This is our first Sunday so we are not sure if it will work yet, but we intend to open with prayer and maybe some praise songs while we take an offering. Then have a different story teller each week to tell the story. The first week we want to concentrate on finding the story and reading it from the Bible. The next week we want one of our members, who has a wonderful flannel board with peices from the whole bible in it to tell the story. The next week we may let the older kids do a skit or puppets or our clowns (we have a clown ministry) may tell the story, or we may have someone dress in character and tell the story. The last week (our rotations are 4 weeks long) we want the kids to tell us the story. While this is happening we will also take role- since we are a very small church we can do this while the kids are busy listening to the story. We'll see if this works well. If not we will make adjustments.
Teri