Children's Ministry

This includes:

• Each meeting should include Prayer, Worship, Study, Fellowship, Service (inside and outside the church), and Invitation.

• Recruiting and training all children’s Sunday school teachers.

• Overseeing the church nursery and staff in conjunction with the pastor/head of staff and HR Committee.

• Celebrating the work of the teachers with special recognition events and Teacher Commissioning services.

• Maintaining the resource closet.

• Gifting bibles to all third graders.

• Promoting and overseeing the FROGs children’s program.

• Overseeing any music programs for children (Bell Choir or Kid’s Chorus)

• Organizing and promoting vacation bible school.

• Planning the annual children’s Christmas program and party.

• Promoting Presbytery events including summer camp and Kidquake.

• Administering camp scholarships from the Williams bequest.

  • Please note the church pays half of registration fees for each youth and the full registration fee for all adult sponsors.

  • Parents can request a scholarship from Prairie Valley for their half of the registration fee no later than two weeks prior to the event through the church office.

• Providing children’s care and activities during committee night, if needed.

• Coordinating advertisements and publicity for all special events. This consists of getting information in article form to the church office in a timely manner (no less than 3 weeks prior to event) for Friday Emails, Monthly Newsletters, Weekly Bulletins, Website, Social Media, and Press Releases to North Texas e-News.

• Sponsoring and promoting opportunities to engage those outside the church.

• Encouraging the congregation to invite others to worship and other church events.

• Checking your committee mailbox weekly. Plus fill out the Expense/Reimbursement Form for any bill or invoice associated with your committee and put it in the Treasurer’s mailbox.

• Maintaining background checks for all volunteers cleared for service through the church office.