Serving Spots

Whether you enjoy holding babies, telling Bible Stories, helping on Wednesday night, playing games, helping people find classrooms for their children or even assisting with office work there is a place for you in the Launch! children's ministry at Arvada Covenant Church!  We want to help you find a spot where you can use your God-given gifts to invest in the lives of children.  Your first step is to let us know that you are interested in finding out more information.  Call John Mullis at 303.422.1235 or email jmullis@arvadacovenant.org

Spots

Serve on a Sunday as a Small Group Leader.  Spots are currently open in preschool as well as 3rd, 4th and 5th grade.  About 1.5 hours each Sunday.

Serve one day during the week behind the scenes in Operations to prepare the rooms for Sunday.  2 hours one day, every other week.

Join the programming team and teach the Bible in a creative way through creative communication, drama and tech support.  3-4 hours one Sunday a month.

Community Fall Festival is coming again soon!

Dress up and join us October 31^st, 6:00-8:30pm, at Arvada Covenant Church for our Community Fall Festival. Come experience a safe and fun alternative this Halloween. Have your child’s face painted. Trick or treat down Treat Street. Enjoy carnival style games in a family friendly environment along with many other surprises!

We are creating an exciting event for you to invite your neighbors, friends and coworkers to experience ACC. You can be involved and make this a huge success! First, invite your friends! There are several ways in which you, your family and friends can serve as we show God’s love to the world around us.

Opportunities to be involved:

Run a game booth

Greeter/Security

Set-up and décor

Clean-up

Face Painting

Go-fer

Photo booth

Planning and preparation

Wednesday Night Bible Memory

In Launch! children’s ministry, our desire is to walk alongside families enabling their child to experience the love of Christ, to know Jesus as their personal Savior and to become His disciple. Because knowing what God says is essential in that process, we want to support you and work with you to motivate and help your child memorize important verses and points from the Bible.

To help with this, we are developing Units of verses and facts for your child to memorize at home. Each Unit will have 5 or 6 items to memorize. If you want to take to participate, work on the verses with your child at home; after they say a verse or fact from memory for you, sign-off on the verse and have your child bring in the Unit paper on Wednesday night. We’ll sign-off on them after they say them for us. Then, once a child completes a Unit, we’ll give them the next unit, as well as a small, but fun, prize to show them that we are proud of the work they’ve put in. Every 2 weeks on Wednesday night we’ll introduce a new Unit; but, your child can work at the pace that is most comfortable for them. Unit 1 was distributed on Wednesday, September 10, so you can begin work as soon as you’d like.

We will always continue to teach kids about the importance of knowing what God says through the Bible so that we can support you in your efforts to lay a spiritual foundation which, in God’s timing will lead a child into a relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

Wednesday nights are also full of guaranteed fun games, Bible teaching and a chance to be with friends. It's a great hour and a half for kids to have fun learning to love life God's way in the middle of the week.

If you have any questions, please call me. I’d like to help. My office number is 303-422-1235.

Blessings,

John Mullis

Children’s Ministry Director

P.S. We’ll be taking all the 1st-5th grade Wednesday night Oasis kids on a fun field trip on November 19. We’ll let you know more details soon!

Preschool Promotion in Launch!

Promotion Schedule for Children at Arvada Covenant Church

At ACC, Preschool age children promote once a year at the beginning of September and stay in the same room until the following September. 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 1^st. 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. These are children that will start Kindergarten in 2011

Children that turn 3 years old on or before October 1, 2008 will be in Room C103. These children start Kindergarten in 2010.

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.

One special note - In February, 2009 we will allow children that that turn 2 between October 1, 2008 and February 1, 2009 to transfer into Room C102.

Knowledge

I love the curriculum we use as a tool to plug children into life through Christ. It's called 252 Basics and is published by the reTHink group. I love how they use the character traits, or virtues, of Christ to guide us in our growth. Here's the "Leaders Only" section for the Sunday, September 14:

This month we’ve been talking about (1) knowledge, which is discovering something new so you can be better at whatever you do. (2) God is perfect and omnipotent—the ultimate Authority on right and wrong, the ultimate Author of Scripture, the Book on wise choices. Jesus used His knowledge of Scripture (that He’d been studying since childhood) to make the wise choice. Because Jesus knew what God said, He was able to withstand the temptation to do wrong things. (3) God wants us to have that kind of knowledge too. So today, focus on helping kids understand that knowing what God says by reading the Bible will help them make wise choices and can even help them avoid or withstand unforeseen trouble. (4) When they know what God says, and follow through on it, it will make a difference in their lives—and in the lives of those around them.

That is great stuff that helps us stay focused on living life God's way.  Talk with you children about the importance of learning what God knows by reading the Bible.  Read and learn the Bible with your children.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not depend on your own understanding; seek His will in all you do and he will direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6.