Form: Sunday School Registration

Baby Comfort Area (located down stairs from the Narthex)
    A place of hospitality for parents who find themselves with unhappy infants/toddlers in worship. Speakers broadcast the worship service, and rocking chairs, a changing table and toys are available for your comfort. The ushers will be happy to direct you and your child to the Baby Comfort Area. Rocking chairs and changing tables are also available in room 311 as well as the women's bathroom on the lower level, near the elevator.

Sick child policy
   For the protection of everyone involved, please do not bring your child to the Nursery or Sunday School if he / she has any of the following symptoms:

Fever	Earache
Diarrhea	Persistent cough
Vomiting	Swollen glands
Sore thoat	Heavy congestion
Unexplained rash	Any skin infection
Colored discharge (from nose, eyes, ears)	Lice (must be nit free for 24 hours)

   If your child exhibits any of these symptoms while in our care, we will contact you immediately to pick him / her up.  We DO NOT administer any type of medication. If your child has a diaper rash and you would like a topical ointment applied, let us know at check-in.

   Please make sure your child is symptom-free for a period of 24 hours before you return him / her to the church for childcare or Sunday school.

Devotionals:

http://www.upperroom.org/devotional/
http://pockets.upperroom.org/
http://www.upperroom.org/devozine/2010/julaug/default.asp?week=current

Prayer:

http://www.1ststeps.net/Prayground/tabid/617/Default.aspx

Fun ideas:

http://www.letsmove.gov/
http://www.barth.lib.in.us/

How Adults Can Nurture Children in the Christian Faith

By: Mary Alice Gran
"Copyright: General Board of Discipleship. www.GBOD.org used by permission."

In Families:

• Read Bible stories together.
• Talk about pieces of their faith journey and your own faith journey.
• Make a regular habit of doing good for others and talk about "why."
• Pray together.
• Read the Bible and pray at times when children can see you.
• Include God and the use of religious ritual at special family celebrations.
• Stop and pray together when having a family disagreement.
• Sing songs of faith.
• Practice spontaneous prayers together - when hearing a siren, seeing the first bird in the spring, after a joy-filled moment,            or when feelings are hurt.
• Work at keeping religious holidays religious (Christmas, Easter, Pentecost).
• Write letters to children who are away, telling them about God, your faith, your prayers for them, their importance to God.            Include something of your faith in each letter (or e-mail).
• Include age-appropriate Christian symbols, Bibles, Bible storybooks, or Christian music when giving gifts.

In the Church Family:

• Learn children's names and use their names when having conversations with them.
• Seek out children to include in conversations.
• Sit with families at church dinners. Visit with the children as well as the parents.
• Smile at children during worship. Encourage their attendance and inclusion in worship.
• Plan for the inclusion of children for every event.
• Offer to share your interests and talents with children and youth in the church. (Take a small group fishing, help them   make wooden crosses, teach them needlework, share your backyard for a Sunday school class outing, tell Bible stories, and   so on.)
• Become a mentor for a child or youth who is not related to y ou. Develop an ongoing, supportive relationship.

With Neighborhood Children:

• Be a loving, caring neighbor.
• Invite children (and their parents) to join you in attending a church event.
• Bring children with you to Sunday school and church every Sunday. (Make certain you have a parent's permission.)
• Share Bible stories with children, as appropriate.
• Share Christian gifts with children, as appropriate.
• Write prayers for children, and give the prayers to them (particularly important for a life event - birth, death, marriage, first   day of school, getting driver's license, losing first tooth).