Children’s Ministry

In November 2025 Bethlehem UMC and The Blessing Cart sponsored "Pack a Backpack for the Homeless" event. It was a great success. Children and their families from all over Union County came. We served Breakfast, had a scripture scavenger hunt, packed 113 bags for the homeless, played games and took home lots of gifts and supplies to keep in the car for handing out when you meet someone in need.

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Sunday School Ages 3-6(9:00-9:45am)

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Hanging of the Greens and Family Craft Night

November 30th we celebrated the first day of Advent and had a wonderful day of fellowship.

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Sunday School – Elementary ages 7-10 (9:00-9:45am)

Our Elementary Sunday School group is enjoying Faith & Science. We have completed so many experiments to date. This month - December - we will link the four attributes of Jesus during Advent to the Social Sciences. Matthew 24:36 & 44 tells us how we will not know when Jesus' return will be and how we should behave while we get ready. Our experiments will explore how we react to anticipation, preparation, following directions and trusting others.

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Children's Church - Ages 3-6(10:00-11:00am)

 They use the nursery room for Children’s Church time and that’s where they have a liturgical moment as well as snack and time to use what they learned in Sunday school through play and fellowship.

Children’s Church – Elementary ages 7-10 (10:00-11:00am)

“The word of God is an amazing book, full of stories of men and women on journeys toward God and his love for them.  These life-changing stories deserve to be told as creatively and enthusiastically as possible to help children grow closer to God and capture their imagination.  Object lessons demonstrate and cement truth in their minds and help  children focus on the truth you are trying to convey”. This introduction comes from the Book Top 50 Object Lessons Games & Activities created by Kathie R. Phillips.  We use this book along with several others to create our curriculum for worship in Children’s Church. See our monthly newsletter for weekly topics.

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Bethlehem Children/Youth Mission Alliance

The children have been busy being God’s hands in the “Blessing Cart” garden.  They have been praying for it, weeding/watering it, and feeding it.  So far they have had several harvests and the Blessing Cart has been blessed many times with their vegetables.

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