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   Happy New Year! - It's a New Year Celebration!
Happy New Year! is designed to be a celebration of a new church year! It sets a creative culinary context for stirring our hearts and minds to more fully appreciate God's presence and activity throughout the year. It invites us to think of the life and ministry of Jesus as we walk through a calendar year. The following outline provides a variety of entry points for accessing the various components of this program. It includes detailed overviews, activity descriptions and resource support for planning and coordinating the "Please Be Seated" Gathering Activities, 'Whatza Cookin'" Learning Centers and the "Stir Up A Celebration."

Click on the following titles to access individual files for each overview, activity description, pattern or participant sheet. (Click here to get a copy of the Happy New Year PDF page from the planning guide. You might also wish to use the outline below as a planning guide or checklist.)
 
   "Please Wait to Be Seated" Gathering Activities  - Overview
Resource Support: 
   "Please Wait to Be Seated" sign design
   Planning Grid
   "Special Guest" Check-in - Activity Description
   Church Year Wheel
   Reasons for the Seasons Party Planner
   "Happy New Year!" Party Pack logo
   Stirrin' Up a Celebration menu card
   Chef Hat name tags
   Stirrin' Spoon pattern sheet
   Stirrin' Spoon reference sheet
   Taster's Choice: A Sampling of Seasonal Sensations - Activity Description
   Symbols and Seasons game board
   Seasonal Sensation cards
   Taster's Choice reference sheet
   Happy New Year! coloring sheet
   A Recipe "De Colores de los Estaciones" (rainbow) finger gelatin
 
   Stirrin' Up A Celebration  - Overview 
Resource Support:
   Skit: "Whatza Cookin' Catering: At Your Service!"
   Lessons, Songs and Prayers reproducible sheet
   "Whatza Cookin' Catering" sign design
   “Whatza Cookin’” Chef Hat pattern
 
   Whatza Cookin' Centers  - Overview  
Resource Support:
   "Whatza Cookin'" sign design
   Church Year wheel
   Planning Grid
   Chef Constance's Special on Blue - Activity Description
   "Prayers for Stirrin' Hearts" sheet
   Reference sheet for Advent
   Chef Sven's Special on White - Activity Description
   Reference sheet for Christmas
   Reference sheet for Easter
   Heart pattern sheet
   Miss Merri Mary and Greg the Grocer's Special on Green - Activity Description
   Reference sheet for Epiphany
   Reference sheet for Pentecost
   Pattern for Candle Mat
   Ned the Cook's Special on Purple - Activity Description
   Reference sheet for Lent
   "Who Do You Say that I am?" Identity Card
   Bernie's Special on Black - Activity Description
   "Just to Think of the Cross" personal place card pattern
   Firecracker Fred's Special on Red - Activity Description
   Reference sheet for Pentecost
   Great Commission reference sheet
 

Acknowledgements: 
Writer/Editor: Miriam Campbell 
Contributing Writer: Jonette Knock 
Contributing Writer for the Liturgical Service "Stir It!" Carl and Doris Graesser 
Artist/Illustrator: Tom Pairan

 

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