Last week our children's choir shared "Tell Me the Stories of Jesus," Olive Burkhard was baptized as we watched, we had our story time around a campfire (pretend), and shared ideas about ways we could show love. Then: Mother's Day coupons! This Sunday, we will hear...
While the kids were at family camp (please look on our Facebook link for great pictures) last Sunday, we had an especially lovely time at Westwood Kids Choir when one of our little choristers was invited to help lead a song. Isn’t music amazing? The...
“I give this to you in love,” each child responded as another child chose the toy that they had brought for our Toy Swap. And in this way, we tried to find a contemporary way of learning how the first century disciples shared all they...
Are we starting a commune in the children’s department at church? No, but we do want to learn for ourselves what the Holy Spirit enabled the disciples and followers of Jesus to do: to share what they had in common. And the way we hope...
When do you recognize Jesus? And why didn’t Simon & Cleopas recognize him on the Road to Emmaus? Why did it take breaking bread together before they knew him? We have so much to talk about in this fabulous story that happened three days after...
Easter is coming! We’ll un-bury the ALLELUIAS, sing in worship, and have a scavenger Easter egg hunt! We look forward to Easter when the Westwood Kids Choir sings in the Sanctuary and the Loft in the 11:00 services! At 10:20 the Alleluias will have been unburied, and we can go as families through an Easter Egg...
Please bring your family to join together in front of the church at 9:25. You’ll each get a palm branch and we’ll process down the “parade route” to wave your branches. After the music stops, we’ll lay down our branches, and the grown-ups will sit...
What Bible story do we know that might explain why the Pool of Siloam gave the man born blind a chance to see? When I asked that question after the Godly Play sacred story time last week, one of our third graders made a deep...
Is there a story of Jesus and the Man Who Was Born Blind in the sanctuary? During Sunday School, we’ll wonder together: How does Jesus see, really see, what is before him? And how does that “seeing” bring healing to those who are invisible? In...