Kidzville Plug October 2011

Members of Faith Assembly, I hope you all are doing well. This week as seasons begin to change and God’s landscape fills itself with beautiful color; I wanted to update you on what the Lord is doing in the kids ministry here at Faith. Several months ago at the close of summer, the Lord laid three things on my heart…Regroup what you're doing, Re-evaluate how you're doing it, and Renew your call to Christ. To regroup and re-evaluate what we were doing, we launched a survey to every person involved in our kid’s ministry including parents, kids, and volunteers. I had no idea what I was getting into when I asked people to tell me how they honestly thought about our work in the ministry because the results would in fact be a litmus test of me, the leaders I’ve trained, and the programs we have implemented together. But this was the best way to evaluate the effectiveness of our ministry. I was so shocked to see the results and I wanted to share some of them with you. Of the 115 respondents in the survey here are the results…

1. On the question “Rate your overall Kidzville Experience with 0 being the worst and 10 being the best”
-Kids rated their experience with an average of 9.13
-Parents rated their experience with an average of 8.71
-Volunteers rated their experience with an average of 8.96
2. 97% of kids enjoy coming on Sundays…83% enjoy it on Wednesdays
3. 83% of kids feel they learn to experience God when they come and 83% feel they are transformed by what they learn
4. And 70% of kids feel they are equipped to impact the world around them by what they learn
5. 100% of parents feel their kids learn to experience God
6. 71.4% of parents feel their child is being transformed by our teaching
7. 64.3% of parents feel their kids are impacting the world around them with what they learn
8. 100% of volunteers feel like we proved them with the resources they need to do their job
9. 92.3% of volunteers feel their leaders communicate effectively with them
10. 96.2% of volunteers feel properly trained
11. 85.2% enjoy coming to volunteer

To renew our call to Christ, we had a Leadership Luncheon with 50 people in attendance. We broke bread together, enjoyed a time of fellowship, and were refreshed by the message delivered by Pastor Randy Thompson, the Children’s Director for the North Carolina Assemblies of God. Other than that, things are moving as normal here in Kidzville. Kids are responding to God, volunteers are pouring their heart and soul every week in our services, and everyone is working hard as we get ready for our fall outreach event. Going into this year, the Pastor told me that he wanted our ministry to focus on doing two big outreach events this year with one in the spring and one in the fall. Typically churches do fall festivals this time of year where kids play games and such; but for me, I wanted to figure out what we could do that would impact guests with the message of Christ. So after working hard with a group of volunteers on the Kidzville Creative Team, we came up with The Golden Destination, an adventure hay ride that would engage guests in a high seas adventure story about a man named Captain Hiro who would grow up to do great things and save the world with the greatest treasure ever in spite of being killed by pirates. Sound familiar? That’s because the story is all a modern day reflection of the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ created to appeal to kids. Don’t get me wrong, they’ll be lots of great food and games as well as a 20’ tall rock wall, obstacle course, prizes, and candy; but above all, we are going to use this event to communicate the gospel message of Christ. There's lot's more info online just visit www.Faith-Kidzville.org

Pray for us as we embark on this endeavor, invite the unchurched and sign up to volunteer because I can’t do this by myself. Thanks for all of your support.