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The King’s Birthday
The Goodwill Church Christmas Pageant is rapidly approaching!
Here is some important information:
**Rehearsal for those with speaking
parts only-November 13th at 1:30pm
GBI Classes will participate as groups as follows:
Pre-K (4’s)=Stars
Kindergarten-1st=Angels
2nd-3rd= Shepherds
4th-5th= Workers at the Inn
NOTE: We need as many children as possible to participate. If your child will
be participating, sign up outside your child’s class room or I must receive an
email from you no later than November
15th!
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NOVEMBER 2011 “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.” Psalm 100:4
GOODWILL CHURCH CHILDREN’S MINISTRY NEWSLETTERCHERI O’HARE, DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN’S MINISTRY [email protected]
Speaking Parts Still Needed:Narrator C*Narrator D*
Angel2 Kings*
Non Speaking:Mary*
Joseph*Animals
*5th grade and upInterested??
Contact Cheri O’Hare
Each Grade level will be singing a song as a group. In addition, everyone will sing “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” and “O, Come All Ye Faithful” at the end of the pageant. Please help your child learn their song at home. There won’t be time to teach the songs at rehearsals. **Lyrics can be obtained from your
GBI teacher, at the check-in desk, or on the church website under Children’s Ministry.
Songs by grade level are:Pre-K=Twinkle Twinkle Christmas Star
Kindergarten-1st grade=
2nd-3rd grade=First Noel4th-5th grade=Away in a Manger
6th-8th grade=We Three Kings
Due to a lack of interested
participants, Jr. Choir has been
cancelled for the season. We will
try to recruit again in January for
Easter.
Thank you for your generosity!
The GEMS Girls Club raised over $1600 to help with the
completion of the Esther School for Orphans and
Under Privileged Children in Zambia, Africa. God
Bless you for helping make a difference!
Collection Week is November
14th-21st!
Pack your box, including $7.00 for shipping, and pray for the recipient.
Then bring it to church and we do the rest!
Thank you for helping bring the story of Jesus to a child in poverty or war torn
country! To help during collection week contact Sandie Parolie,
The King’s Birthday cont’dRehearsals are:
Sunday, December 4th at 1:30pmFriday, December 9th 6-9pm (Required Dress Rehearsal)
Pageant is:Saturday, December 10th at the 7pm service. *Snow date is Sunday, December 11th at 3pm
Questions? Contact Cheri O’Hare. Pageant Costumes:Costumes can be purchased or homemade. Oriental Trading is an excellent source for inexpensive costumes. www.oritienaltrading.com, click Holidays-Christmas-Inspirational Costumes(Note: if purchasing or making a costume will cause your family undue financial hardship please let me know..)
Pre-K Girls: Christmas Dress, Boys: Sweater and dark pants and Star Mask*.K-1st grade Angel Costume2nd-3rd grade Shepherd costume4th-5th grade Biblical times attire of townspeople (see example on Bulletin Board)6th-8th grade kings servant attireNarrators and Ensemble Singers: Dark
bottom, festive top.
*Star mask-we will make in class.
November’s GBI Theme:
JOY!It’s fitting that our Fruit of the Spirit this month
is Joy because we
cannot have true Joy without knowing how to
be thankful. Being content no matter what
our circumstances will
give us lasting Joy. This is not easy to do because
life is hard, and sometimes unfair, and
that makes us unhappy.
Remember though, Joy isn’t about being
happy...it’s about being satisfied. We are
satisfied when we
acknowledge God’s grace and provision in
our lives by giving thanks.
Help your child
this month to remember to be
thankful for the things, and
people God has
placed in their lives. You may
want to do this as a family
activity sharing
what you are thankful for
each day. Have a Blessed
Thanksgiving!
NOGEMS or
Boys Brigade
Nov. 23rdNO GBIClasses
Nov. 27thGBI Faculty
are celebrating with their families.
Next MonthDecember 4 th Pa gea nt Rehearsal 1:30pmD e c e m b e r 9 t h D r e s s Rehearsal 6pm-9pmDecember 10th Pageant at 7pm, Dinner 5pm-6:30pmDecember 18th Cantata 9am and 11:30am, Christmas BallDecember 21 Blue Christmas Service 7pmDecember 24th Christmas Eve Services 5pm and 7:30pmDecember 25th Christmas Day 9am and 11:30am NO Children’s Ministries.January 1st NO Children’s Ministries
By the President of the United States of America.A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward,Secretary of State
November Birthdays!To our friends with birthdays this month, we thank God for you! You are such a special blessing to your families and your church family!
May God bless your special day!
Happy Birthday Eddie, Ida Fay, Brayden, Alessandra, Robbie,
Melanie, Ariana, Katelyn, Mark, Matthew, Jacob, Anthony, and Amelia!
Happy and Blessed
Thanksgiving to you and
your family!
May God Bless you!
