Evangelism and spiritual formation begin in the nursery. It is in the nursery that many visitors first interact with church members and experience an outpouring of warmth and acceptance--known as radical hospitality. By building a rich, spiritually rooted ministry with infants through three year olds and with their families, our congregation establishes a faith formation pattern that continues through all age levels. Thank you for doing your part to make the nursery experience at Gowen a good one.
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We will be updating the look of nursery in the next few months, so if you visit and it looks half put together please be patient with us as we are in transformation process of making better.
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Reason #1
God is in the church nursery. This may come as a shock, but the Bible has specific promises about God’s presence when children are welcomed and loved in Jesus’ name.
Reason #2
Your service in the church nursery allows church goers to focus on worship, rather than worrying about their children. In a very real sense your ministry makes it possible for the pastor to fulfill
his ministry.
Reason #3
The first (and sometimes lasting) feelings a child will have toward church is formed in the nursery department. While not everyone agrees, I believe that a positive experience in the church nursery
is essential.
Reason #4
When you serve in the nursery, you are being entrusted with the most important (and vulnerable) members of the church family. There is no greater treasure on this side of heaven than the little ones
God has given us. You must be someone special to have a job that is so important.
Reason #5
Your service is essential for your own spiritual growth. You may have never looked at it this way, but a growing Christian is always a serving Christian. Jesus was known for putting
others first, when you serve in the church nursery you are walking in his example.
Reason #6
The church nursery is the first contact young families will have with your church. Your friendly greeting and exceptional care for their children can make a great first impression for your church. If
they don’t feel like their children are safe, they will not return – and rightly so.
Reason #7
Your service in the church nursery is a powerful opportunity for prayer. If every nursery worker would spend several minutes praying over the children in their care, imagine how God might begin to
change this coming generation. There is no better way to create an environment of spiritual nurture than to pray while you serve in the nursery.
Gowen, MI 49326
Phone: 616 200 5100
16415 Meddler Ave NE,
Sand Lake, MI 49343
Phone: 616 200 5100
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