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- Volunteer of the Week & Easter Update
  
  Posted at 11:19 am by Stephanie McDonald
  
  Mar 22nd
  Time to celebrate! Meet our Volunteer of the Week, Linda Moore. Linda has been serving in Early Childhood for almost a year. You’ll find her in the Green Room every other Saturday at 5:45pm as the Team Leader. She has a passion for the kids and people around her and it shows as she serves with her whole heart. Thank you, Linda, the best is yet to come! #ParkviewVOW
  
  WOWSER! Next week we kick off our nine Easter services at the Orland campus, yahoo!!! Remember to invite friends and family to Parkview services, it will be AMAZING!
  
  With nine services and close to 250 team members in our Early Childhood Ministry, it will be extremely important we all know
  when and where we are scheduled for Easter. I am so encouraged and AMAZED to see how God has put everything into place for next week. Thank you for your faithfulness to serve, you ROCK!!!
  
  IMPORTANT EASTER UPDATES:
  - We will open earlier NEXT WEEK during Easter so we will not huddle in the green room. Please go directly to your designated room 45 minutes before the service to meet and greet your team and review the super fun activities Lisa will have posted on the cabinets. Thank you!!!
  - There will be no large group teach outside the classrooms during the Easter services next week. Lisa will have everything set up individually in each room for you.
  - Expect lots of new families and there may be new Easter helpers serving with you. Please make sure the person on your team who is at the door knows to check the sticker to make sure the child is entering the correct room. We’ll also have lots of new friends helping during Easter services. Please help me welcome them and make them feel comfortable.
  We always encourage you to review the activities Lisa has prepared ahead of time. Simply go to our team website https://parkviewec.wordpress.com and click on curriculum tab on the right.
  
  ***OPENINGS***
  
  We need three more people to play with us tomorrow, Saturday, March 24th at the 3:45 service. Contact me or just come on in tomorrow if you are available. Our Saturday team would GREATLY appreciate it!!!
  
  If you are not already scheduled or open to serving more than one service, during Easter we need four more people for the Easter Sunday, March 31, 1:00pm service and then two more people for Friday, March 29th at 5pm. You can go directly to our online scheduler to plug yourself in click here. Thanks SO much!
  
  Please keep loving, listening and encouranging the children and showing them how to follow after Jesus!
  
  With much love and great appreciation,
  Jill
  
  “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” Ephesians 4:29
  Posted in Early Childhood Curriculum
- Volunteer of the Week, FB Group, Easter & Summer Party
  
  Posted at 12:35 pm by Stephanie McDonald
  
  Mar 16th
  
  Let’s Celebrate!!! Meet our Volunteer of the Week, Lynn McWhinnie. Lynn is a Team Leader and has been serving for almost 10 years. She is always smiling and ready to jump in and help whenever needed. The children have so much fun with Lynn and we love seeing her every Saturday with her bright smile and positive energy. Lynn is a great example of a dedicated leader! Thank you, Lynn the best is yet to come!
  
  If you are on Facebook, we have a private Facebook group for our Early Childhood Ministry. This is another place for us to share, encourage each other and have community. AJ brought up a good point last week. When you serve, if something happens that you know would help others please feel free to post and share that information with our team in the Facebook group. Let’s use our online communities, this blog and Facebook, to share, minister to each other and be the best we can be so that overflows into the children.
  
  Here is the link to our Facebook group. If you are not a member just let me know and I’ll add you. https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/410292205668409/
  
  Easter is fast approaching! If you are not scheduled to serve during any of our 9 Easter services please use our online scheduler and plug yourself in, we still have LOTS of openings. Lisa is planning tons of fun activities as usual. It will be a blast!!!!
  
  If you have the gift of hospitality, event planning, organization please contact me. I’m planning a summer celebration for our team in June. It will be the perfect time for us to celebrate the end of the school year and get our families together. Please contact me if you are interested in being a part of the event planning for our team. Thanks!
  
  Thank you for your dedication and commitment to His little ones!
  
  With love,
  
  jill
  
  Posted in Early Childhood Curriculum
- Volunteer of the Week, Karen’s Testimony, Easter & Thank You
  
  Posted at 2:09 pm by Stephanie McDonald
  
  Mar 6th
  
  Let’s celebrate! Meet our Volunteer of the Week, John Creedon. John started serving in September with his wife, Lorie and daughter, Erin. He jumped right in! John serves every other Sunday at 9am in the Green Room. John loves to individually welcome each child and make them feel special. He recently became a Team Leader and leads Large Group Worship. John is a great leader! Thank you, John, the best is yet to come!
  
  Please help me lift up Karen Navarro-Villafane in prayer this week. She serves in Early Childhood with her husband, Pedro, every other Saturday at 3:45pm. This weekend Karen will give her testimony live at each service!
  
  We have NINE Easter services at the end of the month. If you are not already serving and can lend a hand we would GREATLY appreciate it. We need at least one team member in each room and then we’ll have Easter peeps assisting. There will be no large group teaching outside the classrooms. Lisa will have a TV and everything you need prepared for inside the rooms just like we did for Christmas. There will be a bulletin insert this weekend asking people to sign up to serve for an Easter service. DO NOT use this form to sign up for an Easter service, they are only for non-volunteers. Please contact me directly or use better yet use the online scheduler. Let me know if you need your log in information. Thanks!
  
  Easter Service Times:
  
  Thurs., March 28th 7pm
  
  Fri., March 29th 5pm & 7pm
  
  Sat. March 30th 3pm, 5pm & 7pm
  
  Easter Sunday, March 31st 9am, 11am, 1pm
  
  Check out this wonderful email from Tracy. Her daughter is three years old. Everything you do in the classrooms is making a difference, way to go TEAM!!!!!
  
  “My family and my daughter LOVES everything about Parkview 😉 Every Sunday she tells my husband and I she wants to go to “school” and play with her friends at God’s house! She calls the Kidz Connection “school” and Parkview Church God’s house. The Kidz Connection team is wonderful! Every Sunday on our way home she tells us all about what she did and the friends she met! I could tell you many more wonderful stories! Keep up what you guys are doing for our kids and families it is a blessing!!”
  Tracy B.
  
  More RECORD-BREAKING NEWS! This JUST in from the weekend… We had the most ever kids for a weekend at Orland – 1,077 AND the most kids yet for Sunday night service – 239 AND….the 5th consecutive week of attendance increase – which was: 887, 982, 1006, 1046, 1077. GREAT JOB TEAM, let’s keep praying God’s little ones to come hear and see His AMAZING love.
  
  Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
  Matthew 19:13-15
  
  Make it a GREAT week!
  
  With love,
  
  jill
  
  Posted in Testimonials
- Storytelling + Volunteer of the Week
  
  Posted at 1:47 pm by Stephanie McDonald
  
  Mar 1st
  I know I sound like a broken record but…we did it again! We had another record-breaking attendance last weekend. There were 1,046 children in our Kidz Connection last weekend and of that 388 of the children were in our Early Childhood classrooms. Plus the new Sunday night 5:45pm service has become one of our second busiest services. Thank you SO much for your dedication and commitment to His little ones!
  
  It takes a over 100 of our team members EVERY WEEKEND to have all our of Early Childhood rooms open for the Parkview families. It is so exciting to see what God continues to do at Parkview!
  
  Please help me celebrate Volunteer of the Week…Cassidy Cozen! You can meet and learn more about Cassidy here…https://parkviewec.wordpress.com/meet-the-ec-team-volunteers-of-the-week/
  
  This weekend Lisa provided in the curriculum a fun book to read so let’s look at some tips to remember or try…..
  
  Children love story time, it’s a great closing activiy! Great storytelling skills are not necessary, just enthusiasm!
  - Use the defined carpet area for children to sit. Children like to know where their physical boundaries are.
  - Discuss the cover with the children. What can we see? What might the book be about? Who is the author and illustrator? The length of this discussion will depend on the age of the children and discussion skills.
  - Use a loud clear voice and adopt different voices and tones to portray different characters and feelings.
  - Pause throughout the story to add a comment or allow children to comment and predict. Keep it simple to start with such as “Oh I can see Tom feels really sad, see his sad face”, add more complex questions if children can cope with discussion during the story, “What do you think made him feel sad”.
  - After the story allow children to comment on what they liked, what happened, to make alternate endings and to recall the story progression. The possibilities are endless. Most of all have FUN!
  What storytelling tips do YOU have? Feel free to leave a comment on our blog and share with our Early Childhood community, we’d LOVE to hear from you!!! Scroll back up to the top of this article and click on the ‘leave a comment’ link. : )
  
  With love,
  
  Jill
  Posted in Early Childhood Curriculum
- The Role You Play + Volunteer of The Week
  
  Posted at 5:01 pm by Stephanie McDonald
  
  Feb 21st
  
  We did it again, we hit a record-number! There were 1,006 precious children visiting Kidz Connection last weekend and of that 385 of those little ones were in our Early Childhood rooms. God is moving powerfully!!!
  
  Thank you for being a valuable part of our team as we work together to care for the children and unfold Bible stories and truths.
  
  Boeing CEO, Alan Mulally says, “Many of the strongest emotions we feel are influenced by the degree to which we feel connected to others. People seem to need frequent positive interactions with the same individual and they need these interactions to occur in a framework of long-term, stable caring and concern.”
  
  The role you play in the Early Childhood ministry is crucial; your consistent presence and influence in the lives of the children is not only helping them connect with you, it’s also helping them connect with God. In a fast-paced world filled with constant change, you provide consistency and stability to our children—in some cases, you may be the only consistent connection they have with someone. Thank you for your commitment to providing care, concern, and stability to our little ones here at Parkview Christian Church. Your dedication and influence is making a difference!
  
  Let’s celebrate! Meet our Volunteer of the Week SAMARA DARLING by clicking on this link…https://parkviewec.wordpress.com/meet-the-ec-team-volunteers-of-the-week/
  
  May you feel the love of God to the fullest extent and know the depth and richness of His love for you today and always!
  
  Posted in Early Childhood Curriculum
- Volunteer of the Week + WOWSERS!
  
  Posted at 10:59 am by Stephanie McDonald
  
  Feb 14th
  
  Let’s celebrate! Meet Volunteer of the Week CRISTIN GILLIS by clicking on this link…https://parkviewec.wordpress.com/meet-the-ec-team-volunteers-of-the-week/
  
  WOW, WOW, WOW! What a phenomenal weekend we had!!!
  
  Last weekend our orientations for all our new “just try it’ friends was hugely successful. We then had 34 new people try out serving in Early Childhood and we’ll have at least another 24 coming in this weekend.
  
  Plus the new 5th service was packed and we had all our rooms open and running smoothely. All while Kidz Connection had one of the busiest weekends yet, 983 children of which 375 were in our Early Childhood rooms. God is GREAT!!!! You are the best team ever!
  
  As we grow and train our new team members we are need of a few more seasoned team members to help this Saturday at the 3:45pm and Sunday night at 5:45pm. Please contact me if you can play with us, thanks!
  
  Never forget the difference you make every time you choose to give. Check out this thank you note from a parent last week…https://parkviewec.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/why-we-do-what-we-do-a-thank-you-note-from-mom/
  
  Thanks and Happy Valentine’s Day, YOU are loved!
  Hugs,
  
  jill
  
  2 Timothy 1:7 – “For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”
  
  Posted in Early Childhood Curriculum
- Why We Do What We Do…A Thank You Note from Mom…
  
  Posted at 8:28 pm by Stephanie McDonald
  
  Feb 11th
  
  THIS JUST IN!!! Here’s an email from a parent to our Children’s Ministry Director, Laurie Kamp, that I had to share….Way to go Early Childhood Team!!! YOU are making a difference!!!!
  
  “I wanted to drop you a note and thank you for your warm welcome during last Saturday’s service. My three year old son attended Kidz Connection for the first time and you were gracious enough to walk us through the process, all the way to the Blue Room. It was a courageous event for both my son and I as he hasn’t attended pre-school yet. The classroom volunteers were kind and inviting and he made it through the service. :)”
  
  Posted in Testimonials
- Volunteer of the Week + Pep Talk from Kid President
  
  Posted at 2:42 pm by Stephanie McDonald
  
  Feb 7th
  
  Come celebrate with us! Meet Volunteer of the Week JEN HENDRICKER by clicking on this link…https://parkviewec.wordpress.com/meet-the-ec-team-volunteers-of-the-week/
  
  We are getting ready to launch our 5th service THIS WEEKEND. I’ve been quickly contacting all the new people who expressed interest in serving in our Early Childhood Ministry. Get ready to see alot of new faces and please help me give them a warm welcome. We have some of our current team members moving over to the 5th service to serve which means we have a few gaps to fill. Right now we could use a few more helping hands this Saturday for the 3:45pm service. If you are available please contact me.
  
  This week I thought it would be fun if we all took 3 minutes and received a pep talk. click here…http://youtu.be/l-gQLqv9f4o . I don’t know, all I know is it’s everyone’s duty to give the world a reason to dance. So let’s get to it, let’s dance!
  
  With love,
  
  jill
  
  Posted in Early Childhood Curriculum
- Volunteer of the Week + Fun Video
  
  Posted at 3:31 pm by Stephanie McDonald
  
  Jan 29th
  
  Come celebrate with us! Meet Volunteer of the Week JOHN TAYLOR by clicking on this link…
  
  https://parkviewec.wordpress.com/meet-the-ec-team-volunteers-of-the-week/
  
  Just for fun…What are those crazy sounds the little boys are making in the corner as they wheel the toy cars around the table?
  
  And do you wonder what the little girls are carefully serving and eating off those tiny plastic plates?
  
  Kids will be kids. So, why do we quickly forget what that means? Why do we want them to grow up so fast?
  
  Take a break to watch this short 2 minute video and remember what it was like to be a kid. Remember that no matter what our age, we all still have a little bit of childlike play in us! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJpKt6UP08
  
  We have 7 openings to fill THIS SATURDAY. If you are available, we are in need of six more team members at the 3:45pm and one more person for the 5:45pm Saturday. Please email jill.shea@parkviewchurch.com or send Jill a message on Facebook right away if you or someone you know can help. Your willingness to serve the children is having an eternal impact on their lives.
  
  Making room for more! We’ll be moving to 5 services starting NEXT WEEKEND. We need all hands on deck in February with the launch of a 5th service (Sundays 5:45pm). How EXCITING to see more families that are seeking God and their children learning about their heavenly Father!
  
  Thank you, thank you, thank you for your commitment to our Early Childhood Ministry.
  
  You’re the best team, love ya!
  
  Posted in Early Childhood Curriculum
- Thanksgiving/Christmas Party 2012
  
  Posted at 5:33 pm by Stephanie McDonald
  
  Nov 18th
  
  We are very grateful for all our volunteers and the time and energy that you faithfully share with the children and families at Parkview! Today we enjoyed food, fun, fellowship and celebrated God’s blessings together. Thank you everyone!
  
  With love,
  
  Jill and Lisa
  
  Posted in Early Childhood Curriculum
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