Tween Time: Fellowship and Service Projects for Preteens - Softcover

Wrede, James; Gregg, Leigh L.; Bushor, Mark; Ritchie Jr., James H.

9780687022540: Tween Time: Fellowship and Service Projects for Preteens

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0687022541 ISBN 13: 9780687022540

Publisher: Abingdon Press, 2003

Tween time helps 4th, 5th, and 6th graders be active in service and feel prepared to be part of the larger youth program.

Twelve programs cover such topics as:

Courage
Making a difference
Coping with Stress
Success and Competition
God's presence
Compassion

Twelve service projects include:

Bearable Burdens--providing Teddy Bears for children in distress
Healing Hearts--making healing hearts bags for a local hospital
Sack Lunches--delivering free sack lunches to impoverished neighborhoods
"Brief" Blessing--collecting packages of new underwear for a local agency (like a homeless shelter) to distribute
Care Packages--preparing and sending care packages to college freshmen
Neighbor to Neighbor--giving current newspapers and flowers to families in the neighborhood
Food for the Hungry--collecting and delivering food to a local food bank
Clean Generosity--delivering free laundry for homebound persons and others in need
Saying Thanks--delivering snacks and drinks to a fire department or police station
Baskets for Sharing--making gift baskets for homebound persons and others in need
Hospitality Check--discovering ways to make the church more hospitable to visitors
Ministry Fair--providing a "fair" where members of a congregation can see how preteens have been involved in ministry during the year

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About the Author:

Mark Bushor is associate pastor of education and youth at St. Mark United Methodist Church in Cleburne, Texas. He is the author of Mission Mania (published by Abingdon Press) and several articles.

Leigh L. Gregg is director of children and family ministries at Sierra Vista United Methodist Church in San Angelo, Texas. In addition, she serves as a local pastor assigned to Veribest United Methodist Church (a small rural congregation east of San Angelo). She writes curriculum for preteens and has had published numerous articles on teacher enrichment.

Dr. James H. Ritchie, Jr., a clergy member of the Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference. A native of Pittsburgh, PA Jim received his B.A. from Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio; his M.Div. from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio; and his Ed.D. in religious education from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Jim is a consultant and is called upon regularly to lead inter-generational experiences and to teach in various settings on the subjects of children and worship, music and education, curriculum and human sexuality education for children.

James Wrede has served as youth director and children's pastor in several churches and as director for communications and resources for the Northwest Texas Conference of The United Methodist Church. He has written preteen curriculum and lives in Belleville, Illinois.

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