Noah's Ark Club
is our group of Sunday Morning classes designed especially for babies, preschoolers and kindergartners.
Children aged birth - two years of age are in classrooms staffed by childcare staff members. Our youngest children get consistent, loving care from our childcare staff. These childcare staff members work our MDO program, our Bible Study Childcare programs, and our date nights. Sunday morning classes are at 9:30AM and 11:05AM. Children may attend one or both hours. These classes are divided by developmental stages - Babies, Wobblers, Cruisers, and Climbers. Babies in the baby class promote to a new class once they begin walking.
Children age 3 years - Kindergarten are in fun toy filled classrooms staffed by our wonderful parent teachers. During the school year, our children receive consistant attention and love from two families that team teach for the year. Each week, children learn the Bible through hands-on Bible experiences that are contextually relavant and connected. Our curriculum is written by our staff and utilizes the 12 Eras of the Bible. Each year the children will learn the 12 Eras delving deeper each year and learning about more stories and characters as they get older through 6th grade. Sunday morning classes are at 9:30AM and 11:05AM. Children may attend one or both hours. The classrooms in the Preschool-Kindergarten Ministry area for children age 3- Kindergarten are divided by birthday and promote in August with the school year. We do have two Kindergarten classrooms, children in these classrooms must be in Kindergarten to be in these classrooms. Children in the Kindergarten classes will promote to the 1st grade classes upstairs to the ZooKids Ministry in August. Children in the nursery ministry who are 3 when we promote in August will enter the Preschool classrooms. The last day of summer (the weekend before promotion Sunday in August), we have a Kindergarten graduation. Our Kindergarten children are given a prayer and sendoff from our younger children. The Kindergartners are then taken upstairs to meet Mrs. Mindy (the ZooKids Director) and to see their new classrooms.
Change for Tamina - Sunday Morning Preschool Giving
Every Sunday morning there is a Large Coke Bottle Piggy Bank by the Welcome Check-in Desks. Children are encouraged to tithe their change and place it in this bottle. The money in this bottle goes to an after school ministry in Tamina for families who are mostly single parent and low income. The children who attend this ministry are fed, provided clothing and activities to keep them from getting in trouble while their parents are working. Many times these meals are the only food these children get. Tamina is a neighborhood across I-45, north of Oak Ridge.