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We're gonna begin, let's, let me pray for us and then we'll start. 00:00:09.200 |
My goal is to get you out of here while it's still two something. 00:00:14.560 |
Okay, hopefully before the big hand hits the nine, but we'll see, all right? 00:00:23.240 |
Lord, we thank you for just putting us together, not just in our small family units, but collectively 00:00:30.880 |
at a church together where we can sharpen each other, where we can really grow together. 00:00:37.040 |
And it does take a village and we thank you for putting us together in this village so 00:00:43.040 |
that we can really help each other raise our children up in the fear of the Lord. 00:00:47.360 |
We pray for your help today, that this would be a smooth meeting, that all the parents 00:00:51.620 |
would really be at peace knowing that as a church we really do wanna see their kids grow 00:01:00.400 |
in their faith and to bring you glory and honor in their lives. 00:01:04.160 |
And that as a church, education department, that we're working alongside them to, just 00:01:14.680 |
So we thank you and pray these things in Jesus' name. 00:01:18.920 |
So this is our first ever all education department, I guess, parents meeting. 00:01:24.320 |
We're gonna keep doing it this way as we get bigger. 00:01:35.280 |
Okay, so this is just a little bit of a structure, just to show you what things look like. 00:01:42.080 |
Our family ministry, it's kind of broken up into the family ministry and the SO department. 00:01:52.280 |
I came up with that in 2002 and then I brought it to Berean in 2005 and then I came back 00:02:01.340 |
So it has since evolved to seeds, vines, sprouts, saplings, et cetera, et cetera. 00:02:08.300 |
But students of the word is the moniker and the vine is our youth ministry. 00:02:17.920 |
So our sixth graders are actually staying behind. 00:02:28.420 |
And then included in this, we have our awana and events and child safety. 00:02:33.360 |
So just so that there's a clarity in your heads as to what this is. 00:02:37.680 |
And I feel like the SO is appropriate because we really don't know how many of our kids 00:02:43.120 |
in the education department really have a relationship with Christ. 00:02:47.200 |
And that is not something that is easy to discern at this age. 00:02:51.000 |
But most people who come to faith, come to faith before they hit 14. 00:02:55.400 |
So we are praying alongside you and investing alongside you that in God's time fruit will 00:03:09.280 |
And the ones in the red are the ones who are serving with us on staff for the first time. 00:03:17.720 |
Sprouts is our Sunday school children's ministry. 00:03:25.760 |
Now what we've decided with this change with Pastor Mark, switch me and Pastor Mark switch 00:03:34.680 |
We brought all the education department under my care. 00:03:39.480 |
And we have since decided to do our own Bible study. 00:03:46.360 |
And we're going to be doing that in the Philippines on Tuesday nights. 00:03:50.160 |
And so just sharing with you what our Bible study looks like. 00:04:01.720 |
And normally if you guys are in your home groups or here on Wednesday, after the teaching 00:04:08.640 |
With our teachers, everyone breaks up into departments. 00:04:11.480 |
And because we're also studying Philippians with your kids, it gives our teachers to contextualize 00:04:21.080 |
Obviously with seeds, it's hard to do any kind of inductive anything. 00:04:24.440 |
So we're keeping the seeds as it's been going. 00:04:27.880 |
And it's, we don't need to touch the curriculum per se for the seeds. 00:04:34.080 |
So but with every other group from kindergarten all the way up to seniors in high school and 00:04:39.960 |
even the college ministry, we're all on Philippians. 00:04:43.540 |
And so this is also added motivation for you guys to review with your children. 00:04:50.380 |
And every Sunday morning, our teachers are all going to get together in the Sprouts room 00:04:58.720 |
And if there are any needs that come up, we will pray together for those children and 00:05:05.760 |
So please, do not hesitate to shoot prayer requests to us. 00:05:09.920 |
We will pray for them in the event that you're okay with it being private or public. 00:05:16.040 |
So the Philippians curriculum for the youth group and the elementary, the vine and the 00:05:21.320 |
sprouts, everyone's going to get a worksheet sent home. 00:05:27.320 |
And then the worksheet is going to usually be about four pages, including discussion 00:05:31.480 |
questions and including study notes and including memory verse. 00:05:38.000 |
Now, the worksheets are tailored toward high school and junior high kids. 00:05:44.040 |
So if your first grader gets a worksheet that's made for high school, junior high kids, obviously 00:05:50.800 |
But the reason we're doing that is because I can't make 12 sets of worksheets. 00:05:57.640 |
And as a parent, you get to see it and then work through that with your child. 00:06:03.720 |
And so we're always going to be about two, three weeks behind the church, the adult church 00:06:13.300 |
And then you can review it with your children. 00:06:16.160 |
So we are trying to unify our entire education department. 00:06:22.680 |
Without any new families, let's say we don't bring in another new person in our church, 00:06:28.880 |
our youth group is going to be about 70 in about five years. 00:06:33.040 |
Our children's ministry will be about 160 in five years. 00:06:37.480 |
And depending on how productive or how unproductive you guys are and how people inbreed and stuff, 00:06:51.200 |
I'm planning for the next five and then thinking ahead to the next ten. 00:06:58.000 |
Some of you guys might be thinking, wait, we have 20 youth group kids, but we have eight 00:07:04.560 |
Because if we add another 30 youth group kids, our teachers are ready to take that on. 00:07:09.880 |
So that's without any new families coming in. 00:07:13.120 |
So one thing that we do ask for is there's going to be a lot of unorganized stuff. 00:07:19.820 |
Because we're trying to prep for the next five to ten. 00:07:22.680 |
So one, if you're like, well, this is so unorganized, you can complain to me. 00:07:29.400 |
And then I'll just pray sanctification on your life. 00:07:36.480 |
And what I don't want are most of our children's ministry, youth group department, teachers 00:07:43.920 |
I would rather have us as families help families. 00:07:47.900 |
So as a family unit, if you have a desire to serve in the education department, please 00:07:56.280 |
But our desire is for it to be the families leading our education department. 00:08:05.600 |
Because you guys are like, I need to spend time with the Lord. 00:08:12.240 |
Rest comes from doing and serving in a way that rekindles the why in your life. 00:08:18.620 |
So the worksheets, fourth grade and up, we'll be doing those, the worksheets in class on 00:08:24.860 |
K through third, the worksheets are going home with you. 00:08:28.620 |
And I'm going to be putting them up on the family ministry page. 00:08:37.320 |
But this is not meant for the kid to do this for homework. 00:08:42.220 |
It's for you to see what we're doing as an education department and then tailor digesting 00:08:49.280 |
And the seeds, it's going to continue with how it's done. 00:08:53.300 |
And we're going to get to that when we introduce each department. 00:08:57.060 |
And as of September 1st, I'm going to be the pastor overseeing the youth ministry. 00:09:03.440 |
So the children's ministry, I've been preaching to them for about a year's time. 00:09:07.360 |
But the teachers are now going to rotate through the children's ministry. 00:09:11.680 |
And I'm moving to do the youth on Fridays and Sundays. 00:09:15.160 |
And as the youth teachers have shared or the parents have shared, I do have big shoes to 00:09:20.400 |
Pastor Mark really did a good job ministering to those children. 00:09:25.580 |
And so this is what our youth group will look like on Friday nights. 00:09:34.960 |
So the children will be able to know what's where in the Bible in a way that's easy to 00:09:40.840 |
So we'll start with Bible and then Old Testament survey and then New Testament survey in a 00:09:45.680 |
way where they'll get to know what each of the books of the Bible is about and then try 00:09:51.200 |
to help them navigate through just the whole of Scripture so they could inductively study 00:10:05.520 |
And then when we have praise and prayer, we're taking a break because we don't want to get 00:10:10.280 |
So Philippians is what we'll be doing on Sunday. 00:10:12.280 |
So for you, you should know what your kids are learning that Sunday because you will 00:10:17.560 |
have prepared it at home on your own two weeks prior. 00:10:21.520 |
So this is an encouragement for you to be more involved with your child's spiritual 00:10:28.880 |
So it's just like let's maximize what we're already at. 00:10:32.720 |
So our boys are going to be broken up this way. 00:10:36.040 |
And I actually have the teachers stand here because we do have some new families. 00:10:44.760 |
Amber's in, I think she's, there's a conference going on and she's there. 00:10:54.720 |
So Ryan Chang right there in the burgundy, he's going to be the teacher and small group 00:11:03.560 |
Matt Yee, he was one of the reasons we started children's ministry. 00:11:08.960 |
So he was in like the second grade when he came to Berean and I had him then. 00:11:12.880 |
So he was our fourth grade youth group student because we had fourth to seniors and three-year-olds 00:11:19.020 |
So our church was even more chaotic then, believe it or not, our education department. 00:11:23.160 |
But Matt is a product of the labor, the baton passing labor. 00:11:31.020 |
And now he's full circle and he's going to influence either positively or negatively 00:11:44.840 |
So she's going to be taking Faith, Hope, Pauline, and Priscilla. 00:11:48.720 |
Sam Ho, who you guys know, but she's not here. 00:11:54.760 |
Kate, who's Ryan's wife, will be Amy Charity and Mary Mobley's small group leader Sunday 00:12:02.820 |
And then Amber, who is one of our most recent college graduates, she'll have Audrey and 00:12:09.600 |
And this is a pretty good ratio, but any new students that come in, we have more than enough 00:12:18.100 |
just love and energy and space to cater to them. 00:12:22.480 |
So please pray over them, youth group teachers. 00:12:26.620 |
So every Friday night they're going to be here ministering to your children. 00:12:33.300 |
Okay, I'm going to ask you guys to take a seat. 00:12:42.660 |
And I'll go through this relatively quickly because there are some detailed things that 00:12:46.500 |
we do need to talk up in terms of safety and stuff like that toward the end. 00:12:52.140 |
I don't know if you guys can see it clearly, but we have 13 staff in the Sprouts department, 00:13:04.300 |
And then the class breakdowns, can I have you guys come up, the teachers? 00:13:08.580 |
Because like I said, we do have a few new families here so that they know who's who. 00:13:23.660 |
So my philosophy is the more people doing less, the better. 00:13:31.260 |
So we have a lot of teachers and so that the teachers take turns really preparing the lessons 00:13:37.220 |
and there is a lot of love and care that goes into individual students. 00:13:42.960 |
And we do have probably, there's going to be about 50 to 60 kids just in September. 00:13:48.360 |
But kindergarten, the kindergarten students, Mara's done a great job this past year. 00:13:54.540 |
So Mara, Chris, and then Nick Yu is going to be helping with the kindergarten students. 00:14:00.860 |
The first graders, as you guys can see there. 00:14:03.260 |
So if your child is going to be a first grader in the fall, Josh, just raise your hands. 00:14:10.860 |
Kiani, John Yang, and Gloria who's not here, they're going to be the ones taking care of 00:14:16.940 |
Second grade students, Joe and Michelle, these two, they're going to be the ones in charge 00:14:23.380 |
Third and fourth grade, it's a combined class. 00:14:25.460 |
Melissa Wong, who's been here, she is now the longest tenured Bereans teacher. 00:14:43.820 |
And then Stephen Mose is also going to be doing third and fourth grade. 00:14:51.700 |
And Chris are going to be with the oldest children. 00:14:59.380 |
They're going to be the ones who've loved on your children. 00:15:07.780 |
So they're going to be doing the children's ministry. 00:15:16.700 |
So this is what Sunday school looks like for the children's ministry. 00:15:20.080 |
And I will upload the PowerPoint to the Berean Family Facebook page. 00:15:25.660 |
So you guys can just access it and look it over on your own. 00:15:36.300 |
And I do want to emphasize because we do have a number of families coming at 1130, 1140 00:15:47.900 |
And you guys know that the service starts at 1115. 00:15:49.900 |
And Pastor Peter always says, "Your faith to the next generation is caught more than 00:15:56.540 |
Meaning, they're not going to always listen to what you say, but they're going to observe 00:16:01.140 |
what you do and pick up what the values and the priorities are in your family by that. 00:16:06.660 |
So if your family is regularly coming at 1130, that means the praise time for your family 00:16:12.140 |
indirectly gets communicated as not that important. 00:16:16.020 |
So if you are coming here for yourself at 1115, you need to check your kids in by 1105. 00:16:23.060 |
And just another, I mean, this is the only opportunity I have. 00:16:27.100 |
But like we do have parents outside hanging out 1120, and the kids can hear the praise 00:16:32.540 |
starting and the parents chatting and giggling in the back. 00:16:40.920 |
And so that's something just as an encouragement, what you value is caught by your kids rather 00:16:48.940 |
And so my encouragement is help them prepare their hearts for worship to understand that 00:17:05.900 |
1115, so there's a 20-minute, usually a 15-minute sermon. 00:17:10.700 |
And then there's an activity or an application with the class, memory verses. 00:17:14.860 |
So they've broken up into their Bible study classes. 00:17:19.180 |
And then there's the "Because He Lives" at 1245. 00:17:22.300 |
And so the parents, if the Sunday's done at like 1230, and just because you're socially 00:17:30.220 |
like a little bit like, "I don't want to hang out with people," don't come and grab your 00:17:41.900 |
And then we do have a sponsor child in our Sprouts. 00:17:45.140 |
The kids are asked to bring a dollar every month. 00:17:53.100 |
They have to somehow earn it so that they understand, "I am doing this for this person 00:18:03.540 |
So I'm going to share with your children what situation, like what his living situation 00:18:13.060 |
You will get email reminder, little message reminders just to send a dollar with your 00:18:21.500 |
Like, some parents are like, "You know, I don't want to think that far. 00:18:27.140 |
We want your child to learn every month what it means to intentionally pray for and take 00:18:36.500 |
care of a child that is not necessarily related to them. 00:18:41.860 |
I'm going to give you guys an opportunity to ask questions at the end. 00:18:46.140 |
Right now I'm going to ask Jenny Kim to come up and share about the seeds. 00:19:13.940 |
For those who don't know, some people call me Jenni at Berean. 00:19:17.980 |
I'm here to just present on behalf of our seeds. 00:19:24.040 |
So as you guys can see up here on the screen, our class sizes are getting much bigger. 00:19:31.460 |
By last year, I mean this school year, we're projected to end at the end of August with 00:19:39.860 |
Every year since we've had our ministry, it's grown about 10 to 15 students. 00:19:49.380 |
Because I know a lot of you guys are having your seconds or your thirds or more. 00:20:01.260 |
Now when you see the class D and E, I know that'll be a little bit confusing. 00:20:05.340 |
What that is talking about is really everything that's in class C. But we call it D and E 00:20:13.140 |
And so that you know the class sizes, we do have newcomers coming every single week. 00:20:18.820 |
So just anticipate that that number will continue to grow over time. 00:20:28.980 |
So with our growing number, obviously we went ahead and we added new teachers into our group. 00:20:34.460 |
For those of you who don't know the teachers by name, they're all up there for you. 00:20:39.020 |
And what I'm doing is I used to be in class C with the other leaders, but I'm being transitioned 00:20:44.820 |
to class B because now we need to class, we need to split class B between girls and boys. 00:20:50.880 |
Not so much for first service because first service we don't have a lot of students coming 00:21:00.420 |
Because they're transitioning from a monthly lesson that they learn every single week of 00:21:03.900 |
that month in class C to having a new lesson, a new memory verse every single week. 00:21:09.380 |
So that can be a really big transition for the kids. 00:21:12.500 |
And so we want to give them a little more focus, a little more attention when they're 00:21:15.340 |
in class B before they get to class C. I'm sorry, class A. So you know the breakdown. 00:21:20.480 |
What we cover in class C is we kind of go through the Bible. 00:21:33.620 |
So we go over that monthly throughout the year. 00:21:38.060 |
We go over Old Testament once they get into class B. And then in class A, they go over 00:21:47.020 |
So with all of our teachers, because now we're at 11, right? 00:21:51.620 |
We also have a host of responsibilities that we've split up between us. 00:21:57.100 |
Obviously, as you know, Sarah is our head honcho. 00:21:58.800 |
She does an excellent job with ministry, with the ministry. 00:22:14.540 |
So we monitor the schedule, the rotation, all that. 00:22:16.820 |
Make sure everyone's, you know, with all the commitments that we've made in the year that 00:22:23.260 |
Newcomer relations, since we're having a huge surge of newcomers, we've needed more focus 00:22:30.180 |
So, praise, obviously, you guys see the fruit of that through the YouTube channel. 00:22:36.940 |
They handle the newsletter, any parent forums, things like that that we need to get out to 00:22:42.020 |
And prayer for your little ones is handled by Crystal. 00:22:46.820 |
So this is the schedule for both of our services. 00:22:53.940 |
I know most of you are pretty accustomed to the breakdown. 00:22:59.500 |
So if you guys are, you know, the old timers, all right? 00:23:01.740 |
So you guys kind of have already got this down pat. 00:23:04.060 |
But just so you know kind of how that's broken down. 00:23:08.860 |
And we just have some important reminders that we want to make sure that we let everybody 00:23:14.060 |
First is that with communication, we always use our Facebook page. 00:23:16.260 |
So please make sure that you're checking that regularly. 00:23:19.140 |
If there's any kind of notifications that come to you, make sure that you do that. 00:23:22.020 |
I know some of you do not have Facebook, and that's completely fine. 00:23:25.620 |
If you don't and you didn't know about this, that we regularly use our Facebook page, just 00:23:30.940 |
let me know so that we can add you into the emailing list. 00:23:37.580 |
This is not obviously mandated for our parents. 00:23:40.100 |
But I've seen parents attend our safety training, and they're really pleased with what we've 00:23:44.420 |
had, you know, put in place for the safety of their kids. 00:23:48.180 |
So we do highly encourage our parents to go ahead and take safety training if you guys 00:23:53.460 |
As far as reviewing lessons and memory verses, I know this is something that we've touched 00:23:56.920 |
upon a lot in the past with a lot of our parents that have been, you know, coming to SEADS 00:24:03.100 |
But obviously for us, you know, our philosophy is that the teaching starts at home, and we're 00:24:07.660 |
here as a supplemental resource to reinforce those lessons that you guys are constantly 00:24:11.820 |
reviewing and, you know, going over with your kids. 00:24:15.780 |
So we just want to encourage parents, you know, as much as you can, please try to take 00:24:20.140 |
time to review the memory verse, make sure that you try to explain in your own way. 00:24:24.140 |
Because sometimes when it comes from the teacher, it's not the same as when it comes from mom 00:24:28.900 |
You guys know your kids the best, so you can explain it the best. 00:24:32.380 |
And so it's really helpful in that way to partner in that effort. 00:24:37.460 |
We also want to talk about on the next slide� is there a slide? 00:24:54.580 |
I know some parents don't know, but we do ask that parents pack snacks for their kids 00:24:59.140 |
every week for SEADS so that we can go ahead and give it to them during the snack time. 00:25:06.460 |
If you guys said snacks, okay, we give them what we have in our SEADS office. 00:25:11.020 |
But we have that for any families that might have forgotten that week. 00:25:13.620 |
You know, it was crazy in the morning, right? 00:25:19.100 |
We'll make sure your kid does not go hungry, all right? 00:25:22.780 |
But if you guys could pack that, that would be great. 00:25:25.620 |
The other thing we always tell parents is no peanuts, please. 00:25:28.500 |
We have some kids that have really severe allergies. 00:25:31.740 |
We wouldn't want to have to take out an EpiPen or something. 00:25:37.180 |
So if you guys could maybe, you know, stay away from the peanuts, that would be great. 00:25:44.380 |
If you guys could make sure you label your snacks, you know, the snack packs or the sippy 00:25:51.860 |
We have a lot more students now, especially with 85 plus, right? 00:25:57.140 |
And a lot of them are starting to have the same stuff. 00:26:02.300 |
I know Uriah has the same stuff as like Eleanor, so I'm always checking is it milk or water, 00:26:07.780 |
But if you guys could help us and do a label, that would be great. 00:26:13.340 |
And if you guys have not potty training kids, sometimes there's accidents, right? 00:26:17.140 |
So if you want a Ziploc, like an extra set of clothes, we will just tuck it into their 00:26:21.660 |
cubby and we'll make sure we take care of you. 00:26:24.940 |
And then if you want a parent resource binder or folder, it's just $5 to class A and B, 00:26:32.220 |
If you could cash, check or Venmo or PayPal, Sarah, that would be great. 00:26:50.380 |
[ Applause ] >> The next thing we're going to be talking 00:26:59.100 |
about is we're going to change up our check-in process a little bit. 00:27:05.300 |
What we want to do is protect our kids to make sure that they're safe. 00:27:08.900 |
And so if you guys have noticed, midpoint in the year, we stopped allowing cars to park 00:27:16.260 |
So our kids, you know, so that area is actually a lot more free. 00:27:20.320 |
But we are going to change up the just check-in just to make it a little bit more efficient. 00:27:26.140 |
Brother Joshan is going to come up and just share how it's all going to work out. 00:27:44.700 |
Over there, if you take a look at the front, there's going to be on the left and the right 00:27:50.740 |
side of the entrance a check-in stand that Josh is holding right now. 00:27:56.300 |
And basically on the check-in stand, what you're going to have is whether you are in 00:28:06.500 |
Any of the check-in stands will check in both. 00:28:09.860 |
After you check them in, you're going to walk them into the entrance where it says sprouts 00:28:16.100 |
And then only for sprouts, if they're late, if they're late, we ask you to check them 00:28:21.860 |
in in the check-in kiosk and then walk around and come in through the back way. 00:28:31.260 |
So I'm going to actually show you what that check-in process looks like. 00:28:53.140 |
Essentially all you have to do is enter your phone number. 00:29:10.620 |
So I did the Mowgli's because there's five of them. 00:29:14.540 |
He did the Mowgli family because there's lots of examples to use. 00:29:17.940 |
So similar to the check-in that you do for breeze for a members meeting, it's the same 00:29:25.700 |
All you have to do is check them and the check mark means that they're checked in. 00:29:31.100 |
If you're only going to check in three, select three and then click on done. 00:29:40.300 |
Sorry, it's lagging a little bit, but they're checked in. 00:29:43.820 |
So for the check-in process is going to be, ignore that though. 00:29:49.020 |
For the check-in process, that's all it's going to be. 00:29:51.180 |
It's going to be based off your phone numbers. 00:29:53.280 |
So we pretty much have everyone in the system. 00:29:55.880 |
All they have to do is you have to just enter your phone number. 00:30:02.860 |
Oh, for the checkout process, essentially we're just going to have them come in, pick 00:30:09.500 |
But we just ask for now to just please keep the entrance way as clear as possible. 00:30:15.340 |
And then there will probably be changes maybe in the future. 00:30:26.540 |
So the check-in process is going to be what Joe demonstrated. 00:30:30.220 |
The checkout is going to be the same as we've had it, but we may change it. 00:30:36.700 |
Only request is don't crowd around and socialize and fellowship just around the front door 00:30:45.880 |
And so collect your child and move them and yourselves to a different part of the church 00:30:57.360 |
So okay, we'll hold off on questions until this last part. 00:31:04.040 |
So we actually have a SOEvents ministry, Iwana Reformation Night, and then we have VBS and 00:31:13.480 |
whatever other, as our church gets bigger, this will only continue to grow alongside 00:31:22.660 |
So VBS, usually we have it in July, Reformation Night, usually on the night of October 31st. 00:31:31.680 |
And Iwana, we are actually starting that for the first time this fall. 00:31:35.240 |
So it's going to be our Guinea Pig Iwana held on Thursday nights. 00:31:44.240 |
It's approved workmen are not ashamed, coming from 2 Timothy 2.15. 00:31:50.920 |
So we're adopting much of what is done in the national Iwana. 00:31:57.080 |
So students are divided according to their age, grade levels, and BCC will begin our 00:32:01.240 |
first year of Iwana with just two of the groups, kindergarten to second graders, and then the 00:32:09.320 |
This is what it will look like starting September. 00:32:17.800 |
7 o'clock, we have a large group in games, depending on the age of the children. 00:32:23.080 |
Small group, large group, games in small group, and then 8.30 is when the children are picked 00:32:29.120 |
Right now, we're not opening it up to outside, non-Berean families, mainly because we want 00:32:38.160 |
And so if you guys are familiar with Iwana, it is a lot of incentive-based memory, just 00:32:44.160 |
rote memorization, memorize verses, play games. 00:32:48.080 |
It is a lot of fun, but we do want to try to tailor it to, it's not just, you're not 00:32:53.160 |
just learning God's word for candy and for points and for toys and prizes. 00:32:58.120 |
So we do want to tailor it to our church's core values and needs. 00:33:03.740 |
So we are going to work with this year and try to figure out what's the best way to continue 00:33:13.760 |
So as of now, we are not opening it up to outside families. 00:33:18.280 |
If you guys see here, we are always in search of people to help. 00:33:24.040 |
So if you guys have the heart to do this, you can talk to Jane Shin. 00:33:29.400 |
Christine and Hannah Michelle Chong are the admins, and we have Becky, Laurel, Bia, and 00:33:39.880 |
And they're all the leaders, so far a lot of the leaders' wives, and hopefully we can 00:33:45.120 |
transition other parents to come in and also participate over the course of time. 00:33:52.140 |
And we have Rachel and Lindsay helping with the games. 00:33:55.620 |
So if you, it doesn't mean we can't use your help. 00:33:57.380 |
If you'd like to volunteer, please let Jane Shin know. 00:34:00.340 |
If you don't know who she is, you'll find out soon enough. 00:34:05.600 |
If you need her email address, it's on all of our programs, okay, for just to contact 00:34:15.960 |
So what we are hoping for for Rwana is for the parents who are dropping off their kids 00:34:20.260 |
to be fully involved, to help teach, plan, and organize. 00:34:25.960 |
So this doesn't work if it's not implemented also at home. 00:34:31.840 |
And lastly, before I open it up to questions, we do have our safety training, and right 00:34:36.040 |
now we are in a lot of discussion on how to improve this. 00:34:40.700 |
As of right now, it's a lot of child protection-related things, like who is able to take whom to the 00:34:46.840 |
bathroom, who can change diapers, what we require of all of our, the people who are 00:34:53.680 |
But we do at some point wanna incorporate even like some degree of disaster training, 00:35:05.200 |
Please do not bombard our email addresses with like concerns and stuff. 00:35:08.800 |
We are preparing for that and trying to figure out what's best for the church, not just for 00:35:16.680 |
But we do have the next safety training, September 15th at 2 p.m. here. 00:35:22.840 |
And if you are a parent, my encouragement would be to come to this, because at some 00:35:27.920 |
point, because we're asking you to get involved with our education department, you can't just 00:35:36.200 |
And so the sooner this is done, the easier it is for us to move you around. 00:35:41.400 |
There's a lot of people at our church, last minute they wanna like sign up to help with 00:35:45.800 |
the VBS and Reformation Night and things like that. 00:35:48.280 |
But because we do have a policy in place, you have to be safety trained, so we can't 00:35:54.040 |
take on, like we can't take on a lot of the people. 00:35:56.760 |
So our encouragement is we do offer this quarterly, and when you can, please take advantage. 00:36:03.760 |
And so it'll, time frame will feel like today, just two to three-ish. 00:36:10.040 |
So if you can, please sign up and participate in this. 00:36:14.300 |
If you have any questions concerning our safety training, you can talk to Jane Shin, okay? 00:36:20.120 |
Now I do wanna open it up to questions that's related to all the education department. 00:36:26.280 |
I don't have all the answers, but there are people here who probably have the answers 00:36:32.300 |
And so any of the parents, if you guys have any questions or concerns or anything, what 00:36:41.120 |
do I do if I don't have a Facebook, et cetera, et cetera, like anything. 00:36:44.440 |
If you don't, if no one raises their hand in 10 seconds, I'm gonna like pray. 00:37:05.400 |
>> So, this is what your children are going to be getting sent home. 00:37:46.680 |
So we're looking at like just Paul's journey in Acts 16 to how the church in Philippi gets 00:37:59.000 |
Most worksheets are going to be four pages, but because this is an overview, I felt like 00:38:03.280 |
our kids needed to get a little bit of context. 00:38:07.760 |
So the workbook instructions, they're going to be asked to read an assigned passage, read 00:38:12.200 |
over the prep questions, read over the discussion questions mentally, and/or write down the 00:38:18.480 |
answers for Sunday and review the memory verse. 00:38:21.920 |
And then here, this is what the curriculum's going to look like, chapter one, verses one 00:38:27.720 |
Remember the last time you wrote a warm, love-filled letter to someone? 00:38:30.480 |
It probably started with an affectionate "Dear" blank or a resounding "Hello," et cetera, 00:38:34.880 |
So this was a letter from Paul with different translations. 00:38:47.640 |
What title did they give themselves with the discussion of what a doulos is, a bond servant? 00:38:52.920 |
If you guys haven't picked up on it, in Acts 16, the slave girl follows him around calling 00:38:58.320 |
And so Paul, this is the only other letter outside of Titus where he writes "bond servants." 00:39:07.360 |
So this is going to be just a little discussion on that. 00:39:10.880 |
And then discussion questions, describing your own words, what a slave does, how he 00:39:19.840 |
Looking at the past context of a slave, how would you define grace and peace in your own 00:39:28.880 |
When we become Christians, we are automatically given the title and rights of sons and daughters, 00:39:33.720 |
Will we also inherit the title doulos of Jesus Christ? 00:39:36.760 |
How do these titles affect the way we can and ought to live? 00:39:40.720 |
So just questions for our children, regardless of their age. 00:39:44.760 |
So our kindergarten teachers are not going to whip these questions to class. 00:39:49.800 |
So our kindergarten teachers are actually very good at contextualizing for their age. 00:39:54.560 |
They'll probably take one question and go off that for the whole hour and then do show 00:40:02.380 |
So depending on the age, they will go either very deep or just light, okay? 00:40:09.600 |
So you as a parent, when you see this at home, you didn't go through, the teacher didn't 00:40:17.600 |
Some overachieving church parents, so that their child never flunks church, they do all 00:40:23.320 |
And we're so blessed by that, but that is not necessarily holiness, nor is that required 00:40:30.160 |
This is a benefit and a resource for you, not something that we're going to check, okay? 00:40:37.280 |
And then a memory verse, Galatians 2 20, and that's just our first lesson. 00:40:41.840 |
And all the other lessons are going to be four pages with the same format. 00:40:44.960 |
Text, question, question, discussion, memory verse. 00:40:50.440 |
And so I don't know how long I can keep this up, but we'll try to figure this out. 00:40:54.200 |
Because our education department, one thing that we don't have in modern day Christendom 00:40:59.760 |
is Bible-based curriculum for children that just, because it's a lot of topic-based stuff. 00:41:07.640 |
And it's not too early to start them on inductive study and focus on just the word of God. 00:41:13.240 |
And I'm assuming you guys would agree with that. 00:41:15.280 |
It's just, there's no way we can produce curriculum that is age appropriate for every age. 00:41:21.040 |
So as of right now, until we deem that this is not practical, we'll just keep it this 00:41:32.960 |
This was easy because I did this with our Berean students a decade ago. 00:41:39.000 |
So I just edited it and modified it and updated it a little bit. 00:41:44.880 |
Is it going to be passed out with the children or? 00:41:47.280 |
It's going to be passed out to your children who are in Sprouts and Youth, not the seats. 00:42:01.040 |
But then some parents, some of the kids are going to need it for their class. 00:42:08.240 |
So the seats are still safe and I didn't order them for the same. 00:42:13.240 |
So we're teaching out of the NASB, but as you guys can see on this thing, we're using 00:42:19.720 |
what basically are, like, the whole gamut of our church uses, well, ESV, NIV, NASB. 00:42:25.240 |
I don't know what other translations are commonly used, but these are the most common ones. 00:42:29.020 |
So all the pastors are teaching out of the NAS, but for the NAS, for children, it is 00:42:39.160 |
But a lot of that is we want to help them read it and then help them read it rather 00:42:44.440 |
than just make a children's interpretation of it. 00:42:51.800 |
Our memory versus we've heard it's very wooden in the NAS, but as of right now, I think we'll 00:42:59.160 |
And if we need to adjust it and if you guys, like, throw a hissy fit and just have a mass, 00:43:03.960 |
like, complaint, "We bring back NIV," or something, then we will possibly say no. 00:43:17.640 |
We do, we did have, we purchased some NASB children's Bibles, which they came out with. 00:43:26.800 |
But we are going to try to keep with the NASB, but use all three of the commonly used translations. 00:43:41.080 |
But just for uniformity's sake, we'll say we're going to use NAS. 00:43:49.260 |
>> So for the high schoolers, the fact that you can tell if they're at least one grade 00:43:55.260 |
from the 7.0, does that mean they're going to take it home? 00:44:06.820 |
Obviously they're not going to be able to do all of it. 00:44:11.520 |
But my hope is that, see, biblical information dispensation is not our job. 00:44:21.380 |
And though the platform is this text, if in the class our student has like an important 00:44:28.660 |
issue, if they get stuck on if God is sovereign, how can he allow A, B, and C, I want to encourage 00:44:36.060 |
our teachers, it's okay to put the text aside a little bit, have them do it at home, but 00:44:46.220 |
And so, yeah, we don't ever want to be like, what do we do in class? 00:44:51.740 |
So it's -- but it usually, like, if they pay attention in class, usually it's done. 00:44:57.980 |
This is eight pages because it's the overview. 00:45:01.420 |
And it's just usually two pages of activity and study. 00:45:06.260 |
And then the first and last page are not -- you go through it real quick. 00:45:25.020 |
If you have a question for your department or your teachers, who do we ask? 00:45:40.440 |
And our youth group is going to be Ryan Chang. 00:45:43.220 |
I'll actually -- I'll include that on the slide. 00:45:46.140 |
Sarah, Gloria, and Ryan are our main contact people for the parents to -- and if you shoot 00:45:52.940 |
me an email, I'm not going to, like, look -- like, just be judgmental. 00:46:04.140 |
Ideally, the less I am directly involved in any of the departments, the more effective 00:46:12.620 |
So our goal is to set this up for five years ahead. 00:46:16.040 |
And so like I shared before, we do need a lot of your patience. 00:46:19.140 |
We do need a lot of your help to set up something where even, like I -- even if we don't add 00:46:31.620 |
And so it's -- we're trying to do this to set it up so that we can sustain this long 00:46:38.540 |
So -- but for now, I mean, those are the people. 00:46:52.340 |
So I will officially start in the youth group September 1st. 00:46:56.700 |
Nobody's moving up, actually, to the youth group. 00:46:58.780 |
But our kindergarteners will, like, come in to our sprouts for the first time on September 00:47:06.100 |
And we'll have things September 1st, usually till August of the following year. 00:47:19.100 |
I think there's a feeling of being overwhelmed in all the teachers and feeling of, like, 00:47:32.820 |
And if you guys want to know what our prayer requests are, you can ask. 00:47:38.580 |
But ultimately, we want to build a church as a whole that really honors God, honors 00:47:45.340 |
his word, and really focuses on just disciple making here and abroad. 00:47:50.600 |
And so whatever our role can be with our children, we'll try to have that same vision, okay? 00:48:01.180 |
If you have any more questions, please just email somebody. 00:48:12.140 |
We're only going to have these parents meetings maybe once a year. 00:48:20.140 |
So if you don't have a Facebook, you're going to be out of the loop. 00:48:23.100 |
If you want to just set one up and then just say, like, Mickey Mouse, and then you email 00:48:37.620 |
And then we will not tell anybody who Mickey Mouse is. 00:48:42.420 |
So, but we do need, like, because there is, all the other channels are very difficult 00:48:48.380 |
for us to just organize and, you guys understand, right? 00:48:52.460 |
So if you don't have Facebook and you don't want to get it, and that's fine. 00:49:08.380 |
And this first lesson, I will put on the family ministry page. 00:49:16.420 |
Lord, we thank you for just your kindness to our church. 00:49:20.700 |
I pray that our church will not become an idol, that our children will not become our 00:49:25.300 |
life's purpose, but that we would all face in the same direction, that we would all seek 00:49:30.260 |
to build your church, whether we're seven or 70. 00:49:33.340 |
So I pray for your help just to be able to discern what is practical and what is godly, 00:49:41.300 |
to help us to discern what is good from what is better, and help us to really work toward 00:49:50.660 |
enabling and equipping our children to fight battles in a godly and an effective way. 00:50:02.860 |
And Lord God, we pray that you would raise up just men and women of faith through this