Summer 2012 Children's Calendar
MAY 27 (Memorial Day Weekend) – Summer Session Begins.  
Students going into Grades 1 through 6 in the fall will meet in their new classrooms today.  Graduating 6^th Grade Students will start Junior High student ministries classes in the Youth Room.

MAY 27, 2012 - No QUEST Program MEMORIAL DAY Weekend. 
JUNE 3-24 – No QUEST Program in the month of JUNE.  
We again this year will allow our QUEST leaders to take a break and there will be no QUEST on May 27, June 3, June 10, June 17 or June 24.  QUEST will resume on July 1. 

JUNE 10-15 – FRONTIER VILLAGE for ELEMENTARY STUDENTS GRADES 3-6 
Trinity students will be attending Frontier Village #2, June 10-15.  Registration is on-line and information is available at  Prescott Pines Camp.  

JULY 9-13 – GO FISH GUYS “PRAISE!” VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL 2012.  
The Go Fish Guys are back with new songs and great worship and Bible study times!  The week of July 9 through July 13, from 5:30pm ‘til 8:30pm every evening, Trinity will celebrate VBS 2012.  Mark your calendars now and check back for VBS 2012 Volunteer sign-up, Student Registration information, and our full calendar of activities for VBS week! VBS at TBC.

May 20 - GRADUATION SUNDAY for High School, Junior High and 6th Grade Students

PROMOTION SUNDAY for students in Preschool through 5th Grade

Sunday, May 20, will be celebrated at Trinity as Graduation Sunday for our high school and college students.  There will be special displays of graduating seniors in the main worship lobby and Pastor Jake will be speaking in the services. Our 6^th Grade SOLID ROCK students and their families will meet for a Celebration Luncheon in Fellowship Hall after the Current Service. On May 27, our 6^th Grade students will begin meeting with the Junior High Student Ministries group for their Sunday school time in the Youth Room.  

On May 20, all Children’s Ministry students in preschool through 4^th Grade will meet in their regular classrooms at 9:00am. During the last 20 minutes of the class time, students will ‘promote’ to their new classrooms and meet their new teachers.  The students in the following grades will physically move to another classroom and/or building:

Kindergarten (Mrs. Steinbrink) to 1^st Grade (Mrs. Stormy Shark) in Children’s Center Room 2
2^nd Grade (Mrs. Shark) to 3^rd Grade (Mr. Morud) in Children’s Center Room 3
4^th Grade (Mr. Morud) to 5^th Grade (Mr. Kosirog) in Education Center Rooms 8 & 10

All other elementary grade students will remain in their current rooms but promote to the next grade level.  All preschool students will remain in the Education Center Rooms but some will promote to the next age/grade level. See Map .

by Chrissie Boatman and Sandi Wickersheim

An excerpt from Why Children are the Most Important People in the Church by Damon DeLillo , Creative Director at Gospel Light and Children’s Pastor at Mission Church, Ventura, CA.

Back in the day, there was a famous preacher story that circulated:  It was said that D.L. Moody had come back from a tent revival meeting where he reported that 2 ½ people were saved. The other person asked, “You mean two adults and one child?” D.L. Moody responded, “No, two children and one adult. When you save a child, you save a life—a whole life.”

This should not really surprise us. In a statement that He must have known would end up on the wall of virtually every children’s ministry in the world, Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”  Jesus was not just commenting on what adults need to do to enter the Kingdom of Heaven or even insight into what the Kingdom of Heaven is all about; Jesus was telling us something fundamental about childhood:  A person is a child for only for a short time. And in this short time, the entire course of a life can be altered.

There is a season in a person’s life when they are most open to learning what it means to trust God.  It’s a season—sometime between 4-14—when people are more moldable than they will ever be in their lifetime. It is when people are forming their understanding of the world, of relationships, of love, of God.  It is a season when people are impressionable. We should be intentional about ensuring that they get the right impression.

 What is rooted in the heart of a child is almost impossible to uproot in the life of an adult. I do not think this season is by accident.  When God said, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven”. I think He really did mean everything.  It is during this season we need to focus our efforts on helping people place their trust in Jesus.

Many people call this the 4-14 Window. What we do during this window may be the most important thing the church does.

Please pray for the leadership, teachers and volunteers of Trinity’s Children’s Ministry and consider becoming part of the team that reaches The Most Important People in the Church.