By Jane Fryar on September 1, 2010
Are you looking for help in planning this year’s fall festival? Do you need games, crafts, activities, and snack ideas? Or even a new theme to spur the thinking of your event planning team? Then consider CTA’s new fall festival theme: Light the Night with Jesus! And check out the new event planning guide that accompanies [...]
Posted in Children's ministry, Fall Festival, Free Resources, Halloween alternative, Ministry, Outreach/Evangelism, Witnessing Tagged bible, children's ministry, Christian, evangelism, Fall Festival, outreach, Sunday School, teacher
By Anne Conway on October 21, 2009
Fall is upon us in all its glory. Families have adjusted to the “back to school schedule,” the temperatures are dropping, and so are the leaves! I find this to be a very special time of year, yet another beautiful season God sends us to enjoy. With these changes, we also begin to see pumpkins [...]
Posted in Children's ministry, Fall Festival, Ministry, Teachers, Witnessing Tagged children's ministry, Fall Festival, Sunday School, teacher
By Debra Kreienkamp on September 18, 2009
As a preschool teacher in a Christian school, I get to create art projects for my students. I look especially for projects that are fun and faith-filled. Parents love to see what their children have created, so art projects can provide the perfect opportunity to share Jesus in a non-threatening way. Connecting an art project [...]
Posted in Children's ministry, Fall Festival, Halloween alternative, Outreach/Evangelism, Sunday School, Teachers Tagged children's ministry, children's pastor, Christian school, Fall Festival, family, Pumpkin Prayer
By Debra Kreienkamp on August 25, 2009
My passion in life is making people feel special and especially kids. Some of those people are kids who think they are no longer kids—college kids. In this age of text messaging, Facebook, and e-mail, it sometimes seems everyone knows everything about everyone. But keeping the lines of communication open with what college kids are really [...]
Posted in Ministry Tagged children, college, communication, email, Encouragement, facebook, Fall Festival, family, food, God, kids, outreach
By Anne Conway on July 14, 2009
As we continue to enjoy the quiet, lazy days of summer, I like to take advantage of the “down time” to plan some plans for the busy days ahead. I am enjoying spending the summer with my children home from school, but like most moms, I know I’ll get very again when school starts. In [...]
Posted in Christian Worker, Ministry, Sunday School, Teachers Tagged appreciation, Christmas, Encouragement, Fall Festival, Halloween
Plan Now–for Halloween Alternative!
By Jane Fryar on September 8, 2009
Over the years here at CTA, we’ve learned to tell when a trend has started to roll. Fall Festival is one of those trends we’ve seen gathering momentum in churches for almost a decade now. How do we know it’s gathering steam? For one thing, we watch our mail. It’s only the first week in September, [...]
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