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Columbia's New
Family Ministry
is
Gearing up for Fall |
Sunday Nights beginning September 14th
Family Dinner: 5:15 pm, Stephenson Hall
Ministry Programs for all ages: 6-7:30 pm
Family Matters Sunday Nights @ Columbia. Come for an evening designed to develop strong, healthy, joy-filled families through a church-home partnership to ignite passion for Jesus Christ from Metro Washington to the World!
Calling all Kids! Hey Students - You too! Family Night Program launches with a whole new line of activities that you are not going to want to miss! The evening begins at 6 pm in your space with Live Music led by your own Praise Teams- 3 in all- Large Group Skits and Bible Teaching, Games and Activities and Small Group time to dig deeper into God's Word in a way that is meaningful to YOU! So get Mom and Dad to mark the calendar and while you are at invite your friends and their parents! We'll "Baby sit" the "rents" while you have a blast in God's House! See you on the 14th! For more information, please contact Chris McPeek 
or Lora Gravatt at the 301 Family Life Building!
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Family Style Dinner
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Age Specific Programs |
- Dinner:
- Dinner @ 5:15 pm - Join fellow Columbian Families for fellowship around the table as we model family prayer and emphasis the importance of the family meal time. Our goal during this time is help families build intergenerational community. Advance tickets for Family Dinners are available. Click here to view the menus for these dinners.
- Newborn thru Preschool:
- Preschool – My First Look (Nursery—K’s) is a unique approach to curriculum for churches, designed to give preschool children a first impression of their loving heavenly Father by helping the child master the teaching concept through the engagement of the five senses, using creative activities, leading experiential worship and connecting at home with the goal of helping a child by the age of five believe: God Made Me, God Loves Me, and Jesus wants to be My Friend Forever.
- Kindergarten thru 5th Grade:
- Grade School – 252 Basics (Grades 1-5) is a unique approach to curriculum for churches, build around three Basic Truths: I need to make the wise choice, I can trust God no matter what, and I should treat others the way I want to be treated, so that every child could embrace what Jesus modeled in Luke 2:52. Each Basic Truth is amplified by a weekly key concept and systemically taught over a three-year track. The program teaches 150 Bible Stories and is based on a Core Virtue and Memory Verse as the framework for each month. Each Night begins in the child's classroom before moving into experiential worship with a live band and large group teaching followed by small group discipleship.
- Middle School and High School Students:
- Middle School (Grades 6-8) and High School (Grades 9-12 ) Students – XP3 (Unplugged for Middle School & Beyond the Edge for High School) is about experiencing three things….WONDER– DISCOVERY– PASSION! This series is created to strategically use these elements so that students move beyond the information about God to an actual experience with Him– one that incites wonder, discovery and passion. Our goal is to incite wonder in the heart of every student in such a way that compels him or her to discover who they are and their passion for influencing others. Each Night begins with experiential worship with a live band followed by small group discipleship and large group teaching.
- Adults:
- Adults - All Ages and Family Make up!
Join Dr. Jim Baucom and his wife Debbie as they lead adults to deal with real family issues we face each day. They will base their teaching on three books they have found to be extremely helpful, For Women Only, For Men Only, and For Parents Only. As well as teaching, they plan to interview real live parents and married couples from within our Columbia Family, so that we can learn from each other. Following their “master teaching” time, adults will be invited to join tables with other adults who share life with them, to delve more deeply and specifically into issues they face in their own lives.
Opportunities to Serve in Family Ministry
Do you have a flair for the arts? Are you creative? Do you love to make things sound good? The Family Ministry Team is looking for YOU! We have multiple opportunities and a variety of levels of commitment to serve in our Sunday evening program! We are searching for talented folks who like led or participate in drama and skits, musicians and vocalists for our Praise Teams, Painters and Designers for sets, props and costumes and those technically minded to help set up and/or run our audio video for large groups. We have openings on the Children's Ministry, Middle School or High School Ministry Teams! For more information on Praise Teams, please contact Carlton Gravatt at
. If you are interested in Drama, please contact Rob Link at
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WANTED: Happy People! The Family Ministry team is looking for Happy People who love to help others! Our new Greeter team is now forming to assist children and students AND their parents to find their ministry rooms, get checked in safely and help them meet new people at Columbia! Ministry opportunities include Sunday mornings at 9:30 am, 10:45 am and Sunday nights at 5:45 pm. If you love to smile and point the way, we need you for about 30 minutes for your chosen ministry session! For more information on this ministry, please contact Becky Mancuso at .
Who will teach the children? Deuteronomy 6:10 says that we are to "diligently teach our children" to love the Lord! The heart of our Family ministry is teaching children and students and so we are inviting all gifted teachers to join us in this life changing ministry to children birth through college. If you love the Lord, love kids and have been given the gift of teaching or are willing to develop your gift then we have a place for you to live out your calling! Teaching opportunities 
(teachers, assistants and substitutes) available on Sunday morning and Sunday evening for Nursery, Preschool, Grade School, Middle School and High School age kids as well as College and Career young adults. The contacts for these areas are:
- Newborns thru Preschool:
- 9:45 - Denita Relaford,
- 11:15 - Tracy Yates,
- Grade School: Elizabeth Trumbull,
- Middle School/High School: Chris McPeek,
- College & Career: Joel Trotter,
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