TURKEY BOWL 2009 - November 22, 2009

On Sunday, November 22nd during the 8:30 am & 12:15 pm Kidz for Christ services, our Children's Ministry held it's first ever Turkey Bowl. Object lessons were taught on what it means to give thanks. The bible lesson we taught was the story of the Ten Lepers. The event began with our kids making a Thanksgiving wreath and ended with a game of "Bible Land", a life size version of the popular board game Candy Land. We had a visit from Mr. Turkey as well as our puppet friends Rocky Bambino and Mad Maxx. It was a great morning of celebrating what it means to give thanks to our Lord!!

FALL FUN FEST 2009 - October 31, 2009

It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon outside but inside of the Smithtown Gospel Tabernacle Fellowship Center, you could feel the enthusiasm and excitement of every child who came to our 18th annual Fall Fun Fest. With our newly dedicated building expansion available for our event, we we able to add more games and give Moms, Dads, children and guests more breathing room. We had inflates available for the children, face painting, carnival games, God's little princess (where girls could get their nails done and make a princess crown) as well as food for sale and popcorn, caramel apples and cotton candy.

The whole afternoon was wrapped up with a puppet musical GPS that was presented in the Auditorium. Thanks to everyone who helped out as well as everyone who brought their children to this great event.

FALL KICK-OFF 2009 - September 13, 2009

Goal posts, a football field, mascots and 2 referees were just part of our first ever Fall Kick-off 2009. On Sunday, September 13th, our Fellowship Center looked a little different as we hosted a big pep rally to advertise the various children's ministries this fall at SGT. We had representatives from Children's Sunday school, Royal Rangers, Kidz for Christ, Missionettes, Preteens, Middlers and Rainbows. Our two referee's (Stepen Zarlengo & Pastor Dave) did their best to keep the crowd in line as well as the games moving forward.

Each ministry leader ran onto our carpetted field after being introduced by our PA announcer Joe Otero.

This looks like a new tradition here at SGT every fall so stay tuned!!

MISSIONS CAMP - August 17-21, 2009

Well over 100 children between grades 1 to 6 filled our Fellowship Center for our 6th annual Missions Camp. The country we hosted this year were Belize, Morocco, Italy and Brazil. Our campers had the privilege of learning drama and puppetry as well as making bible book covers that will be given to our missionaries. We also had some incredible speakers such as Pastor Rich Collingridge, James Ryan from Lighthouse Mission, a team from London, England who were visiting the U.S., Diane Dunne of Hope for the Future as well as Rob Franco from Youth for Christ and Jessie Vance from YWAM Metro New York. Our camp ended with our closing program as each camper performed drama and puppets for their parents.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL 2009

What a great week of ministry we had from July 20-24. All children ages 5 to grade 6 enjoyed an awesome week of bible lessons, recreation, crafts, music and puppets all in “Studio Go Game Show” our theme for 2009. The children learned what it means to go serve, go lead, go risk, go tell and go obey. The kids loved the energetic Praise and worship from our live band directed by Children’s ministry assistant Desiree Cirillo as well as visits from our incredible Game Show host Wade Winalot (Jacob Mathai) and our puppet contestants Coach Armstrong (Jordan Harff) and Professor Wordsmart (Kaylee Harff).A huge thank you to the many adult and youth helpers whop volunteered their time each morning to serve as well as to our director Linda Saunders and Maryann Zuber. With our mission project this year, we were able to collect over 800 cans of food for our churches food pantry. On Friday evening, July 24th we had an awesome Closing Program which some parents dubbed “the best ever!” We look forward to 2010 knowing God has great things in store for us as we continue to serve Him and minister to the children here on Long Island.

MISSIONETTES CLOSING PROGRAM - June 5, 2009

Our Missionettes celebrated the 2008-2009 year with a Closing program and dessert. It is always so hard to say goodbye to programs during the school year BUT...we always can look forward to them returning in September!

Not only was it a great night of food and fellowship, but each class had the opportunity to minister by way of drama, dance and reciting bible verses. The Rainbows class also joined in the festivities as well. It was such a blessing to see the number of parents who came out to supp

ort their children! We will not only see you this fall, but hopefully at our summer programs!

MEMORIAL DAY PARADE - May 25, 2009

We could not have asked for a more beautiful day! The Children's Ministries once again participated in the Memorial Day Parade in Smithtown, NY with our Studio Go Game Show float as well as many Missionettes, Royal Rangers, Rainbows, CSWAM (Christian Singles with a Mission) and the SCS Cheerleaders. Having the opportunity to play christian music while our float is traveling down Main Street in Smithtown is an awesome way to spread the gospel right here in our own Jerusalem. A huge "Thank you" to all the SGT kids who supported the Children's Ministries on Memorial Day.