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Children in Worship

At Masonboro Baptist Church, children are a vital part of the worship experience and are always welcome in worship services.  We offer options that allow children to be part of the corporate worship experience while still being mindful of their unique needs.

Nursery- Offered during both worship services in the Preschool Center for children from birth to 3 years old.

WOW (Worship Our Way)- After the offertory in the 8:30 service, children 4 years-2nd grade are invited to go to WOW in the Children’s Center.  Volunteers will take them to their Sunday School classes when the service ends.

Children’s Church- Children 4 years-2nd grade are invited to leave the 11:00 service after the offertory for Children’s Church.  Parents can pick up their child in the Children’s Center following the service.

Worship Bags- Each Sunday children are offered a worship bag designed just for them.  These bags include paper and pencils, a children’s bulletin, an offering envelope, and other tools to help children worship.  Please leave your bag on the pew at the end of the service so we can refill it for the following week.

What do the Preteens learn?

Sunday Morning (Sunday School):

• Curriculum: The Edge by Gospel Light
• Description: This course challenges and inspire kids with God's Love and Biblical truth, bringing it home in a way that helps them relate to their everyday life.
• Leaders: Kary Massengil, Beth Topping, Doris McQuery

Wednesday Night (Small Group):

• Curriculum: varies
• Description: Small group study and discussion on various topics with an emphasis on how our faith impacts our lives.
  
• Leaders: Brandie Newsome, Phil Wahoff

Upcoming Events

Planet Fun: May 14 4:30-8 pm.  Cost is $10 plus money for food.

Student Life for Kids summer camp for Quest 56 kids (Rising 5th-7th graders)!  The camp will be July 21-24 in Taccoa, Georgia and costs $269/person.   See Jonathan or Shirley for details or visit their website at www.kidscamp.studentlife.com. 

 

Parenting Resources

 

Boundaries With Kids by Cloud and Townsend.  Zondervan, 1998.

            This follow up to the books Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No to Take Control of Your Life and Boundaries in Marriage offers an approach to parenting that is focused on teaching children to set and maintain appropriate personal boundaries as well as building responsibility in children.  The book’s principles are based on biblical principles of responsibility, stewardship, and self-control.  Parents learn to interact with their children in ways that help them develop good boundaries.  This book is appropriate for parents of children of all ages.

 

Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood by Jim Fay and Charles Fay.  Love and Logic Institute, 2000.

            This fun parenting book provides lots of practical suggestions any parent can apply to common problems parents face with their young children such as tantrums, power struggles, potty training, whining, and sibling rivalry.  This book focuses on specific strategies parents of children from birth through six years of age can apply that will reduce stress in the home and increase their child’s ability to learn from his or her mistakes.

 

Parenting With Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility by Cline and Fay.  Pinon Press, 1990, 2006.

            I highly recommend this book as the staple for developing an effective strategy for responding to and managing your child’s behavior.  The principles in this resource will help your children learn to be responsible and make good choices and will help you learn effective ways to respond to common problems that reduce or eliminate power struggles in your home.  Specific help is given for helping parents deal with nearly 50 common areas in which children may develop problem behaviors.  Parents of any age child can benefit from this book, but those with children between the ages of 5 and 12 will find it the most helpful.

 

Parenting Teens with Love and Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood by Cline and Fay.  Pinon Press, 1992, 2006.

            This is the last in the Love and Logic series and has been specifically written to deal with typical pre-adolescent and adolescent behavior effectively.  Parents learn to apply the love and logic principles to their rapidly changing relationship with their teens.  Appropriate sharing of control and decision-making along with predictable consequences for irresponsible choices are the staples of this parenting philosophy.  Many specific situations are discussed in detail including aggression, physical appearance, dating, peer pressure, money, grades, resistance to church, and mood swings.  

 

Transforming the Difficult Child: The Nurtured Heart Approach by Glasser and Easley.  Center for the Difficult Child Publications, 1998.

            This highly structured approach to discipline and behavior problems is designed to assist parents who are raising intense children with psychological or emotional challenges.  It is based on the premise of providing as much attention as possible for positive behaviors.  Detailed help is given for establishing a credit system to discourage negative behaviors and reward positive behaviors, which allows the very challenging child or teen to experience success.  This book is helpful to parents of foster children, children with emotional disorders, children with ADHD, children who have suffered abuse, and unusually rebellious children/teens.

 

The Five Love Languages of Children by Chapman and Campbell.  Northfield, 1997.

                        This resource teaches parents to discover the primary love language of their child in order to improve their relationship and interactions.  The premise is that every person primarily experiences love through one of the following: physical touch, words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, or acts of service.  Knowing which language best communicates love to your child can make communication, discipline, and learning more positive and productive.  Knowing they are loved is foundational to the development of all children.  Sometimes parents think they are communicating love, but their children aren’t hearing them because they are speaking a language their child doesn’t understand.

Children's Ministry Council
The Children's Ministry Council (CMC) of Masonboro Baptist Church meets quarterly and is responsible for planning and coordinating curriculum, activities, programs, and standards for the Children's Ministry.    If you are interested in serving on this council, please contact Shirley Womble.  Parents and volunteers are welcome to attend our meetings and participate in our discussions.