WHAT TO EXPECT

 

Children's ministry is provided on Sunday during our 10 am worship gatherings for children newborn - 5th grade. 

As a whole, every activity and lesson is designed to foster in children a deep understanding of a few simple points:

  • They belong to God and His community

  • They are invited to grow to be more like Jesus

  • They can respond to the Holy Spirit’s leadings to serve others

 

OUR CLASSROOMS AND OUR CURRICULUM:

When you arrive on Sunday you’ll find the following classes for your children from newborn to preschool age:

Nursery - Newborns through 2.5 years are welcome to our nursery located in the North Wing.

Preschool - Children 2.5 years through 5 years not in Kindergarten are welcome to this classroom where we play, hear a Bible Story, complete a craft or activity related to the story and have snack. Children do not need to be potty trained to the attend the class. This classroom is located in the East Wing.

Children grades K - 4th grade attend the beginning of the worship gathering and are then invited to join our children’s ministry. All grades are dismissed and go to large group where they will play a game, have dedicated worship time, hear a Bible Story and pray. After large group, the children break out into small groups based on grade. Currently, we are offer to small groups: Kindergarten and 1st grade and 2nd - 4th grade. Large groups and small groups meet in the East Wing.

Our 5th graders are invited to join a special 5th - 8th grade class that meets during the sermon in our youth room. These students are exploring each Book of the Bible through interactive activities and dedicated videos.

Following the worship gathering, we ask that you go to your child’s classroom to talk with your child’s leader and pick-up your child.

 

OUR TEACHING PHILOSOPHY:

We want children to:

  • Understand themselves and how they relate to God

  • Learn the particulars of who God is and how He works actively in relationship

  • Learn about Jesus, who He is and how to be more like Him

  • Learn how to live for God in this world, empowered by the Holy Spirit

This happens through:

  • Experience/Formation lessons are experience-based in order to better form hearts, not just inform minds.

  • Guidance - Teachers are encouraged to facilitate spiritual conversations, allowing kids to ask questions to further growth in their faith. Parents are encouraged to talk with teachers before or after class about how their child is responding to the content – socially, emotionally, intellectually, spiritually, etc.

  • Response - Each week after teaching/discussing the Bible lesson, there is a small group time to act out /work out what they have learned. The medium varies from games to crafts to prayer.

 

OUR ILLNESS POLICY:

We ask that parents keep children out of children’s ministry who exhibit any of the following symptoms:

  • Any degree of fever within the last 24 hours

  • Diarrhea

  • Vomiting

  • Questionable body rash

  • Severe coughing

  • Eye discharge

  • Yellowish skin or eyes

  • Any communicable disease/lice

  • Green or yellow runny nose

  • Sore throat with fever and swollen glands

  • They have been on prescribed medication for an illness for less than 48 hours

For the protection of all involved, if a child exhibits these symptoms during their time in our care, parents will be asked to remove their child from the classroom.

 

Please contact Jody Lukowiak (Children's Ministry Pastor) at jody@cgnortheast.com if you have questions regarding our illness policy.