Fourth, fifth and sixth graders this one is for you and your friends.  Meet at church and get some fun face time with your friends from all different school districts.  We’ll need a couple of parent chaperones.  Drivers will bring kidz home to their front doorstep after this event.  We’ll get pizza and drinks at the alley.  The address is AMF Bowling Center 3500 Eastbrook Lanes Blvd. Grand Rapids, if you want to meet us there.  Bring $5.00 for food.  Please sign-up at the KiDZ Kart in the Atrium at church.

Learn about Michigan Camp offerings for your KiDZ this summer.  Understand how our POST SCHOLARSHIP fund works at Central and talk with representatives from Cran Hill, Camp Geneva, SpringHill and Grace Youth Camps.  There will be a question and answer session beginning at 11:00 am.  Forms will be available for all of our camp options.  Get your church friends together and go to camp!!!

Join KiDZ Central Friends at Gymco for an evening of jumping fun and gymnastics.  Four year olds through sixth graders friends and family are welcome.  Parents may drop off their KiDZ or stay and play.  The address is  2306 Camelot Ridge Court SE off East Paris near 28th Street.  Parents must  sign a waiver for your child(ren).  A lite snack will be served.  Co-pay of $5.00 per child.  Thank you!

YOUTH AUCTION 2012 – To benefit Central’s senior high mission trip to Succotz, a small village near the western border of Belize, this June.  Join us at Custer Office Interiors (217 Grandville Ave SW, Downtown Grand Rapids) from 6:00-10:00PM on March 3rd, where you will enjoy a plenty of delicious Latin-American finger foods and refreshments, while you browse silent auction items and socialize.  Then stick around for our live auction, MC-ed by local-celebrity-auctioneer, Miranda!  It will be the most riotously FUN investment of both finances AND time you will make all year!  COME, and help us bridge the monetary gap, so that our team of students can go bridge the relational and spiritual gaps of this experience…and all in the Name of our God!

(Admission is $20/person, and includes one adult beverage and all the hors d’oeuvres you can eat.  Additional drink tickets may be purchased.  Pop, juice and water are included at no additional cost.)

Drop your kidz off at church Saturday, at 9:30 AM for daycare and lunch, then get to know other nursery moms during some  “mommy pampering”.  Moms will return to church by 1:00 PM.  For more information or to RSVP please call Children’s Ministry Team member Kristen Borgman 791-4177.

Fourth, fifth, sixth graders, friends and family should meet at the church at 4:30 PM to car pool a short distance to the Pando Sledding area just north of town.  Wear warm clothes and bring $5.00 for a stop at fast food.  We will return to church at 7:00 PM.  In the event that there is no snow, we will see a movie.  Please RSVP by signing up at the KiDZ Welcome Kart in the Atrium or call Mrs. Timmer 285.9137 so that we will have enough car space.

Families and Friends are invited to come to Wealthy Pool at 1961 Lake Drive in East Grand Rapids from 4:00–6:00 pm.  Supper of pizza, beverages and finger foods will be served in the activities room.  The Wealthy Pool which is kept at 80 degrees has a life guard on duty as well as many water toys.  It is suitable for swimmers and floaters.  Showers and changing rooms are on site.  Parents may either stay and play or drop off  their children and return.

Joyful Noise KiDZ Khorus will participate in the morning worship service and host refreshments in the Atrium.  All age KiDZ are welcome to sing.  Rehearsals are on Sunday mornings between 10:45–11:15 in the Garden of Eden Room and Wednesdays during Theater Kidz from 5–5:30 pm in Fellowship Hall.

Don a robe at 9:00 am and join us for warm-ups in the sanctuary.

Welcome Home! 

Join us for our classic worship service.  Nursery care is provided for infants through three years old.  Christmas centers are provided for children prekindergarten through second grade during worship in the Garden of Eden room downstairs.

This family oriented worship service begins at 4 pm and lasts about 45 minutes.  Carols are sung, the Bible is read and walk-on participation of children is welcome but not necessary.  (Live animals will be used in this service.)

A musically upbeat play presented on Fellowship Stage in Fellowship Hall by the talented children of Central Reformed Church who participate in                Joyful Noise KiDZ Chorus, Theater KiDZ, and You-Can-Do-It-ArtZ.  This Christmas Play will excite and delight an audience of all ages.  The performance is FREE.

An outdoor live Nativity begins at 3:00 pm with camel, donkey, sheep, costuming and children as participants.  Enjoy refresments, carolers and the JOyful Juggler indoors.  At 4:00 pm participate in the Family candlelit service: “Through the Eyes of a Child”.  Public Welcome.

Lunch of traditional foods, music, story telling, wooden shoe decorating, carriage rides, crafts and a special visit from St. Nichloas.  RSVP the number in your group by calling the church office 456-1773.

Make a donation to our VBS fund for a day of childcare.  Your kidz will enjoy Christmas shoe box filling for charity, fun with friends, movies and gift wrapping.  Sign-up with Mrs. Timmer or at the KiDZ Kiosk in the Atrium.

Sunday, October 30, come to church dressed as your favorite Bible character such as Sampson the strong man or David the shepherd boy.  There will be pumpkins to decorate and take home for display just in time for halloween.

UPSIDE DOWN 2011 4th-6th Grade JUNIORS’ RETREAT.  Don’t miss this amazing weekend!  This year at Juniors’, we’ll focus on the concepts in Philippians 2:5-11 and Mark 10:45, and explore the example of Christ and his upside down Kingdom through age appropriate teaching, fun interactive content, times for small group processing, and high energy praise and worship.

Sign up with Mrs. Timmer or at the KiDZ Kiosk in the Atrium.

Sunday morning Kidz Khorus participates at the children’s moment with songs and guest artist Mike Dean (Classical Harmonicist).  Khorus members should meet with Mrs.Timmer at 9 AM sharp to warm up in the sanctuary and get into robes.

GRAND RAPIDS CHOIROF MEN AND BOYS

SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012 | 4:00 P.M.

The Grand Rapids Choir of Men and Boysbegins it’s 22nd season this year (2011-2012). Specializing in sacred concerts andseasonal services, the choir ismodeled afterthe centuries old English Cathedral traditionof choirs ofmen and boys with a repertoireranging from the renaissance through the20th century. Such composers as Byrd, Tallisand Gibbons, Purcell, Handel, StanfordBritten and Tavener are just a few of thosein the repertoire of the Choir.The Choir of Men and Boys is comprisedof 20 plus soprano choristers between theages of seven and fourteen along with acontingent of 20 plus adults who sing thealto, tenor and bass parts. This year, tenof the adults singing with the choir arefathers of choristers which brings a ratherunique character to the group.Since 2011, the Choir has been under thedirection of Scott Bosscher who trainedin England as a choral scholar at WellsCathedral and is certified in the RoyalSchools of Music. Please join us to hear theunique sound of the Grand Rapids Choir ofMen and Boys as we close the 2011-2012season of the Barker Festival at CentralReformed Church.

CALVIN COMMUNITY SYMPHONY

SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2012 | 4:00 P.M.

The Calvin Community Symphony,formerly known as the Calvin AlumniOrchestra, was founded in 1994 by formermembers of Calvin’s student ensemblesto allow adult musicians to continue toserve the community by sharing performancesof classical orchestral literature. Theorchestra’s membership is open not onlyto Calvin alumni, but also to communitymusicians who share the orchestra’s goalsand the college’s mission.Under the direction of Robert Nordling,Professor of Music at Calvin College, theCCS plays a variety of symphonic literaturefrom all time periods of orchestral music.They feature soloists regularly and havecommissioned several new works. CCS alsopresents a Family Concert seriesfeaturing music of great composerswhich entertains children of all ages.The symphony’s members, who give freelyof their time and talent, come fromallwalksof life. All share a common loveof performing great orchestral literaturefrom composers past and present, andan abiding respect for Calvin’s educationalmission and performing arts tradition.

Scott Montgomery and Pam Smitter-Baker

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2011 | 8:00 P.M.

The brilliance of the trumpet blendedwith the majesty and colors of the organinspires the ensemble HornPipes! Twovirtuoso performers, Pamela Smitter-Baker(trumpeter) and Scott Montgomery(organist) lend their unique artistic voicesto create an exuberant new expressionfrom these traditional instruments.This duo presents the organ as a dynamicorchestral instrument and the trumpetas a uniquely expressive vocal instrument.HornPipes! is committed to the performanceof well-known classical and operaticrepertoire in addition to exploring a contemporaryrepertoire created specificallyfor this combination. Out of thesetwo familiar timbres HornPipes! continuallypropel their artistic vision into somethingnew yet familiar, enticing, and alwaysentertaining.Pamela Smitter-Baker is well known locallyand internationally as both a soloist and asymphonic trumpeter. Scott Montgomeryis the 2006 First Prize Winner in theAmerican Guild of Organists NationalYoung Artist Competition and is in highdemand as an engaging concert organist,presenter and recording artist.

JOHN AND GWEN VARINEAU

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2011 | 4:00 P.M.

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John and Gwen Varineau have been making music together for 26 years. John is known tomany as the Associate Conductor of the Grand Rapids Symphony for the past 26 years and Gwen is known as a pianist who accompanies instrumentalists at Calvin College, Cornerstone University and GVSU as well as area middle school and high school students. Althoughmany peoplewill recognize John’s name as the Associate Conductor of the GR Symphony, theymay not be aware that he is trained as a clarinetist and has performed with several orchestras in New England and elsewhere (Grand Rapids included). For this evening’s concertwe look forward to hearing JohnVarineau onClarinetmakingmusicwith hiswife Gwen Varineau on the piano.

If you have a child or children ranging in age from 0-3 years old who participates currently or would like to participate in the future in  Sunday morning nurseries here at Central Reformed Church, you are invited to join other moms with kidz the same age for a pampering mystery excursion created just for you.  Child care providers will care  for your children and provide them with a lunch while  Mom’s will be escorted away on a mystery excursion which includes lunch for them.

Take this opportunity to get to know the other mom’s who make use of the nurseries on Sunday mornings.

The fun begins at 9:30 am with kiDz begin dropped off at the KiDz Welcome Center in the beautiful Atrium at Central Reformed Church.  They will meet the big Kahuna and then travel downstairs to the Garden of Eden Room for games, stories, feasts crafts and songs.  Whether it is your first visit to Central or one of many, your kidz will depart for home enriched and enthused about meeting their teachers and reacquainting with old friends and new.  Aloha!

The fun begins at 9:30 AM with parents dropping their kidZ off at the Children’s Welcom Center in the beautiful Atrium at Central Reformed Church.  After meeting the Big “Kahuna” the kidZ will continue on downstairs to the Garden of Eden Room where they will participate in games, crafts, stories, feast and songs. Whether it is your child’s first visit to Central or one of many he or she will return home with confidence and enthusiasm for their leaders, old friends and new acquaintences.

Bible distributions to all 2nd and third grade students during the children’s moment.  Also recognition of four year olds move to downstairs Worship Centers.

Children, teachers and childcare attendants meet in the chapel at 9:00 AM.  Wear your KiDZCentral Tee shirt and a smile.

Everybody loves a parade!  Especially one that sends a meaningful message to children, parents and our country.  Ten years ago on this day the twin towers were struck and the rest is history.  The future however is ours.  Join Central Reformed Church as we remember the fallen innocent with appropriate honor and grace  and delight in the growth and excitement of generations to come.

Neighborhood Walk