AWANA Update

This year we celebrated our first AWANA AWARNIVAL. We have always had awards, and we have alward had a carnival, but this year we joined them into one fantastic event. There is a collection of pictures available HERE. If you have some pictures, please send them to us and we will add them.

RegistrationWe are now registering for the 2008-2009 AWANA Year. There are two ways you can sign up:Register ONLINE with a credit card or electronic check. Register BY MAIL or IN PERSON with a paper form.

Staff Change and Promotion

Terri O'Bannon has served faithfully as a part-time staffer at Colonial, working in the Sunday morning nursery and preschool. She resigned a few months ago and took a position at a crisis pregnancy center. We are grateful for hre faithful service and congratulate her on her new role.

On June 1, Melissa Hodge will become Colonial’s Director of Nursery and Preschool. Melissa has been working on Colonial’s weekday Meadowland Preschool program, and since Terri’s resignation, she has helped out with preschool Sunday School. Due to the growing demands in Colonial Nursery and Preschool areas, the Elders funded this as a full-time position.If you have a child age birth through 5, Melissa will be serving you and your family. Please be sure to welcome her when you have a chance. You can reach her at mhodge@colonial.org.

Terri Writes The Following...

It has been an honor and privilege for me to serve as Colonial’s Nursery/Preschool Director for the past six years under the guidance and direction of Pastor Scott Wylie and Pam Hewitt, our Executive Director of Children’s Ministries! Many of you may have already heard that the Lord has led me to the LifeCare Pregnancy Center in Raleigh to minister and share the hope that Christ offers to teens and women in crisis pregnancies. My time at Colonial has been precious and I have so enjoyed serving with our faithful nursery volunteers that take time out of their schedules each week to serve Him in Colonial’s nursery. How blessed I have been to serve with nursery parents that seek to raise their children in homes that honor Christ as Savior! I will not be going very far as I look forward to teaching a Sunday school class in the new school year! Thank you for allowing me this time in the lives of your children!

Terri O’Bannon
Nursery Director

RISING 6th GRADE!!

Students entering Grade 6 will promote to Middle School on June 1. That evening, there is a special party for them (and the rest of the Middle School students) at JELLYBEANS . This Middle School Family Skate Night is June 1st from 5:30pm -8:00pm. The cost is only $5 per person ($1 extra for in-line skates). Bring Extra money for concessions.

KidU 2008

As April showers give way to May flowers, summer plans are well underway for many families here at Colonial. With all of your calendars quickly filling, your Children’s Ministries family wanted to tell you that we have something special planned for your children this summer: KidU. This blend of classes and camps is specifically designed as an enrichment program for children, age 2-grade 5, which will take place here at Colonial, June 30-August 8. Children will be exposed to a variety of activities in the hopes that an interest will be sparked and a passion ignited in their hearts to use those skills as a way to share Christ with those around them. Furthermore, Pam Hewitt, KidU Director, encourages that your children will be under the supervision of “teachers who love the Lord and want to share that [love] with the kids.” Bones, Fossils & Dinosaurs, Bowling, Cake Decorating, Fishing and Volleyball are just a few of the classes that will be offered. Check out the colonialkids.org website today for more details and to register.

Resource Review

Peril & Peace
Volume I: Chronicles of the Ancient Church
by Mindy and Brandon Withrow

A review of the History Lives series

We’ve all the heard the tired axiom, “We must learn from history or we will be doomed to repeat it.” Indeed, we should learn from history. However, for the Christian who reads the gripping stories of faith and courage from church history, the axiom changes, “We must learn from history in hopes that we may have the faith to repeat it.”

Mindy and Brendan Withrow have done thorough research into the lives of godly men and women throughout church history. They have taken the facts uncovered by this research and combined them with an engaging writing style to create a kind of “historically factual fiction.” The fiction element comes in as they bring the scenes to life for the reader, filling in details such as sounds, smells, sights, and possible conversations. The result is a series of church history books that you and your children will not want to put down.

It should be noted that many of the lives detailed in these books conclude in martyrdom. Though necessary and historically accurate, these details may be too graphic for younger children.

~~~~ These books receive four lightning bolts out of a possible four.

These books receive a PG-rating due to violent content and mature subject matter.

Nursery Schedule

The Nursery schedule foe June 2008 is not available on the website. Please click HERE to see the schedule of you are one of the rotating parent volunteers.