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Reply to "Ways to do the "OPENING" or "GATHERING before the Workshops"

At our church, the kids in grade 1 - 4 meet in the Fellowship Hall for open/close. We spend the first 15 or so minutes with an opening. We have someone at the registration table and gets new kids signed in and with a group. Parents are instructed to sign in/out their children. We spend some time introducing the story (depending on the week), saying the memory verse, and singing a couple of songs. We also take offering which supports a child in Africa. Sometimes I will do a game with them or a little experiment, other times I have read the story from the bible and had images on the screen that match it. At the end of the workshop the kids return to the Fellowship Hall. Depending on if the pastor is done speaking we may sing another song, but usually say a prayer, and then are dismissed.
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