This ministry is responsible for educating the children from first grade through sixth grade. The ministry leader in this area is responsible for:
Recruiting and training Bible Class Coordinators
Working with the Bible Class Coordinators to make sure the Sunday AM and Wednesday PM Bible Classes have teachers
Working with the Bible Class coordinators to review and enhance the Bible Class curriculum and grade level objectives
Working with other ministry leaders to coordinate usage of our extremely limited classroom space
Preparation and administration of annual budget for the elementary grades
Addressing questions/issues from parents
Mission Statement (Preschool)
Build foundations for Christian Education through the Bible Class Curriculum. Prepare students for their entrance into the elementary Bible classes and the eventual Salvation once accountable. Foster a love for God, Jesus and others and encourage parent participation in continuous Christian Education.
Scriptural Support (Preschool)
DEUTERONOMY 6:6-9 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
DEUTERONOMY 31:12-13
Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, and that their children who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.
PSALM 78:2-7
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from our children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and wonders that he has done. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments
PROVERBS 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
EPHESIANS 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
2 TIMOTHY 3:14-16 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
Ministry Description (Preschool)
This ministry plays a vital role in the development in our youngest children. It encompasses the ages of newborn through 5 years old and includes responsibility of VBS and nursery care during worship.
Facilitate the educational needs of the students of our Preschool Bible Classes.
Facilitate the instructional needs of the teachers of the Preschool Bible Classes.
Encourage the development and implementation of a Children’s Bible Hour to be held weekly during the Sunday evening worship service.
Encourage increased adult participation in the teaching and development of our Preschool Bible Classes.
