Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Family Christmas Eve Service
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Family Advent Dinner: Wednesday, Dec. 1 @ 6pm.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
INITIATIVE – October BIG Idea for 1st-5th Grade
CSI
Nope, this doesn't stand for crime scene investigators, although they certainly have it. It doesn't stand for College of Southern Idaho, although students there (like anywhere) need it. Nor does it stand for Chi Sigma Iota, though surely an honor society that promotes academic and professional excellence in counseling would value it.
What is "it"? The ability to act on your own. The enterprising spirit needed to take that first step. The ingenuity to imagine how to solve a problem. SEEING what needs to be done and DOING it. In short, initiative.
Now, when you think of God's myriad virtues, does initiative come to mind? It should! What but a God-sized initiative could have seen the potential of a universe then created it? Who but someone God-sized is ingenious enough to craft each and every one of us by hand and make us each unique? Could someone other than God care enough to lean into our lives, see what needs to be done, and do it--for each one of us, at the same time, on an ongoing basis?
No doubt about it, God has God-sized initiative, and He wants to work initiative into us as well. It's a key ingredient for becoming the kind of people He wants us to be and for taking part in His big plan. Nehemiah's life story is a good example.
Here're some things we think kids need to understand and start putting into practice when it comes to initiative, and each one of these is modeled in Nehemiah's life:
When there's a job to be done, first you have to see it. Nehemiah recognized there was a problem in Jerusalem (Nehemiah 1).
When there's a job to be done, don't wait for someone else to do it. Nehemiah stepped up to the plate, even though it wasn't his "job" (Nehemiah 2).
When there are people in need, don't wait for someone else to help them. Nehemiah did something about other people's problems (Nehemiah 5).
When you've done what YOU can do, trust God to do what He can do. Nehemiah consistently did everything he knew to do and relied on God to do the rest (Nehemiah 6; 8).
So that's what CSI stands for: can see it. You can see it; you can do it. Can See It + Can Do It.
For more ideas about putting initiative into action, check out our brand new resource called CUE Box. CUE Box is filled with activities to help parents and kids interact with each other as they continue to learn about the month's virtue at home. To find out more or to order CUE Box, go to http://www.studio252.tv.
Oh, and there's a fifth week in October (when we'll be talking about initiative). We'll switch gears on that fifth week and talk about a "faith skill": how to talk about your faith.
By Melanie Williams. © 2010 The reThink Group * www.rethinkgroup.org * All rights reserved. Used by permission
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Community Fall Festival ’10 @ Arvada Covenant Church
Dress up and join us October 31st, 2:30-5:00 pm, at Arvada Covenant Church for our 2010 Community Fall Festival. Come experience a safe and fun alternative this Halloween. Trick or treat down Treat Street. Enjoy carnival style games in a family friendly environment along with many other surprises! We are throwing a huge party and we want you to come and have fun with us. Admission is free.
We are creating an exciting event for you to invite your neighbors, friends and co-workers to experience the fun of ACC. You can be involved and make this a huge success! First, invite your friends! Think of the people you see in your neighborhood with whom you want to be able to start talking about your relationship with God. Think of kids at your child’s school. How about the cashier at the grocery store, the woman who cuts your hair or the person that makes your fav. coffee drink each week? Invite them to be a part. Our vision is that you will have a great time with your family and with the families you bring that will lead to a moment, an open door, for you to talk about the most important relationship you have in life and the hope you have in life. All through a great time at a fun place.
There are several ways in which you, your family and friends can serve as we show God’s love to the world around us. We need people to run the 20+ carnival games we are organizing, people to greet and provide security, people to set up, and many people to help clean the building after the festival. You’ll have a blast serving with other people from ACC and seeing the joy on the faces of the kids and families!
2nd Annual Game Booth Decorating Contest – decorate the space around a game and win! Help add to the fun and festive environment of the Fall Festival.
Check out this list of ways to help and contact us today to let us know how you can be involved. Leave a comment and let us know how you can help or email seggers@arvadacovenant.org
Run a game booth – Need 30+ people A ton of fun!
Greeter/Security - Need 8 people per shift (two shifts) Create a welcoming and safe environment
Set-up and décor - Need 10 people Saturday 10/30
Clean-up – 10-12 people
Face Painting – need 2 to assist painter
Go-fer – 5 people “Go fer this, go fer that.” People that will help where needed.
Photo booth – 4 people Taking pictures and running digital picture set-up
Volunteer break room people to make sure the room stays somewhat clean and stocked w/food.
We hope to see you involved with the Community Fall Festival to create a wonderful time at Arvada Covenant Church!
Monday, August 23, 2010
Parenting with Love and Logic - Seminar
PARENTING WITH LOVE AND LOGIC®
Jim Fay and Dr. Charles Fay
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Join America's parenting experts®, Jim Fay and Dr. Charles Fay, for an entertaining day and learn easy-to-use techniques for parenting kids of all ages.
Location:
Arvada Covenant Church*
5555 Ward Road
Arvada, CO 80002
*This seminar is not an official activity of the Arvada Covenant Church.
Time:
Morning Session 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Afternoon Session 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Cost:
Only $30.00 per person per session
Putting the Fun Back Into Parenting
Morning Session 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Avoid un-winnable arguments and power-struggles
- Get your kids to do chores and other tasks without going to battle
- Help them learn from their poor decisions…so that they don't repeat them
- Get them ready for success in today’s complex world
- Stay sane in the process.
Love and Logic® for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Afternoon Session 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Put an end to bedtime battles
- Deal with whining, begging, tantrums and full-fledged melt-downs
- Help your tots learn from small mistakes so they don’t have to make life-threatening ones as teenagers
- How to discipline them without losing their love and respect.
Attend one session or both!
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Preschooler Promotion
Preschool age children promote to their new rooms September 12th, 2010. We promote the preschool kids that are downstairs once a year in September. Be sure to track with the birthdates listed on each room to find out which room is right for each child. We promote the children in each room together so that the room leaders and children have as much consistency as possible. Children don’t automatically change rooms when they have their birthday because we don’t have rooms for specific ages i.e. a 2 year old room, a 3 year room, etc. The kids that are in each room stay together, play together, learn together and move together.
Let us know if you have any questions or specific needs for your child.
Beginning September 12th:
Children born between October 1, 2007 and September 30, 2008 – Sunbeams Room C102
Children born between October 1, 2006 and September 30, 2007 – Bumblebees Room C103
Children born between October 1, 2005 and September 30 2006 – Giraffes Room C104
Feel free to contact John Mullis, Children’s Ministry Director, with any questions. 303.422.1235
Monday, July 12, 2010
Become a FAN on facebook
Are you a fan?
Become a fan of the Launch! Children’s Ministry on the Launch! facebook page. It’s a good way to stay in touch and get the latest and most real-time updates on what is going on in Launch!
Promotions in Launch! Kids moving up in 2010
Preschool age children promote to their new rooms September 12th, 2010. We promote the preschool kids that are downstairs once a year in September. Be sure to track with the birthdates listed on each room to find out which room is right for each child. We promote the children in each room together so that the room leaders and children have as much consistency as possible. Children don’t automatically change rooms when they have their birthday because we don’t have rooms for specific ages i.e. a 2 year old room, a 3 year room, etc. The kids that are in each room stay together, play together, learn together and move together. Let us know if you have any questions.
Current room assignments for preschoolers:
Nursery (upstairs) Children born after February 1, 2008. *Children born between 2/2 and 10/1, 2008 will move to the Sunbeams (C102) September 12, 2010
Sunbeams (C102) Children born between October 1, 2006 and February 1, 2008
Bumblebees (C103) Children born between October 1, 2005 and September 30, 2006
Giraffes (C104) Children born between October 1, 2004 and September 30, 2005 (this includes children that will be in Kindergarten this Fall.
Kindergarten - 5th graders promote to their new grade levels the Sunday after Kids' Camp each year (June 27, 2010). Kindergarteners are now 1st graders, 1st now 2nd, etc. 5th graders have moved up to Junior High Ministries (check out their FB page Arvada Covenant Junior High) During the summer, until September, the kids going into 5th grade are welcome to come to Launch, especially during the 10:45 service. Let us know if you have any Qs.
Summertime rooms for elementary children:
C110/111 Children that will be in 1st and 2nd grade during the 2010/2011 school year
Launch! Pad Children that will be in 3rd-5th grade during the 2010/2011 school year.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Simple Service + Serious Cause = Summer Serve!
Children’s Ministry volunteers at Arvada Covenant Church are the some of best volunteers in the world, and they have been giving their best to kids for 9 months. We love them and want to give them a rest so when they come back in the fall they’ll be refreshed and ready to love and teach kids for another year.
While our core team is resting during the summer, we still must to be able to teach the hundreds of children that show up each weekend. We can’t afford to take time off. For us to be able to continue teaching children about Jesus Christ, we need people to help by serving on the children’s team during the summer. We call it Summer Serve. You sign up and show up and make a huge difference with simple service for a serious cause. We’ll teach with you in a fun way this summer.
A Summer Serve leader:
· Studies a lesson provided in advance
· Shows up 25 minutes before the service.
· Greets children, sits with their group during a large group Bible and worship lesson, leads their group through some fun activities to make the lesson stick with the kids.
Summer Serve is a great experience and you can be a part of it! It’s all about loving kids through serving and making a difference in their lives.
We make Summer Serve EASY and FUN!
How? Anyone can do it during a weekend service June 6 – August 29. We’d like you to pick two pairs of back to back weekends or a whole month. Serve on your own, serve with your family, or serve with your small group. Just sign up, sit back and wait for a phone call from the children’s ministry team. It’s that easy. And it’s so important.
We have over 200 spots to fill for this summer so there is room for YOU.
You can sign up for Summer Serve by email or phone.
Email: seggers@arvadacovenant.org Phone: 303-422-1235 ext. 212
You can also sign up at the Children’s Info desk downstairs.
Simple Service + Serious Cause = Summer Serve!
Thanks for your support of children at Arvada Covenant Church.
The Children’s Ministry Team
Thursday, April 29, 2010
May Preschool Bottom Line – God Made Me!
We will spend the month of May equipping our preschoolers with the knowledge that God made them. Because He made them, they are special. They are special not because they can jump the farthest or run the fastest. They are special because God made them and loves them.
God made our bodies. God made us to do many things. God made us with a purpose. God even made us to praise Him. Our God is an AMAZING God who makes wonderful things. And, since God made us just the way we are, He loves EVERYTHING about us. Everything! He loves our messy hair. He loves our crooked noses. He loves our loud singing voices. He even loves our silly faces. God made us, and He loves us. Awesome thought, isn't it? It's almost overwhelming. God made ME! Wow. What a strong foundation to give our preschoolers. God made them, and that makes them special.
By Kathy Hill. © 2010 The reThink Group * www.rethinkgroup.org * All rights reserved. Used by permission.
May 2: I am special to God Psalm 139:13-15, Jeremiah 1:5
May 9: God made my body Genesis 1:26-27
May 16: God made me to do many things Psalm 41:1, 86:11
May 23: God made me with a purpose Jeremiah 29:11, Ephesians 2:10
May 30: God made me to praise Him. Psalm 1-2, 34:1
Patience – 1st-5th Grade BIG Idea for May
Chill Out
So that's what 252 Basics is all about in May:
Patience, which is waiting until later for what you want now.
Here's the lineup:
If you don't wait, it could cost you. Remember what Esau traded away for a bowl of soup because he let his stomach go to his head? (Genesis 25)
Don't get tired of doing the right thing. If only the Israelites had kept on following God instead of the crowd! (Exodus 19; 32)
Don't miss out because you think you can't wait. Have you ever thought about what Joshua and the Israelites would've missed if they hadn't followed God's marching orders? (Joshua 3; 6)
If you don't wait, it could hurt others. There are "gasoline girls" and there are "water boys." Which one are you? (Proverbs 15:18)
And for the fifth week, we'll depart from the norm and focus on a "faith skill," that of prayer:
Take prayer out of the box. Are you in or out of the box when it comes to prayer? (James 5:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:17; Romans 8:26)
By Melanie Williams. © 2010 The reThink Group * www.rethinkgroup.org * All rights reserved. Used by permission
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Find Us On Facebook
Look for us on Facebook. The page is called Arvada Covenant Launch Children’s Ministry.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Kid’s Camp 2010 – Cosmic City
Can children actually encounter God is a personal way and discover the richness of who he is? We answer with a resounding yes!
Few places inspire the awe and wonder of God more naturally than the heavens he created. So we’re launching our Voyagers in to space, where they’ll experience that awe and wonder for themselves. We’re creating a fun and fanciful floating space city where they can delight in discovering who God is and what he’s done for us.
Voyagers launch from Alpha Base and will visit the exciting Theater of the Galaxies, Asteroid Alley Games, Deeper Space Music, the Shooting Star Drive-in for snacks and make out of this world crafts in the Super Nova Super Mart.
Kids’ Camp blasts off June 21-25 from 9a.m.‘til Noon and is for children that are 5 years old through finishing 5th grade. The cost is $25 per child.
Registration begins mid-May. Stay tuned for details.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Honesty – 1st-5th Grade BIG Idea for March
The Web
The premise behind it is simple and ordinary; the science complex and intriguing. Rather like honesty itself.
On the one hand, honesty is simple.
It always involves a choice.
We choose to tell the truth or to lie.
Honesty is ordinary, too.
Because every one of us,
from Adam and Eve to you and I,
chooses to be honest or dishonest on a daily basis.
On the other hand, honesty (and therefore
dishonesty) is complex and intriguing.
You can be honest (or dishonest) in your words, actions, and attitudes.
You can be honest (or dishonest) in what you don't say or do, as well.
You can set out to lie, and
you can go along with someone else's lie.
And then there are the multitudes of motives for
two-faced, duplicitous, and deceptive dealings.
So simple, honesty, but not always easy! Else no one would weave him- or herself into a tangled web in the first place.
Which is why, come March, we'll be talking about honesty and some of the very practical reasons God teaches and guides us to be honest:
When you're not truthful, you hurt the people you should care about most. Joseph's brothers practiced so many forms of deceit in that whole sell-your-brother-as-a-slave episode you'll weave quite a web recounting them all. (Genesis 37; 45)
Lying to hurt someone else really hurts YOU. Haman's perfidious plot backfired on him. (Esther 3-5; 7)
Truthfulness builds friendships; dishonesty tears them down. Jesus gave even wee, little, fraudulent Zacchaeus a do-over. (Luke 19)
You can lie so much you forget what matters. Treacherous Judas forgot, or deceived himself, about what matters most. (Matthew 26; 27) Note that this week begins the Easter season and the Easter "story" in 252 Basics.
Honesty creates a safety net.
Honest thoughts, words, and actions weave together to
strengthen trusting, happy relationships with others and God.
Dishonesty creates a web.
Lies and deception weave a web that ensnares us,
tearing at the fabric of our relationships with others and God.
So, help kids be careful about what they weave.
By Melanie Williams. © 2010 The reThink Group * www.rethinkgroup.org * All rights reserved. Used by permission
Monday, February 1, 2010
Honor – 1st-5th Grade BIG IDEA for February
When was the last time you used the word honor in an everyday conversation with a regular Joe? Does it strike you as outmoded, a little archaic perhaps? For instance, when did you last slay a dragon from the back of your trusty white steed, lay your cloak over a puddle for a lady, bow in deference to others at court, or swear undying fealty to your king? (More on that later.) After all, that stuff was around in the Middle Ages.
On the other hand, that stuff has been around since the Middle Ages. What student hasn’t read of King Arthur (first written about in the 1130’s) or Don Quixote (published in 1605 and 1615)? Who among us hasn’t seen a Robin Hood movie (the first of which came out in the early 1920’s) or Shrek? If you’ve visited a museum and seen a suit of armor, haven’t you marveled at how small those guys were?
But, with all due respect, it wasn’t Geoffrey of Monmouth or Cervantes who invented honor. Nay, honor is older than, well, dirt. Noooo, it was God who created honor. Check out what David says about honor in Psalm 8:1–5 (NIV):
“O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise … When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.”
Can you read that and not be awestruck that the King of kings and Lord of lords, who deserves glory over all others, would esteem us, even a little? Yet He does. David’s life, in fact, is chock-full of honor-related examples and principles. Think back to what you know about David, like:
… his encounter with Goliath. God said, “Those who honor me I will honor” (1 Samuel 2:30, NIV). David honored God, and God honored David, even though he was the little brother, a mere boy, and overlooked at every turn. Honor those who are overlooked.
… his friendship with Jonathan. God says, “Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves” (Romans 12:10, NIrV). David honored Jonathan, certainly; but think how remarkable it was that Jonathan (the heir apparent to the throne) should honor David (who would eventually become king) more than himself. Honor others more than yourself.
… his turbulent and tragic relationship with his son Absalom. God says, “‘Honor your father and mother’—which is the first commandment with a promise—‘that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth’” (Ephesians 6:2-3, NIV). What a contrast Absalom is to Jonathan! Honor those who are over you.
… his unself-conscious worship of God: “I will celebrate before the Lord. I will become even more undignified than this” (2 Samuel 6:21–22, NIV). Honor God out LOUD.
So come February, we’re going to camp here, with David, Goliath, Jonathan, Absalom, and Michal, and examine some things God says about honor and what it looks like to live in honorable ways.
Now back to dragons and puddles. You may not have slain a dragon from the back of your trusty charger, but have you cheered the underdog or said thank you to the teenager taking your order at the drive-thru? You probably haven’t spread your cloak over a puddle for a lady, but have you held the door for one? You may not have bowed in deference to others at court or sworn loyalty to a king, but have you obeyed your parents without rolling your eyes or stood in heartfelt praise to honor THE King?
See, honor doesn’t live just in legends! Therefore, prithee don thine armour and thy cloak and henceforth seek to impart the ways of honour to thy probies thusly. Thy labour shalt not be for naught.
Watch the HONOR video on the video player at www.252basics.org
By Melanie Williams. ©2009 The reThink Group • www.rethinkgroup.org • All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Covenant Heights Winter Trailblazer Camp
February 19-21, 2010
GET Hooked
Matthew 4:19
Take a bunch of your Arvada Covenant Launch! friends to a weekend at Covenant Heights and get hooked on God’s word! You and your friends will have a boat load of fun with tubing, snow-shoeing, beach parties, broomball and more!
Winter Trailblazer is for students in 3rd-6th grade
Camp cost is $100
For more information and a printable registration form with all the information you need, go to http://www.covenantheights.org/Events/Winter_Trailblazer.htm
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