Calvary SLO Family Summer Events

Calvary SLO Parents,
I just wanted to thank everyone for making it to the parent meeting. I hope you were all as blessed as I was! Our family is looking forward to all the fun memories this summer. I will try to keep the blog updated with the most current news for families this summer, so please bookmark it and add it to your favorites!

Just wanted to invite everyone to our first summer event for families:
Tuesday Night June 15th we'll meet at Klondikes Pizza in Arroyo Grande Village for all-you-can-eat PIZZA!
$8.29 includes pizza, salad and garlic bread. Kids under 12 are .50c per year.
5:00-8:00 Hope to see you there!
For more info: klondikepizza.com 481-5288

New! Childrens Ministry at both services!

Can you believe we are all settled into out new building? We have already out grown the classrooms and will now be offering Childrens Ministry at the 11:00 service. I know this will be especially nice for those of you who also have kids in youth group, you can all go to one service now!

New Building, and in many ways, new CM!!!

Hi Parents!
Wanted to give everyone an update on how things are going with the Children's Ministry area of the new building. Our first project has been to prepare the 2-5th grade room floor. If you haven't dropped by to see it yet, i encourage you to do so soon. It will be the featured room where the black and white checkerboard squares with sparkles will light up the experience on stage! It is really coming together and will, Lord willing, have red hanging curtains, black ceiling, stage lighting, Calvary Buck Store, and more! We'll be able to do our parent/child gatherings there as well.

And James, how can I be involved??? I'm glad you asked! We are going to look to our families and CM Volunteers to provide the labor and decorating force! We want to transform the existing space into a small city where each classroom becomes a different mini-business if you will. We will be building some, painting a lot, adding a wall mural by a real pro, etc. We couldn't be more excited!!!

Please email Jocelyn: jocelyn@calvaryslo.com, or me: james@calvaryslo.com to get involved... Lord willing we'll start to paint and build in February '09!!!

God bless,
James

NEW 2nd - 5th CURRICULUM!

Hey parents and kids alike in our 2-3 and 4-5 grade classrooms, did ya hear the good news? We are implementing a brand new curriculum for Sundays, and we're really excited about it! It will be a large group format, where we break into small groups by grade on a weekly basis. Eventually, it will include family worship Sundays once a month too! It even has take home refrigerator cards that can be used to remember scripture and for family discussions around the table about what we are learning...

Check out the curriculum at the following website:

http://www.252basics.org/

take a look and be in prayer as we seek to implement what we believe will be a great new partnership between Sunday Children's Ministry, and your home of God-directed family time

God bless,
Pastor James :)

Check out these parenting resources!

Parenting Info available from the Gospel Light writers of some of our current curriculum. Activities, Bible Study Lessons, Parenting Issues and Tips from a Christian perspective... I found several pertinent articles/PDF files for Godly Fathering! Take some time to look around and I'm confident you'll find something practical and useful for raising your children!
Pastor James

to go to the site, cut and paste this web address:
http://www.raisingupspiritualchampions.com/archive.php

New Centralized Check in Procedure

Dear Parent’s,
We are now implementing our new “Centralized Check-In” for all the Children’s Ministry Classes. It’s easier for you, the children and the teachers. Here’s how it works;

CHECK IN
1) You’ll check-in your children, all ages (8th grade and under).
At the Children’s Ministry/ Youth Canopy.

2) You’ll be given a safety measure to match you to your child;

Nursery or Toddler Class
You’ll be given a label with a corresponding number to your child and diaper bag.*If your needed during service this number will appear on the overhead.
Pre school- 5th grade
Your child will be given a wristband with a number which corresponds to a number that tears off for you to keep.
6th-8th grade Vertical Connection
Your child can check themselves in at the Canopy and get their wristband, (no number stub) then head to youth group! Please pick up your Jr. Higher in the youth room.

DROP OFF
1) After checking in walk your child to class as usual.
2) Worship the Lord knowing your children are safe and are being taught God’s word at their level, by a team of awesome volunteers! All of our Children’s Ministry servants have been interviewed, screened, fingerprinted and trained.

PICK UP
1) Pick up your child in their classroom. Be sure to bring your label and/or wristband stub.(except Vertical Connection, Jr. High Youth Group) Children will not be released with out these.

NEW CHECK-IN PROCESS... PROCESSING

Thanks for your patience with the new check-in procedure. Every new system takes some fine-tuning, well, maybe a lot, but we really believe that it will allow us to be more prepared for any emergency that could develop. It also helps the teachers and their helpers not have to deal with the check in and thus, they'll be able to be more focused on running the classroom!

Jocelyn and I will always welcome any ideas you have on improving anything with the CM, so don't hesitate to leave feedback here, unless of course a complaint necessitates face to face or ear to ear attention :)

We are making progress, and special thanks to everyone who have been volunteering for the first time in the classrooms - you are definitely appreciated!
... and as always, continue to check back here for the latest updates and info.
God bless you!
Pastor James