Vision

We love children at Aspen Grove Community Church. The adult and teen volunteers count it a privilege to serve children and partner with families in introducing children to Jesus. We have children’s programming for children birth–6^th grade during the worship service. Each classroom is staffed with at least two screened and trained volunteers who are excited about working with your child. Please arrive a few minutes before 9:30 to have enough time to check your child into class.

Please note: Children in the preschool and elementary classes are to be checked into the classroom, but will attend the first portion of their worship service with their family. During the service, someone from the stage will dismiss the children from the service to go to the back of the room to meet their Sunday School teachers who will take them to their respective classrooms.

The elementary classes began reading the stories of Easter week.  They read about Jesus’ profound teaching during the Last Supper when Jesus went around to each disciple and washed his feet.  Feet that had been walking in sandals, perhaps sometimes barefoot, through all kinds of dirt, dust and muck.  The lowest of low tasks was taken on by the Lord of the Universe.  And then he said we are to do likewise.

Though foot-washing is still a very powerful and intimate act of service, we chose toilet cleaning for the kids to practice this calling.  There are far dirtier bathrooms in other parts of the city and world, but this was a concrete way for our kids to connect Jesus’ words to their lives.  They took it on with gusto!

Our hope in family ministry is that our kids would be transformed by the Scriptures they read to lead lives full of uncommon grace.  We believe the Holy Spirit is at work doing just that.  We are grateful for your prayers for our families and for the many who serve them each week.

The kids at our church had the opportunity to step out of these daily routines and experience what kids in a different culture do as one of their main activities each day: collecting water.

While many African children spend many hours each day doing this task, our water walk was a short ten-minute walk. But the water we collected was very similar to the water that many African children get: dirty!

When we returned to church after our water walk, the kids were treated to a special visitor. Marcus, a local middle school teacher, shared his story about growing up in the small African nation of Liberia. Like many African kids, one of Marcus’ jobs was to collect water. The water was so contaminated that even now as an adult, he still has stomach problems.

Our kids learned a lot this week, both from their brief water walk experience and from Marcus’ remarkable life story!

“I loved seeing our children build slum houses to give them a perspective of what life is like there. My kids had a great time, and learned so much in the process. I’m sure they will remember that night for years to come. What a night!” – Michael (Parent of three children involved in Aspen Grove’s Family Ministry)