Let's Love and Thank Our Teachers and Leaders

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

Promoting Children to the Next Level

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 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.

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.

Launch! under construction this summer? No Problem

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.

ARE YOU HUNGRY? Covenant Heights this summer

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.

Kids' Camp 2008 Custom Garage

Kids' Camp 2008 ACKC Volunteers

Be a part of the experience on the inside - join our great volunteer team. If you'd like to be involved, contact Sami Bookout @ 303.422.1235.

It's going to be a GREAT week for children at Arvada Covenant Church!

The Creator of All You Can See or Imagine

Who has scooped up the ocean in his two hands, or measured the sky between his thumb and little finger, Who has put all the earth’s dirt in one of his baskets, weighed each mountain and hill?

Who could ever have told God what to do or taught him his business?

What expert would he have gone to for advice, what school would he attend to learn justice? What god do you suppose might have taught him what he knows, showed him how things work?

Why, the nations are but a drop in a bucket, a mere smudge on a window. Watch him sweep up the islands like so much dust off the floor!

There aren’t enough trees in Lebanon nor enough animals in those vast forests to furnish adequate fuel and offerings for his worship.

All the nations add up to simply nothing before him— less than nothing is more like it. A minus.

So who even comes close to being like God? To whom or what can you compare him?

from Isaiah 40:12-17, The Message//Remix

Take some time and read this to your children. Talk it through. Discuss what the language means. Talk about the word pictures. Try substituting "Colorado" for Lebanon; the point is still the same: God is AMAZING! There is no one like our God. Not even close.

History Starts Now video

Ministry to children makes a difference in the lives of children at Arvada Covenant Church.  Each week children grow their knowledge and understanding of who God is and what it means to live a life of faith and live His way.  They also get a chance to be around leaders that are passionate about following Christ and teaching children the most important things of faith and, to be around other children that are learning the same things.  What we do every Sunday and every Wednesday matters in the life of children.

 

Great Music for Kids and Families

I think you'll really enjoy these contemporary child-targeted CDs.  Great music, lyrics and production.

Let us know what you think.

Check out the list over there on the right hand column  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Kids' Camp 2008 ACKC

Mark your calendars and reserve the dates:

June 23-27, 2008  9 a.m.- Noon each day.

The theme will be announced next week!

Now accepting applications and looking for the best leaders for the Coordinator positions.  If you'd like to be involved at this level, contact John Mullis - 303.422.1235.

It's going to be a GREAT week for children at Arvada Covenant Church!

Wednesday Night Oasis for Kids

Kids are welcomed and loved on Wednesday nights at Arvada Covenant Church.  We have three good environments for them to learn about living life God's way.

Loving and safe Nursery care is available for children under 4 upstairs in the Nursery

Fun games, crafts and Bible learning for children 4 years old - Kindergarten age downstairs in room C104.

Children in grades 1-5 gather in the Launch Pad for time with friends, action games, learning about who God is and worship and celebration.  We are continuing to understand how God worked in Joseph's life from Exodus 39-47

Rooms are open for check-in beginning at 6:15.  Children should be picked up at 8:00.  Rooms close at 8:10.

Various studies for adults available.  Visit www.arvadacovenant.org for more information.

Covenant Heights Winter Trailblazer Camp

February 8-10, 2008  Winter Trailblazer is a camp for students currently in grades 3-6.  The plans for this year are really exciting.  The theme is "The Flame" based on 1 Thessalonians 5:19 which reads, "Do not put out the Spirit's Fire."  Campers will be learning about igniting God's flame in their hearts.

Also featuring great winter activities, tubing, snowshoeing, worship, broomball and crafts!

Registration forms will be available at Arvada Covenant Church.  The cost is $95.  Covenant Heights will be offering pick-up and drop-off at the church.  If you have any questions, please contact the John Mullis at ACC or Covenant Heights directly at 970-586-2946.  www.covenantheights.org