Saturday, July 5, 2008

Planet Kids Children's Ministry


The Planet Kids Mascots are Armstrong & GoGurt. Muppet style puppet figure versions were designed and constructed by Michele Acquin at Puppet Planet. (Puppet photos to come soon, Armstrong can be seen in the gallery at http://www.puppet-planet.com/)
Puppet Planet is honored to be a part of so many worthy projects worldwide where our puppets are used in a vareity of Noble works. Here is an example of some of our characters in action as described by Dean at the First United Methodist Church in Tarpon Springs Florida!

Planet Kids: Go everywhere in the world and tell the Good News to everyone. Mark 16:15

Planet Kids is the children’s ministry at First United Methodist Church of Tarpon Springs, Florida. Our theme throughout is a space theme and our verse, Mark 16:15 is our reminder to be focused on reaching out to everyone on this planet with the love of Jesus.

Planet Kids is about training and equipping kids to do ministry. On Wednesday nights we have Space Camp for all ages. On Sunday’s we have Rock-It Worship (kid’s church) up in the Launch Pad during our 9:15 service and during our 11:00 service we have Blast-Off classes for all ages.

Mission Control is our Tech. Team that consists of 5th graders that are trained by adults to run our sound-lighting-and-power point. Planet Shakers is our kid’s ministry team that is made up of 3rd grade on up. The meet every Wednesday night during Space Camp and consist of kids who have chosen to go a little deeper in their walk with God. They are trained to do ministry with other kids and are our primary kid source for doing outreach and mission trips.

Planet Works is our Worship Arts ministry for all ages which consists of worship flags, puppets, special effects, sword of the spirit, worship sign language, tubular worship, drama, and much more.

Rocketeers are what we call our volunteers who serve in Planet Kids throughout the week.
Summer Trek is the name given to our summer season which consists of Planet Outreach (kid’s mission trips), kid’s camp, Kidz Quest, The 5th Grade Farewell Blast-Off, Operation Backpack and much more.

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