Budget 2015, Library and Children's Ideas

* Kids' class, "Praying in Color."  After reading and personally applying the principles described in the CNF book "Praying in Color," offer a class FOR KIDS on this topic.

• Gifts used: artistic creativity, teaching.  
• Universal mandates exercised: prayer, make disciples, let the little children come to me

Books, $15 each x 8 students? --> approx. $120, + art supplies = $150

* Pre-Service Stories. Before the service (or perhaps after service 1 Sunday a month), offer a story time for kids, where I simply read aloud the stories and picture books in the library.  

---------------> the 20 minutes before service, every week. begin when shofar blows.
---------------> Rebecca Weaver, Deb Widrick, Ralph Bornemann, Sr.
---------------> invest in pillows/cushions of some kind, stored in cupboard or bottom of                          closet.

• Gifts used: artistic creativity, hospitality
• Hobbies exercised: reading aloud, love of quality stories

Floor cushions, $62 for set of 4 (Amazon) x 3 (total 12 cushions) = $186 from A. Green fund

* Preschool Story Hour

$25/month x 9 months = $225

* Movie Night

$75

* Sound-proofing material on ceiling

$75/panel x 6 panels? = $450 from A. Green fund

* New materials, $200

* Reference Section improvements, $500 out of A. Green fund

$1,136 out of Andy Green fund

$650 2015 budget request

2014 Budget:

* Sermon activity bags

• Contents: outdated copies of Clubhouse & Clubhouse, Jr. magazine; coloring books; crayons and colored pencils; story books (Arch?); each in a canvas tote bag.

Bags, ($21 for 12 = $2/bag) + (6 bags x $25 contents budget) = $171 activity bags 

* New materials, up to $118