If you signed up for Kid's Camp before the t-shirts arrived, you can pick yours up at church now. Be sure to bring the coupon you received when you registered.
The Kids' Camp music CDs are still in production. Check back here for the latest on when they arrive.
We need your help.
Every week the volunteers at Launch, the children’s Ministry at Arvada Covenant Church, work to establish a community environment for meaningful interaction with God, leaders, truth, and friends.
Because they serve every week, Launch is a place where children feel welcomed, valued, and cared for while they Learn who Jesus is and how to follow Him.
We want to show our committed volunteers how much we appreciate them, so we need your help. This week (May 19) we are mailing home small note cards to use to encourage and thank our teachers. Please fill it out this week with words of encouragement and appreciation for each of your child’s Sunday School teachers (make sure to include their teacher’s name on the bottom of the card) and send it back in the self -addressed stamped envelope that comes with the card. Please send these back quickly so we can do this before the end of May.
We will then give the teachers all of their wonderful notes along with a picture of them with their students as a reminder of what an awesome job they do!
Thank you for your help with this! Our teachers are wonderful and we want to show them we appreciate them.
The Children’s Ministry Staff Team
Promotion Schedule for Children at Arvada Covenant Church
This year, all children finishing Kindergarten through 5th grade will promote to their new grade level rooms on June 29. This is the first Sunday after Kid's Camp 2008 so Kid's Camp will be the last event at ACC at the grade level they are just finishing.
At ACC, Preschool age children promote once a year at the beginning of September and stay in the same room until the following year. We don't promote children to the next age level room on their birthdays. Instead, we keep children of the same age together for the entire year. We do this for several reasons:
¨ Children have the consistency of remaining with the same teachers and classmates for a full year.
¨ Teachers have the consistency of the same group of children through the year. They can develop a group of consistent friends.
¨ Children stay with other children that are at a similar developmental stage and they grow together through the year.
¨ Preschool classrooms stay at a consistent size and age throughout the year.
¨ Children are promoted with their friends/peers at the same time - from the time they leave the nursery until they go to college.
The promotion schedule is based on a child’s age on October 1st. This date was chosen to match with the Jefferson County School District, which the majority of the children attending our church will attend.
In September of this year, children that turn 2 years old on or before October 1, 2008 will be in Room C102.
Children that turn 3 years old on or before October 1, 2008 will be in Room C103.
Children that turn 4 years old on or before October 1, 2008 will be in Room C104. This will be the pre-kindergarten room, for children that will be attending Kindergarten in 2009.
In February, 2009 we will allow children that that turn 2 between October 1, 2008 and February 1, 2009 to transfer into Room C102.
Welcome to summer? Really? It seems like we just finished celebrating the Christmas season! I hope you can make the time to relax and enjoy the summertime this year.
Around here at Launch! we really won’t be relaxing much. We want to make the most of every opportunity to reach, teach and touch children with the awesome life through Jesus Christ so we are going to take advantage of the 14 Sundays in June, July and August.
In July, a really great construction project will begin that will move some walls and adjust some spaces downstairs for the Launch! team to be able to serve children and families better. It is so great that our church is supporting this project that will improve our facility to help teach the Bible creatively, gather kids for celebration and worship and to create community with kids and leaders that are leading children into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
Throughout the summer, we'll be able to offer Launch! for children in the rooms that will not be touched during the remodeling project. We'll shuffle room assignments around a bit before the project gets underway and use all 4 of the preschool rooms, the Triangle Room (rooms C101, 107, 108) and room A104. We'll still have enough space to accommodate all of the kids, have a great time together and point them to belief and faith in Jesus Christ all summer long.
The goal is to have this project completed by the end of August. Stay tuned for more updates as we get closer to the July start date.
Located at 9000 feet in the heart of the Rocky Mountains and at the foot of majestic Longs Peak, Covenant Heights Camp and Retreat Center is just minutes from Rocky Mountain National Park and Estes Park, Colorado and is a ministry of the Evangelical Covenant Church.
Many kids from Arvada Covenant Church spend a week up at Covenant Heights during the summer enjoying all that the camp experience has to offer and many of them come back changed forever in the best ways possible. Check out their website for more information. Also, contact our Children's Ministry Director, John Mullis for more information.
