Kids LIFE: Our goal and strategy

At Kids LIFE, our goal is to help parents instill their kids with five important values before they enter Junior High.  Each one relates to the core values of WGBC.

WGBC Core Value: People
Kids LIFE Value: Honor. Honor treats people as special, does more than what's expected, and has a great attitude.

WGBC Core Value: Authenticity
Kids LIFE Value: Truth.  Tell the truth, admit mistakes, know the Bible is true, process truth through dialog.

WGBC Core Value: Growth
Kids LIFE Value: Bible & Prayer.  It is is important to read and memorize the Bible and pray.

WGBC Core Value: Relevance
Kids LIFE Value: Jesus.  Jesus is God, not everyone knows Jesus, and we should tell people about Him.

WGBC Core Value: Mobilization
Kids LIFE Value: Serving.  It's an important way to show people that we care.

So how do we reach this goal? I'm glad you asked. 

1.  We talk about them.  Each Sunday, elementary age kids experience music and worship with the adults in our main service, then are dismissed with their leaders to LIFE Time.  At LIFE Time, they hear a lesson at their level that is either a "kid version" of what the message is for the adults, or it's a lesson about one of the Kids LIFE values.  Either way, one of more of the values is worked in to the lesson each week.  After the roughly 15 minute lesson, the kids break out into small discussion groups based on their age.  Here they can talk about the Big IDEA they heard in the lesson and how they can use it at home and at school. 

2.  Identify ways to use them. This is part of what the kids do in their small group.  From time to time we also organize ways to put them in to action as a group.

3. Provide incentives to use them.  We use a reward system with our own currency called "Pods" to provide incentives for kids to do things like memorizing scripture, serving the community, bringing friends, and "getting caught" using a Big IDEA at home or school.   Kids save their Pods in the bank, MyPods, and use them at our store, PodPlace.

KidsLIFE Overview

Kids LIFE - Living In our Father's Example
Our kids are enjoying Kids LIFE!   We hope you kids will too!

Nursery: Children from 2 - 29 months are in the Nursery for the entire service.

Preschool: Children from 30 months through Pre-K are in the room across from the Nursery.  They stay in the service for the music to worship with their parents.  Once the music ends volunteers and kids are dismissed to their classroom.

Grade School: Children from Kindergarten through 5th grade are upstairs above the Nursery.  They stay in the service for the music to worship with their parents.  Once the music ends volunteers and kids are dismissed to their classroom.  When you arrive, go to the Information Desk in the foyer to check-in your grade school aged child and give him/her a nametag.  Then keep your child with you in the service until after the music worship part of the service when they are dismissed with the leaders to go to class. 

At 10:30, when service ends, parents of Nursery and Preschool aged children will need to pick up their children from class.  Grade school leaders will bring the children back to the foyer where they can be picked up.  Children K-1st need to be checked out. Children 2nd grade and up will be freely released into the Worship Center at the close of the service.  If the children are not present when the service completes, please go to the upstairs Kids LIFE room to pick them up ASAP.

Lovin' LIFE

From 11:00am to 12:00pm every Sunday we have a full hour of fun, music, videos, friendships, games and more designed for our children.  This ministry is specially designed for the kids whose parents are attending one of our adult Life classes.  We hope you can join us during this hour.

You want to Volunteer?  Great!
We are actively recruiting volunteers for the following positions:

• Nursery staff (On-Call/Substitute or Regular)
• Preschool Teachers or Assistants
• KidsLIFE Lead Teacher or Group leaders
• Check-In Desk Volunteer

Now, we take the safety and security of our kids seriously, so for each of these positions we will ask for you to go through our application process before you serve, but don't let that stop you from having a blast serving in KidsLIFE where our goal is for our volunteers to be so jazzed about serving that they can't wait to come! If you have a login to this site you can go to the Kids LIFE Staff page where the position desciptions are all listed.