Our Kids

Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children. [Deuteronomy 4:9]

Our Hope

Roots Kids is not meant to just be childcare. We want to do more. Our hope is that we could lead our kids in real, authentic discipleship. To see our community's children love God with all their soul and all their might. We work as hard as we can to provide opportunities for children to discover God; experience His work in their lives, enjoy Him in community and extend His love to others.

Bible Centered

  • We believe the Bible is God’s story and that our life stories relate to it. The Bible is not just a story of characters that provide moral lessons. It is about the Father sending His Son and Spirit to rescue His children.
  • We believe that children should know their need for a rescuer and understand God’s plan of sending Jesus as their rescuer.
  • We believe the Holy Spirit is God’s chosen teacher who causes spiritual growth and formation when and as He chooses. We are His partner and come alongside His work in a child’s life.

Child Focused

  • We believe every child is made in the image of God, and their purpose is to glorify and enjoy Him.
  • We value engaging children in age appropriate, practical, interactive, creative and fun ways.
  • We believe each child is uniquely made by God with different personalities, learning styles, needs and abilities. We commit to working with parents on how to integrate their child successfully into our community.
  • We believe children can handle deep truths at a young age.

Family Oriented

  • We believe parents, before any institution, have the primary responsibility for the spiritual nurture of their children. In turn, we value working alongside families to disciple their children.
  • We strive to offer structures, curriculum, opportunities and resources that allow the church to walk alongside parents to help enable and equip them in their God-given role.
  • We value children from infancy onward being a vital part of the church, watching and participating as we relate to Christ.

 Relational

  • We value connecting children in life-impacting relationships with adults and their peers.
  • We value our children being discipled by a wide scope of our church body, both men and women who are healthy followers of Jesus.
  • We believe children benefit from experiencing God and learning about Him alongside their peers.

Safe

  • We value a safe place for all of our children: emotionally, physically and spiritually.

 

Monthly Scripture Memory

We love learning a new scripture each month as a church body. The scripture is highlighted each week during our Kid's Welcome and then reinforced in each classroom.  Parents are encouraged to continue practicing with their children at home throughout the month.  The Bible is filled with God’s words to us. God’s words are true and they’re a gift. God’s words teach us about God’s love for us, His Son, Jesus, and His Holy Spirit.  We desire to hide God's word in our hearts.

Encourage your kids to keep practicing the monthly scripture at home.  Find an adult on Sunday at church to tell your verse to.  Then put a colored pom pom in the jar at the Roots Kids Sign In Table.  When there are 100 in the jar we will celebrate as a church....treats included.  Adults, you can participate too.

Our Verse for April...

John 10:9

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March 2020...

Click links below to print out Coloring Page PDF

John 10:9 Coloring Page

Philippians 4:12-13

Psalm 23:5-6

Psalm23.1-4

Luke 1.46,47,49

1 Peter 1:24

Psalm 105:1-3

Matthew 6:9-13 The Lord's Prayer

Psalm 40:1-2

Isaiah 41:10

Isaiah 53:5

Psalm 34:8-9

Lamentations 3:22-23

Romans 5.1 Coloring Page

Romans 5.2 Coloring Page

Romans 5.3-4 Coloring Page

Strategies, Tips & Ideas to Memorize Bible Verses

  • Repeat the verse over and over again.
  • Visualize the verse and try to make a mental picture of the verse in your mind.
  • Create anchor words. Pick out key words and focus on remembering those words to help remind you of the verse.
  • Sometimes verses follow a pattern. Use those to help remember the verse.
  • If you get stuck on a word, don’t look at the verse immediately. Get someone to give you a key word to help your memory start working.
  • Try mnemonic devices. Many of us learned ROY G BIV to remember the colors of the rainbow. Make up your own device to help you remember verses.
  • Write a verse you are learning on the bathroom mirror with a dry erase marker.
  • Write the verse several times on a piece of paper. Invite children to decorate and illustrate.
  • Take turns letting each person say the verse and then talk about it. Encourage each other to share tips for associating/remembering the verse. Give family members opportunities to share how the verse is meaningful to them.
  • Sing Bible verses to familiar tunes or make up new melodies for a verse you’ve learned. Put a verse or passage to a beat. Get silly and have fun while singing your song.
  • Take turns acting out verses.
  • Quote a verse incorrectly, omitting or changing a key word. See if someone catches the mistake.
  • Record your family reciting verses you’ve learned.
  • Write out verses on index cards. Keep them in a recipe box or use a small inexpensive 4x6 photo album. Keep this near the kitchen table and review during meal times.
  • Use chalk to write out verses you are memorizing on the driveway or sidewalk.
  • Write out the verse on index cards- one word on each card. Scramble the cards, and then assemble the verse word by word in the correct order.
  • Write the verse out with several key words missing and take turns to fill in the blanks.
  • Get your family to stand in a circle. Have a ball to pass around. As you catch the ball you say one word of the verse and then pass it to another who says the next word. Continue until you’ve finished the verse. Time how long it takes to say the whole verse. Try to beat your previous time.
  • Say the verse on “different levels” getting louder each time. Start by sitting. Say the verse quietly.  Crouch like a frog and say the verse a little louder. Kneel on your knees and say the verse even louder. Stand bent over…Stand straight up…Jump up and down and be as loud as you can!
  • Repeat the verse while jumping with both feet, then while hopping on one foot, then while flapping your arms, while turning in circles, while covering your eyes, etc.
  • Start by standing on one wall of a room. Say the verse and then jump forward.  Say the verse again.  Jump forward again.  Do this until you reach the other wall.

Worship For Families

Check out Seeds Family Worship for great resources on using songs/worship to help kids hear and learn scripture.  You can listen right online to all of their songs. 

Starting soon in all Roots Kids classes we will be listening weekly to a few songs. Then be watching for them to come to Roots gatherings.  Below are some of the songs for the next few months.  We encourage you to listen at home with your children.  Our aim is to focus on some of the scriptures we will be memorizing.

John 10:9

Philippians 4:12-13

Psalm 23

Luke 1:46-50

1 Peter 1:24

Psalm 105:1-3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nweGfVncd6E

Matthew 6:9-13 (Verse for September 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijPuAtrwHYM

Psalm 40:1-2 (Verse for June 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV4innsFaa4

Isaiah 41:10 (Verse for May 2019)

Isaiah 53:5 - (Verse for April 2019)

Psalm 34 - (Verse for January/February 2019)

Colossians 3:12, 14

 

Romans 5:1-5

 

Luke 2:10-11 (For Christmas)

 

Lamentations 3:22-23

 

Psalm 63:1-4

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