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Family Advent Activities

Advent is the season when we prepare ourselves to receive God’s gift of Jesus. It is a time of “getting ready” for the celebration of Christmas. You are invited to use any of these activities to help you and your family prepare for celebrating Jesus’s birth.

Week 1: Hope

Read a Story: Little Mole Finds Hope
Grow Hope
Make Hot Cocoa
Light Your Candle and Pray

Week 2: Peace

Read a Story: Hiawatha and the Peacemaker
Fold a Dove
Make Corn Muffins
Light Your Candle and Pray

Week 3: Joy

Read a Story: Extra Yarn
Try Finger Knitting (tutorial starts at 2 min)
Pop some popcorn and talk about how you can share joy in your neighborhood this week
Light Your Candle and Pray

Week 4: Love

Read a Story: The Forever Tree
Color and Pray Using a Heart Mandala
Make energy bites and give to someone who needs to be reminded they are loved
Light Your Candle and Pray

Easter Egg Hunt

Easter Sunday, April 17

We welcome you back on Easter Sunday for an Easter Egg Hunt on our playground. We will gather near the fountain on the courtyard immediately following the 9:00 AM service. The hunt will begin at 10:00 AM. Bring your Easter baskets to collect some candy filled eggs.

We will gladly accept your donations of pre-filled Easter eggs or wrapped candy. You may drop off your donation in the church office by April 10^th. We also have empty reusable plastic eggs on the courtyard if you would like to pick some up to fill.

Engage HB – January

Engage HB is an opportunity to serve God by serving others. Join us on
the 1st Saturday of each month as we meet off campus for our projects.
Please wear your masks, work gloves and bring water to drink. If you would like to bring some gardening tools that is great, but not necessary.

This month’s service will be at Monarch Nature Trail on Saturday, January 2 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Enter at the Rancho Rd. entrance (near Spa Drive, where you can park)
Activities can include spreading mulch, weeding, watering, picking up trash and planting. You can visit their website to learn more about the trail.

To learn more about Engage HB, click here.

Do Not Be Afraid – Virtual Christmas Pageant

How will it work?

You will record your scene with your family or whoever says, “Yes! Let’s do it! This will be fun!” Nobody is too young or old.

What about costumes?

You can use what you have at home or borrow items from the church. No need to go out and buy anything.

When will the performance be?

All the recorded scenes will be put together and the pageant will air on our online services December 20^th.

Have Fun!

This well written script from Illustrated Ministries weaves together the joy of laughter with the Christmas story. Contact Marty (marty@cumchb.org) ASAP if you would like to participate.

Pray Pray Pray Messy Church

January 11, 5:00 PM

Through crafts, activities, a meal, and worship we’ll explore prayer together at Messy Church this Saturday. We’ll be studying Luke 18:1-8.

Luke 18: 1-8 – The Parable of the Persistent Widow (NIV)

18 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. ²He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. ³And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’

⁴“For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, ⁵yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”

⁶And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. ⁷And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? ⁸I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”