MISSIONS CONVENTION 2012 - Let's Make a Deal or No Deal

   
   On Sunday morning May 20th, our Children's Ministry hosted our 2nd Annual Game Show "Let's Make a Deal or No Deal" featuring classic game show games that have been on television "back in the day." These games were from classic game shows such as Wonderama, Deal or No Deal, Let's Make a Deal and Wheel of Fortune. Our Game Show host Jacob Mathai did a fabulous job (doing 2 programs by the way) as we asked questions from 2 parables in the bible. The Parable of the Lost Son and the Parable of the Good Samaritan.
   Everyone who attended received a free "clapper" and some even left with lots of prizes!!

Resurrection Celebration - April 8 2012

What a great day we had in the house of the Lord on Easter Sunday or as we like to call it...Resurrection Sunday! There were a total of 185 children who came to our Fellowship Center at either the 8:30 am, 10:30 am or 12:30 pm services. This year we changed things up a bit so that our kids would see a new approach to the Easter celebration. We did something called a "Walk through the Bible!" After we did some fun songs and Grandpa Lou paid a visit, our kids were given "map cards" and then headed to the very first "station" where Mary and Joseph shared with them about baby Jesus. The other stations were bible characters in this order.

1. The Disciples

2. Blind Bartimaeus

3. A Pharisee

4. A Roman soldier

After the Roman soldier shared, Pastor Dave shared a brief message all about the cross. Many hands went up after the message. It was so awesome to see all the children who gave their hearts to Jesus for the very first time!!

PRE-SCHOOL EASTER EGG HUNT - April 7 2012

After a 1 week delay of our egg hunt due to rain, we were finally able to hide our Easter eggs for our pre-schoolers on April 7th...one day befroe Resurrection Sunday. We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day! 28 3-5 year old along with parents and grandparents came ready to have a blast! Our kids colored and had a snack in our pre-school room then it was off to the starting line for the start of our egg hunt. Each child got to pick 20 eggs. Our morning ended in our auditorium as Pastor Dave told a story and presented the gospel with his salvation bag. The kids also got to see Tiki the Toucan, Sonkist and Shelton the Shark! It was a great event and we look forward to our next egg hunt which will be March 23, 2013!

SUPER SUNDAY 2012

What an awesome morning we had at our 4th annual Super Sunday on February 5th...just 10 or so hours before the kickoff of Super Bowl XLVI between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots. Many of the kids were dressed up in the jersey of their favorite NFL team and many also came dressed as cheerleaders! Object lessons were done by our children's ministry staff and we had the privilege of having Nicole Rotondi do a "chalk drawing' of the story of Elijah & the Prophets of Baal! Between three services we had close to 170 attend! What a great morning of ministry!

WEEK OF PRAYER 2012 - January 8-13

During the week of January 8-13 on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friiday evenings, our children @ SGT gathered to seek the Lord and pray for many needs. Prayerwalking was done throughout the church and Smithtown Christian school building on Sunday, Monday and Thursday evenings. On Wednesday evening, our kids prayed for ll of the schools here on Long Island and the impact they can have on these schools. We concluded our week on Friday eveing as we prayed for our Government including President Obama, Vice President Biden and the State of New York Senators, Governors and Congressmen! We also prayed for 4 of our missionaries our church supports. It was so awesome seeing the children cry out to God each evening!

BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR JESUS - December 17 2011

With well over 70 children in attendance, we had an awesome morning of celebrating the birthday of our Lord and Savior Jesus. All the kids had a breakfast menu to choose from as well as a program by Magic Vinny, Grandpa lou and Shelton the Shark came for a visit and there were also fun games and a live Nativity! This event is quickly becoming a huge tradition in our children's ministry and it was a great way to cap off a great year of ministry to children!

SUMMER 2011 REPORT

It is so hard to have 5 minutes to blog so here is a report about two huge events we hosted this summer here at Smithtown Gospel Tabernacle. Let's start with our Vacation Bible Camp!

Well over 350 kids attended our annual Vacation Bible Camp (yes camp) and our theme for 2011, which was Son Surf Beach Bash. Each morning our kids enjoyed bible lessons, crafts, recreation and our drama team featuring Taylor Miles, TJ Styles, Big D and Hector the Protector. Our kids also met for the first time a new puppet character Roscoe from the Island of Bing Bango. Our VBC took place the week of July 18-22!

Our annual Missions Camp took place the week of August 8 - 12 with close to 100 kids attending. The countries we hosted this year were France, Puerto Rico, Nigeria and India. Each mrning we had various home and forieign missionaries share with our campers. Our campers also learned drama, puppets and split time between crafts and international games. Our camp eneded with an awesome closing program as our campers performed drama, puppets and language with their families. Our oal for this camp is simple. We hope one day our campers will have a huge desire to serve Jesus on the mission field or wherever God has them in the future!