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Recent content by dmacschmidt

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    Keeping children occupied between services

    Thanks, saved24! I appreciate your input and will see if this works...
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    Curriculum help, please

    We are a Baptist congregation, and have ended up going with "Growing in Christ" which is a Lutheran curriculum. I chose it because it really helps the kids to learn and interact with the Bible stories (far more than any other curriculum I have seen), and it includes a short puppet play which...
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    Keeping children occupied between services

    Our church runs two services on Sunday mornings, and our Sunday school program runs during the second service. The first service usually finishes around 10:40am or 10:45am, and our second service begins at 11am. It was my hope that the Sunday School teachers could meet at 10:45am to pray...
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    Do you use nametags for the Sunday School children?

    Our church has typically required all children and volunteers to wear nametags as part of our child protection policy. However, some of the older children (gr. 4-6) feel that they are being treated like infants if they have to wear name tags, and apparently they find ways of "losing" them or...
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    Background checks?

    Yes, we do, and I think it's essential! All our children' workers are quite happy to do this, knowing that it is one way of protecting our children