You can feel confident leaving your child in the hands of our trained and experienced nursery team. Our Nursery Ministry provides excellent childcare in a safe and loving environment. We offer care for newborns through 2 year olds during all of our services on Sundays and Wednesday evenings.
Infant Nursery
- Is currently combined with our Walker nursery. We do have an Infant room for nursing moms located in the East coordidor.
Crawlers/Walkers Nursery
- This nursery is for children 13-24 months old. A snack (animal/graham crackers) is provided for the children unless nursery staff is informed otherwise by the parents.
2 Year Olds Nursery
- For children 24-36 months old. We have a structured Bible story time during our Sunday morning services for the 2 year olds. A snack (animal/graham crackers) is provided for the children unless nursery staff is informed otherwise by the parents.
Nursery Team
Our nursery team consists of at least one adult worker and one or more adult or youth helpers in each nursery. All nursery workers/helpers must be a Calvary member and are required to complete our Safe Haven application (link to full policy handbook). Our Preschool Director monitors the nurseries during all services to ensure proper child care and safety.
Check-In Procedures
In order for our Nursery/Preschool Team to provide your child with the best care possible, we ask for your help with the following:
- Bring diaper bag supplied with at least 2 diapers, change of clothes, a bottle/formula or food if needed, a bib, and any other special item your child might need. Please be sure to clearly label your child's diaper bag (we provide tags if needed), bottle/sippy cup, and other special items.
- We have a secure check-in procedure as you sign-in your children. If you are a visitor, please be sure we have your full information.
- Pagers are provided to all parents with babies in our Infants Nursery. Pagers are also available upon request in the Walkers and 2 Year Olds Nurseries. We do ask that parents take a pager if their child is in the process of potty-training.
- Children are only released to their parents (or guardians) at the end of services unless the parents inform the nursery staff otherwise.
Preschool: Ages 3-5yr olds
We offer three classes for children ages 3-5 yrs old during both services on Sundays. Our goal is to teach the children about our loving savior Jesus Christ through the lessons that are taught and the love shown to the children by the teachers. We have three main themes that are focused on in the week to week lessons: God made me, God loves me, and Jesus wants to be my friend forever. We bring all the kids together for the story time and then separate for the activities that support the story. There is also a worship time in each class where the kids sing together. All of the classes are studying the same lesson each week as well as the 2 yr old class, which is currently considered part of the nursery. We also teach a character study during the 2nd service each Sunday that focuses on one character trait for a month at a time. Listed below is a brief description of the ages for each class so you can determine which class your child would be in.
3 yr old Class
-This class runs all year long during both services. They have a time for activities, worship and Bible lesson.
4 yr old/young 5’s class
- This class also runs all year long during both services and is for children ages 4 and 5 yrs old. The children remain in this class up until they go to Kindergarten.
If they are going into Kindergarten, they will move to our Kindergarten class, which is part of our Elementary program, on the promotion Sunday, which is the first Sunday in September.
Illness Policy
We kindly ask that you do not put your child in the nurseries if they have experienced any of the following within 24-48hours:
- fever (higher than 100.0)
- runny nose (yellow/green)
- diarrhea
- vomiting
- pink-eye
- strep throat
- common cold symptoms
- flu symptoms
- rash of any kind
- or, any other questionable symptoms
*If your child is on an antibiotic, he/she must be on it for at least 24 hrs before coming into the nurseries.
*All nurseries are cleaned and sanitized on a regular basis to help reduce the spread of germs and illness.
Discipline
"Time-out" is used at the workers' discretion. If your child is being destructive or will not stop a behavior that is hurting another child, we will come to get your assistance. We may also come get you out of a service if your child may possibly be ill, soils his/her clothes and there are no other clothes to be used, he/she cries inconsolably for more than 15 minutes, or has been injured.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact our Preschool Director, Kristi Patrick, at 616.772.5568, or by email: k_langland@yahoo.com.
Director: Kristi Patrick