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January 17, 2013 -- Issue #2 - Volume 14

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1) Recycling Ideas
2) Recycling Idea
3) Goals for Students
4) Employment Opportunity / Year-round FUNdraiser
5) Bible Curriculum e-Books Available!

1) Recycling Idea

I have a couple recycle ideas. I use lids from yogurt containers to put glue in for projects and use Q-tips for the kids to spread the glue with. This makes for pretty quick clean up and I can buy large bottles of glue instead of the little ones. More cost effective. Also my all time best craft project was using milk jugs. The idea was not mine, I got it off the internet, but you use a coloring picture of a butterfly and tape it to the underside of the milk jug. I cut up the milk jug into smaller pieces that fit the picture. The kids color the picture on the front side of the milk jug and then cut it out. Using 3 pony beads and a pipe cleaner (half of one) you make the body of the butterfly and the antennae by folding the pipe cleaner in half, placing the butterfly in the middle, putting 2 pony beads on the top half of the pipe cleaner and the remaining one on both stems. Then bend the stems up to make the antennae. I really comes out cute. I then used the bottom of the milk jug, punching 4 holes in the corners and one in the middle to hang it up as a mobile- so you would need 5 butterflies to complete the mobile. Hope these are clear directions. The application being new life in Christ.

God Bless, 
Anne Fleming

2) Recycling Idea

>Do you have a clever idea to share of how you've reused "throw away" items in your children's ministry? 

I don't know that I've done this right but some suggestions for recycling throw away items is to see if there is a smaller church near by who could use materials. I know we have accepted materials from other churches as long as it didn't conflict with our own doctrinal beliefs OR that we could 'adjust' them. Also, finding places like children's home, or juvenile places who might want materials. Also we have sent things to prison ministries to be used. Even the young age material can reach an older person easier than materials on their age level can. Hope this helps!

3) Goals for Students

The last Sunday in December we talk about New Years Goals in Sunday School class. I teach 4 - 6 grade but this could work for any age. We read Luke 2:52 and talk about how Jesus grew and then we take the four areas 
( mind, body , relationship to God and relationship to man) and list ways that we could grow in those areas. (Both things to do and not do) Each child then chooses one for each area for a goal. We then pray about them and ask God to help us. We do a checkup weekly for the first month and then a checkup monthly to see how we are doing. Our memory verse for the week is Luke 2:52

4) Employment Opportunity / Year-round FUNdraiser

Do you need to raise funds for your children and youth program or need supplemental income?   
Then we welcome you to come along side our company to earn that extra money. Discover more on the following page: http://www.sundayschoolnetwork.com/fundraiser-ten-commandments-poster.htm  

5) Bible Curriculum e-Books Available!

We've expanded our line of e-book Bible curriculum and more are on the way! E-books cost significantly less than our hard copy books and you'll usually have your e-book within minutes after ordering. See our current selection on the following page: http://www.sundayschoolnetwork.com/curriculum_ebooks.html 

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