School Helpers that year. But it was tough being the only "grown-up." Then the next year I was joined by the wife of one of our teachers and occasionally by other teachers as well. It was such a nice change having good, adult help. Well, this year I've been blessed to have the group of ladies in the picture below helping each week. I joke that we're sometimes stepping over each other. But it's so nice having such a big group there each week, sacrificing of their own time and energy to love on our kids.
And I'd be crazy to not mention the MS/HS helpers we have had each week. Even though I didn't get any pictures of them today, I can assure you they worked their tails off. These kids have been such a blessing to all of us adult volunteers. I can't imagine having to do Kids Club each and every week without them. We truly are blessed by each of them (the ones pictured below AND all the ones I don't have pictures of as well)!
So, now for the reason for this post...
Today we had our annual Kids Club Christmas Party. But instead of the traditional Christmas-y type party, we threw a Happy Birthday Jesus Party. The kids LOVED it!
We had cake, courtesy of one of our amazingly talented adult volunteers...
We watched a movie that explained the REAL meaning of Christmas and we got to eat yummy snacks while we watched it.
We got to wear fun birthday hats :)
And the best part of all was that we got to hear all about the true meaning of Christmas - celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
All in all, I'd say it was a wonderful party. The kids were happy and the adults were too. The kids learned something valuable. So I left with a smile on my face :)
And now to end this post, I'll simply say...
Happy Early Birthday Jesus :)
And I'd be crazy to not mention the MS/HS helpers we have had each week. Even though I didn't get any pictures of them today, I can assure you they worked their tails off. These kids have been such a blessing to all of us adult volunteers. I can't imagine having to do Kids Club each and every week without them. We truly are blessed by each of them (the ones pictured below AND all the ones I don't have pictures of as well)!
So, now for the reason for this post...
Today we had our annual Kids Club Christmas Party. But instead of the traditional Christmas-y type party, we threw a Happy Birthday Jesus Party. The kids LOVED it!
We had cake, courtesy of one of our amazingly talented adult volunteers...
We watched a movie that explained the REAL meaning of Christmas and we got to eat yummy snacks while we watched it.
We got to wear fun birthday hats :)
And the best part of all was that we got to hear all about the true meaning of Christmas - celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
All in all, I'd say it was a wonderful party. The kids were happy and the adults were too. The kids learned something valuable. So I left with a smile on my face :)
And now to end this post, I'll simply say...
Happy Early Birthday Jesus :)
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