Upcoming Changes and Needs

I am excited to tell you about the latest happenings in FirstLook, our preschool through kindergarten worship environment. 

We have experience tremendous growth over the past 6 weeks.  We were averaging 8-12 at each service and now we are averaging 15-20 at each service! That is exciting news!

With growth comes growing pains.  We need to bulk up our team and we want you! Right now we have 2 adults with our preschoolers in FirstLook, with the recent growth we feel it is in the best interest of your kids to make that 3 or 4 adults in the room at each service.  We would love to keep about a 4 or 5 kids to 1 adult ratio.

Now I know what you are saying, "I don't want to teach." The best news of this email is YOU WON'T HAVE TO TEACH.  We already have our main teachers in place (even me teaching some on video).
We would love to add you to our great team.  If you are interested, please let me know so we can bulk up our team starting January 1! (email Matt)

 

On January 8, we will move into the brand new KidQuest room! We are excited to have our own space and be able to worship there on Sundays in KidQuest and Wednesday evenings in The Challenge.

Other than dropping your child off in a different place, here are some MAJOR points that you need to know about this room switch.

• The New KidQuest room is room 205.
• We will open a new check-in counter upstairs in front of room 205 to be used by KidQuest and FirstLook families.
• We would ask you to start using the back stairway, next to the nursery, and checking in upstairs at the new counter. There will be a self-checkin station and a manned station. We would like to keep the downstairs foyer computer for our guests and visitors.
• With the growth rate we have had, we are also looking for some new small group leader to serve on the children's ministry team. Your job would simply be to ask a small group of kids pre-prepared questions about the Bible Story and lead and activity (game or craft)

The Challenge OCC Toy Drive!

 

   A few weeks ago, we challenged the kids to  come up with an idea of their own that they as a group could do to make a difference.  They came up with multiple ideas, voted on them and decided on a Toy Drive for our Operation Christmas Child Packing Party on November 5.

   The toy drive begins this week.  We wanted to let you know so you can help them with this. Please remember that these toys must be able to fit in a shoe box.  If you are unfamiliar with Operation Christmas Child, please go to their website www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/.

We look forward to seeing what our kids can do!

By the way, their challenge was to fill the OCC gift box twice!

The Challenge Starts Again!

That's right, we are starting The Challenge again tomorrow at 6:30!

Here is a chart with all the weeks memory verse to give your kids a jump start on memorizing!

September 7

Psalm 100:5

“For the Lord is good and His love endures forever: His faithfulness continues through all generations.”

September 14

Psalm 36:5-6

“Your love, Lord. Reaches to the heavens. Your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains. Your justice like the great deep.

September 21
 

Psalm 4:3

“Know that the Lord has set apart His faithful servant for Himself; the Lord hears when I call to Him.”

September 28
 

John 14:15

“If you love me, you will obey what I command.”

October 5
 

Psalm 34:4

“I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.”

October 12
 

Joel 2:13b

“Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.”

October 19
 

Titus 3:4-5

“But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.”

October 26

Proverbs 3:34

“He mocks proud mockers but shows favor to the humble and oppressed.”

November 2
 

1 John 1:9

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”

November 9

Exodus 9:16

“But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

November 16
 

The Challenge Party!

November Overview

Nursery and FirstLook

God made you, and He will take care of you. Could there be anything more comforting than that? Knowing that the Creator of the universe made little old me, and that He wants to take care of me. Wow! How amazing! That's what we're teaching our preschoolers this month. We want them to know that God made them, and that He cares about them - each and every one of them.

We want our preschoolers to finish this month knowing without a doubt that "My God will meet all your needs," (Philippians 4:19, NIrV). We want them to know that God cares about them even more than the birds of the air or the flowers of the field. We want them to know that He will provide for them when they are hungry and thirsty. He will provide people to care for them. God has a plan for their lives and will always, always, be there for them.

The Challenge -- November Bible Reading and Memory Verse Plan

Here is The Challenge November Bible Reading and Memory Verse Plan.  

In case you didn't get it at The Challenge, missed The Challenge, or lost it, here it is for you again.