St Jude's Kids!: September 2008

What's happening & what we're thinking about!

A bit of background: We are an evangelical church - that means we believe the Bible is the accurate record of God's dealings with people, and it's also his message to us, and not musty irrelevant stuff - it's just as fresh today as when it was written. We believe the Bible tells us how we can have a real relationship with the God who really exists, really made us, really loves us, and really visited earth 2000ish years ago, as the man Jesus. We believe Jesus died for us, so that nothing we've done can stop God from loving us. We believe he came back to life, and he's going to come back, and give us life like that too. And we reckon that if all that is really true, then we've no right to keep it to ourselves! Jesus said that kids can be friends with him too - he didn't send them away - actually, he said adults have got a lot to learn from kids, about being friends with God.So, if you like what you see, why not come and visit us in person? We're on the corner of Lygon and Palmerston Streets, Carlton - that's in Melbourne, Australia.For more information, please email kpeken@stjudes.org.au or telephone 03 9347 5152 during business hours.

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Family & childrens calendar 2010

12th September, Sun: Grade 6 ceremony - kids welcomed to Youth program
17th September, Fri: School Term 3 ends
19th & 26th September: Relaxed Sunday 'Thrive' program
3rd October, Sun: Term time kids 'Thrive' program starts again!
4th October, Mon: School goes back - Term 4
10th October, Sun: 'Toolbox' Parenting Seminar
November, Sundays at 9am and 11am: Social justice focus in Thrive groups
20th November, Saturday: Film & Pizza social night for Grades 3 to 6 - visitors welcome!
3rd December, Friday: Christmas Presentation for Christian Religious Education Princes Hill Primary School
8th December, Wednesday 10am: Playgroup Christmas celebration
11th December, Saturday 7.30pm: Carols in Curtain Square, bring a picnic!
19th December, Sunday 9 and 11am: Celebration Service - we celebrate Thrive kids groups and leaders of 2010
24th December, Friday 6-7pm: Kids Carols - all welcome!
25th December, Saturday 9.30am: Family Christmas service - all welcome!

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

St Jude's Family Camp, August 29-31

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Michael Collie, singing 'Jesus Superhero'!
On Saturday evening before dinner the Band played kids songs for about 45 minutes - it was fun to see all generations joining in the actions and raising the roof.
(Great band, too - thanks guys!)

Never too young (or old) to get into the actions for 'Jesus Superhero'!

Our first combined Camp for the 9am and 11am folk - we had a great time getting to know each other better, singing together, hearing from returned missionaries Michael and Elspeth Collie, and talking about future directions for St Jude's family ministry.

A reflective moment ....

The Youth ran a mad Quiz night - it was brilliant, with lots of crazy categories that involved every age group - here, tables are competing to see who remembers the most nursery rhymes! Congratulations to the folk at the nearest table, left of the picture!