FrogSpot Kids

We have a couple of great events planned for this fall and winter. Hope you can join one or more of them.

• October 3, 2007: LOGOS Parent meeting/Registration. 6:30 pm, at United Methodist Church in Valentine, NE. LOGOS is a interdenominational mid-week kid’s ministry for grades k-12. For more contact me or just come to the parent meeting.
• October 17, 2007, LOGOS begins. Times and locations vary by age so contact (Uncle) Pastor Steve to find out when and where you’re grade level is meeting.
• November 7, 2007: Valentine Area Youth Rally (for grades 6-12). 7:00 PM Valentine Rural High-school auditorium, Valentine, NE. The guest speaker will be Dr. Mary Holley of Mothers Against Meth (MAMA). Her talk is: “Crystal Meth: They Call It Ice”. She’ll be joined by the Second Wind Band.
• December 1-2, 2007: Rural Adventist Youth Rally, (ages 10-15) at the North Platte Seventh-day Adventist Church, North Platte, NE. Begins at 3:30 pm on Sabbath (Saturday) and lasts till 5:00 pm on Sunday. This will be an over-night-er at the church so bring a sleeping bag and change of clothes. Also bring $2.50 for admission to the indoor rec. center and pool.
• December 9, 2007 6:30 pm: 3rd annual Cookie Decorating (all ages of kids) at Uncle Steve and Heather’s house, Valentine, NE. We’ll decorate cookies for the residents of the Pineview Nursing Home. They will be delivered on the 11th during the monthly birthday party hosted by my home church in Valentine. This is always one of the Highlights of the Christmas season for our church and community kids. I know you’ll have a blast!
• December 19, 2007: LOGOS Christmas Program. At the United Methodist Church, 7:00 PM. This program is put together by the kids in LOGOS (grades k-12) for the parents and community members to enjoy. Normally the High-school kids do most of the program but this year my elementary kids have taken the leading parts. They are really excited! I know it will be great.
• December 13, 20, 2007: I’ll be preaching first person sermons, in a dramatic fashion during the regular 11:00 am and 3:00 pm worship hours at the Seventh-day Adventist churches in Valentine and Springview Respectively. On the 13th I will portray Joseph, Jesus’ Earthly Father (Title: The Answer). On the 20th I will be one of the wisemen (Title: Following the Star).

To find out more about any of these events or to get directions just contact us and ask!

I’m looking forward to seeing you!

–Uncle Steve

Story Time at Ark-La-Tex Campmeeting: From Kid’s Ministry

Ark-La-Tex Campmeeting was a blast! We traveled 1,000 miles one way from Valentine, Nebraska to Jefferson, TX to lead the junior division for a bunch of wonderful kids. We transformed the chapel of Jefferson Academy into a super secret science lab where “Dr. N” had the juniors help with his top secret project–the Simon LX 2007! Access to the lab was controlled with a high-tech system, created especially for this event, complete with real badges (available for free to churches here).

The kids formed research teams that found Bible answers to life questions through scientific experiments such as black light, codes, micro-print, presser sensitivity and, of course, the Simon LX 2007 machine.

Of course it was not all scientific research we also had great singing (a campmeeting must) memory verse games, a water fight to end all water fights and the ever popular story time!

Simon LX 2007 also transported a roman soldier (played by Dr. Dick Stenbakken) from the 1st century AD to our lab where he explained how his armor is like the armor of God. after successfully transporting him back we set to making our own roman armor made to scale from authentic patterns (we used poster board instead of metal though).

The kids really loved the program and we have been invited back next year (we haven’t accepted yet, we’ll see).
Here’s some picts!

Scientific Discovery at Ark-La-Tex Campmeeting: From Kid’s Ministry

More Story Time at Ark-La-Tex Campmeeting: From Kid’s Ministry

Memory Verse Learning at Ark-La-Tex Campmeeting: From Kid’s Ministry

T. J. Trying On a Roman Soldier Helmet at Ark-La-Tex Campmeeting: From Kid’s Ministry

Simon LX 2007 at Ark-La-Tex Campmeeting: From Kid’s Ministry

Simon LX 2007’s Control Panel at Ark-La-Tex Campmeeting: From Kid’s Ministry

First Hand Account of the Crucifixion Told by the Crucifying Centurionat Ark-La-Tex Campmeeting: From Kid’s Ministry

This year we expanded science camp to be a whole week! This meant that we had the opportunity to show the many kids from other denominations and the non-Christian ones how to really celebrate Sabbath. It took some thought to come up with a Sabbath appropriate program that all the kids, even the ones who had never experienced Sabbath before, would enjoy. But it worked really well.

Water fight at Science Camp From Kid’s Ministry

My theme for the whole week was the Ten Commandments. The kids loved “The Perfect Ten” our theme song! We talked about important things about all 10 commandments; such as guys not being rats and girls not being cheese (Commandment # 7), how Jesus said that hating your brother is like murdering (6th Commandment), and The Ignored Birthday Party (4th Commandment). Don’t let anyone tell you that kids and teens can’t personalize deep, challenging Biblical concepts. They did and loved it!

Of course there were awesome scientific activities and presentations throughout the week (I don’t know where they find all that top notch stuff!), a huge water fight, good food (the kids even liked it!), swimming in the lake, and just plain fun. This year we partnered with the Assembly of God Camp to expand the activities we could offer. They had someone offer to bring horses up for their camp but since their camp is right in the middle of town they didn’t have any place to house them so we offered our facility! We got to use their horses and go carts and they got to use our pastures, lake and barn!

Water fight at Science Camp From Kid’s Ministry

All in all it was a great week! The best part for me, though, came later when the mom of one of the kids told me that her son had been thinking about some of my talks and had been seeking to apply them into his life with God’s help. She said she could see a change in him. In children’s ministry you don’t always hear these kinds of results right away (even though they happen all the time) so its encouraging when you do!

Have a great summer!

–Uncle Steve

Uncle Steve about to be secretly ambushed during a water fight at Science Camp. Don’t worry, I got him back From Kid’s Ministry

Hey kids!

This year’s Kansas Nebraska Campmeeting (See what Campmeeting is) was awesome! T. J., Mr. Guteeair and I all got to help out in the primary division (ages 7-9). Mr. Guteeair and I started each meeting off with a song service. The kids sang really loud, sometimes so loud that they couldn’t even hear us! We sang songs like The Froggy Song, Awesome God, All in All, and the Monkey Song!

I think my favorite song is The Froggy Song. I guess that’s because God and I wrote it and it means so much to me. What’s your Favorite song? I’d love to know. Why don’t you email me and tell me. Or, better yet, record yourself singing it and send it to me.

Happy singing!

Your friend,

Uncle Steve

This year at Kansas-Nebraska Campmeeting in Lincoln, NE, we, Uncle Steve, Mr. Guteeair (the guitar), Jamison (the computer), Fred the Frog and I all helped out in the Primary (ages 7-9) division. The main part of the program was a time machine that brought Bible characters out to tell their stories and ask the kids to help them make the right decision.

Uncle Steve, Jamison and Mr. Guteeair were in charge of the music. The Froggy Song, the Monkey Song, Awesome God, and All in All were favorite songs. I got to talk to the kids a few times and one time I go to go through the time machine dressed as a Bible character–That was fin!

–T.J. Tucker