Grace for Our Journey: Faith Mountain Baptist Fall Festival

Saturday, November 3rd, we held our Children's Fall Festival at Faith Mountain. We had both indoor and outdoor activities for the kids. Inside, we had crafts, cupcake walk, and pumpkin carving done by Brent while sharing the Gospel using the pumpkin for illustration.
Outside, we had musical hay bales (a variation of musical chairs), inflatables and a hay ride.

We gathered together in the sanctuary to begin, divided the kids into groups and off we went!

Brent shared the Gospel with each group of children as they came through his station. Using a pumpkin and carving while he talked (talk about multitasking!), he talked about when God comes into our lives, God Himself cleans out what is messy within us (thoughts, actions, habits that don't honor Jesus now that we are His) and gives us eyes and a heart for the people around us who don't know Jesus. Using the pumpkin, he also placed a candle inside the pumpkin and talked with the kids about how God as He changes us He will be seen working in our lives as that candle is seen shining out from within the pumpkin.
Matthew 5:14-16 says "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."

During craft time, the children made a fall picture frame. Or in Rebekah's case, she used the leaves as a fan. Thanks to Savanna for helping her during this event!

When we headed outside, our first station was Musical Hay Bales. This is like musical chairs except as hay bales are removed when the music stops, all the participants must fit on fewer and fewer hay bales. This goes all the way down to one hay bale for the entire group at the end.

Our whole group on one hay bale!

Next it was wagon ride time. This was a favorite of a lot of our groups.

Then on to the inflatables...

Finally we finished up at the cupcake walk and refreshment station. Rebekah was the first winner of the cupcake walk in the younger group. She proceeded to polish off her entire cupcake and the bottom of 2 other cupcakes (sorry, this mommy was only giving her one cupcake's worth of icing!) Rachel won a cupcake and then decided she wanted cotton candy instead. Yes, there were cupcakes, cotton candy, sno-cones and popcorn to choose from (or eat one of each!)