from Pastor Joe Perdue

Baptist Church Programs

Reach Out To Kids, Moms

To the Editor:

I am excited to tell our friends and neighbors about two new programs that First Baptist Church is offering to our community. Both will meet Sundays at 9 a.m. at 21 Elm Street in Cooperstown.

The first is “Spark: Activate Faith” for all kids through fifth grade. This is not your traditional, boring, or antiquated Sunday School. Each week we’ll learn something new about God using song, Bible stories, and friendship-building activities.

Activate Faith uses the best insights from faith leaders and children’s psychologists to help kids make their faith their own. Lively, age-appropriate activities – including games, crafts, and creative play –
accommodate various ways kids learn.

Each week we’ll send home a Family Page for parents to explore that week’s Bible story together as a family as the church partners with families to make disciples and assure our children that God loves them, we love them, and they are important to us.

While the kids have fun in Spark our new small group for moms will be meeting down the hall. The small group is led by moms and using “Mom to Mom” study guides. Mom to Mom is a Biblically based parenting program designed around the concept of women teaching and encouraging women.

It includes quality instruction in parenting, small group discussion, and the interaction of more experienced mothers with younger moms. Each session will be followed by a coffee hour before Sunday morning worship. Attendees are welcome to stay for worship or leave in time to make it to their own church.

Rev. JOSEPH PERDUE, Pastor
First Baptist Church, Cooperstown