North Scottsdale UMC Children's Ministry

WELCOME to North Scottsdale U.M.C. kids website!
We are a family friendly United Methodist church in Scottsdale, AZ.

Sunday School Classes

NSUMC offers a children and youth Sunday School opportunity at 10:00 a.m. with traditional Sunday School. Our nursery is open for babies and toddlers at both our 8:30am and 10:00am services.

Godly Play

Our Sunday School teachers host a Godly Play worship experience for our children as part of their Sunday School classroom experience during our 10:00 a.m. service throughout the school year.

Creative Christians

We are blessed to offer a weekday after-school program for children ages 5-12 years old. This creative group meets on Fridays from 3:30-5:00 p.m.

North Scottsdale UMC home page link

Backpack Blessing Mission Project

Annually NSUMC hosts Blessing of the Backpack as the new school year begins. We offer a backpack tag to all of the children in the community. It's a celebration of a new school year and a fresh start. NSUMC also offers a backpack mission project. We ask all attendees to donate a backpack and supplies that in turn can be donated to a local community center that supports children and their families. Vista del Camino Center is located in south Scottsdale and they support the families who do not have the ability to supply these materials to their own children.

This year's Blessing of the Backpack event is scheduled over two day:

- Saturday, August 8th from 9a-12noon NSUMC will offer a drive-up SELF-SERVE station on the front patio next to the office door. The station will include a basket with assorted bags tags for your child. They may chose any style they like. If you are chooing to donate supplies, there will also be a bin for donations of back to school supplies for Vista del Camino. These two options will only be available from 9a-12noon on Saturday.

-Sunday, August 9th during our 10am ONLINE worship service our pastors will offer a blessing for the children, backpacks and all their personal devices that they will need for the upcoming school year.

NSUMC will also be offering an ONLINE DONATION OPTION . If you would prefer to make a financial contribution instead of shopping, we welcome that as well (and so does Vista del Camino)! That link remains open until August 17th.

Families helping families. That's what God's grace is all about!

You are invited to ZOOM Online Worship
EVERY Sunday @ 10am

Worship Service

Check out www.nsumc.com for the ZOOM link.

Virtual Sunday School Lessons

North Scottsdale United Methodist church will be offering Virtual Sunday School throughout the pandemic. Weekly, we will send our families the link to the lesson. Each link will offer your children a video of the scripture story and creative expressions to accompany the lesson. If you would like to check out a different lesson, we have nearly four dozen lessons uploaded for your convenience.
Here are the steps to log-on:

Type www.nsumckids.info into your browser
Place your curser over the MIND tab and you will see a drop-down
Slide your curser over “Sunday School Lessons for Godly Play” and you will see another drop down
The first drop down is “Godly Play Curriculum Map,” that page lists the dates and name of the weekly lessons.
All the other tabs below include lessons posted in alphabetical order. If you prefer a different lesson than what is scheduled, please help yourself to any other lesson of interest!

Thank you to our parents for all you are doing to keep
your children connected to church & God!
You are amazing!

FREE Resources

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