Update: Our first week with the 4 year olds.

As we posted a few weeks ago, we have now started working with the 4 year old class at our church every other Sunday at the 9:30am service. We had out first week with them 2 weekends ago and will be with them again this weekend.

Our first weekend was a huge success! We had SO much fun and really enjoyed our time with them and we are looking forward to each week!

ChangePoint has really done an amazing job creating a world-class children's space and it is evident in the way that the kids are so excited to be there.

We work our way through 3 different rooms and spend under 30 minutes in each, so the kids are never in one space long enough to get bored. We start out in the Prospector Mine Room that is filled with toys and crafts and lots of different play areas and basically we just hang out with the kids there and play with them and get to know them. When we are about 5 minutes from leaving the room a song comes on that is the "pick up song" and it was AMAZING to see that as soon as the song came on, with no prompting from any of the adults, all of the kids got up and started picking up and putting away all of the toys. It was like Pavlov's dog, I was very impressed that they all just knew that the song meant to clean up because we were about to leave. After that room we go to the Under The Sea room where there is music and a short lesson that, surprisingly, the kids were completely focused on. I learned that one of the main reasons that the kids are so focused in that room has to do with the lighting. When you walk in the room is dark but the stage is totally lit and has a very fun look. The dark room causes the kids to turn their focus on the stage and what is happening there, pretty awesome. After that room we end our time in King Cove, which is a giant indoor play area that features slides, reading areas, movie areas, lot of things to climb on and play in and the kids just go crazy and love it!!

As someone who has never served in children's ministry before I didn't know what to expect and I was very pleasantly surprised. It was so much fun and the kids really seem to enjoy their time there, and that is the whole point!

Who knew that 4 year olds were so awesome?!