Boards of the Church Map to Fourth Church Visiting Youth Group Info Fourth Connect / Login • Worship This Week Prayers of the People Academy for Faith and Life Center for Life and Learning Children (infants to grade 5) Worship Bags for Children Volunteer with Our Youth Music and the Arts On Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., child care for infants through two-year-olds is provided in the Nursery on the first floor of the Gratz Center. The Hospitality Suite on the second floor is also available as a Comfort Room for parents and infants. Please see an usher on Sunday for directions. For more information about nursery care, contact Matt Helms, Associate Pastor for Children and Family Ministry (312.573.3362).The Hongodai Christ Church School & Nursery is a complex of church school (2nd floor) and nursery (1st floor) administered by Protestant Christ church. The premises are located at a greenery area in Yokohama city surrounded by fields, parks and hills in the neighborhood.

It has been planned in the open space such that places for children to stay are mixed into forest with rich natural environment. This school is a mixture of indoor and outdoor environments. Takeshi Hosaka Architects selected wooden construction as the ideal for children from infant to senior in high school to stay. In a simple grid building, steel frames are adopted to five courtyards to bear earthquake load. Since pillars of solid steel are fit between wooden pillar and sash, their existence is successfully eliminated without any sense of discomfort while they are exposed without being hidden.Brown Jordan Outdoor Furniture Umbrellas A glass sliding door is equipped at the interface between indoor and outdoor area. Hardwood Flooring Showrooms SeattleLight falls and spreads into the building through the trees and winds from the forest run through the building. Dolphin Shower Head

It is possible for children to spend their time both at indoor space where they feel as if they were in the forest and at outdoor area where they also feel as if they belong to the building. School children go to each classroom after holding morning service in the hall at second floor. They take classes in sunlight falling through the trees and read books in the forest. Children in nursery freely run around from indoor to outdoor while taking a nap with comfort brought by forest wind. The building has been built by trying to figure out a new concept for building establishments in forests.Times Available: Sunday Mornings 9:30am - 10:45am & 11:15am - 12:30pm 1. Diaper bag with disposable diapers. We do have extras if needed. 2. Pacifier or other items that will help calm them. 3. We suggest a change of clothing for those "just in case moments"! 4. A bottle of milk, formula, juice or water. We operate a well-baby program. For the protection of all the children in our ministry we cannot accept a child with an excessively runny nose, fresh cold (four days or less), fever, rash, persistent cough, diarrhea or any other signs of illness.

We request that you not place your child in the program while they are at risk of exposing other children. Thank you in advance for helping us keep our program a healthy place for all. We will be open for use 15 minutes before the 1st service and available 15 after the 1st service. Sign in your child at the registration desk. If you are a new family, please fill out a family registration form and give it to the nursery leader as you drop your child off. Give any special instructions to the leader who greets you and the diaper bag with the things listed above within it. It will have specific areas for the various stages of development – babies, crawlers, walkers etc. Each of our volunteers has had a police background security check to ensure the highest integrity. Parents are encouraged to team up together for nursery duty. Talk to one of the greeters to sign up/enlist and receive a security clearance form. Snacks are provided for your children. These are nut free and consist of things such as cheerio’s, crackers and digestible cookies. 

Please inform the nursery volunteers of any special instructions regarding allergies. Sign out your child at the registration desk and go into the nursery to pick your child up.  It would help our leader if the same parent that drops the child off could pick them up to help us keep track of parents and children.Child playing with blocks in nursery. The nursery in a church is a room in the church building set aside for childcare for youngest members of the congregation, usually infants through age four. The nursery of a church should be a warm, welcoming place where parents feel safe dropping off their little ones while they attend services and classes in the church. Keeping a church nursery organized and tidy is important to ensure the safety of the children, as well as to streamline the work the volunteers need to perform. Obtain the necessary cleaning supplies. This may include surface disinfectant, a large vacuum cleaner, a a handheld vacuum, and plenty of paper towels. Clean and disinfect the nursery.

You can't organize dirty or cluttered areas; cleaning and disinfecting the entire area will provide a solid foundation to your organizational efforts. Vacuum all area rugs and carpeting, ensuring that you don't use perfumed carpet cleaner, which may cause allergies in sensitive children. Disinfect all the toys, even the new ones. Hygiene is especially important in any diaper-changing and food-serving areas. The church may want to solicit donations of cleaning supplies from its congregation toward this effort, and you can enlist the help of other members of the congregation. Divide the room into sections. The kinds of sections depend on the makeup of your church nursery. If the nursery room is for just one age group, such as preschoolers, toddlers or infants, divide the room into age-appropriate play spaces. Bright shelves lined with colorful Bible story books, kitchen sets, plush toy areas and creative surfaces make ideal stations for play and learning. Most church nurseries provide Bible studies even for its youngest members, so include a large area rug or space to sit with the children and read the day's lessons.

If your nursery contains more than one age group, divide the room with room dividers and play gates, so that younger children don't interrupt the activities of the older children, and the older kids don't trample the little ones. Display the name tag system that many churches have for adults dropping off their children in the nursery in a prominent place. When the parent checks his child into the nursery, you or another volunteer should hand him his child's name tag plucked from some type of indexing system, bulletin board or wall hanging. New parents must fill out a form with all their contact and emergency information before leaving their children. The church keeps this information on file, sometimes in the nursery itself. Design a cubby or bin system for the children's belongings. You can purchase cubby or bin systems at any teacher or office supply store, taking space and budget limitations into consideration. Put this system near the front door for easy organization as the children arrive.

If possible, personalize the cubbies or bins with the names of children who regularly attend the nursery for easy and quick access week after week. Add child-friendly Bible story stickers, such as Noah's Ark or Jonah and the Whale, to decorate the surfaces. Ask parents to label all their children's belongings before placing them into the cubbies for more seamless pickups. Childproof the nursery thoroughly. Cover all electrical outlets. Ensure that all toys are age-appropriate and remove any choking hazards. Hide electrical cords behind furniture, under area rugs or carpeting, or staple them to the wall with insulated staples. Put child-proof locks on any cabinet doors with toxic cleaning supplies. If the nursery requires any repairs, make them before admitting any children in the area. Enlist the help of any skilled members of the congregation for the more labor-intensive or technical jobs. Check that the nursery has functioning fire alarms. If not, contact the church and have the church administration address this issue.

Designate a space for non-perishable snacks, drinks and snack supplies. A church nursery may be responsible for a child for several hours as her parents attend both a Bible study and a worship service, so it may provide a drink and a light snack. Arrange the diaper and hygiene supplies. This should include generous supplies of diapers of a variety of sizes, several boxes of baby wipes, diaper rash ointment, and stickers that read "I'm Changed!" If you can't find these stickers, which teacher supply stores sell pre-printed, make them up beforehand with a permanent marker and small blank stickers purchased at an office supply store. Other useful supplies may include facial tissue, toilet paper in bulk if you have potty-trained children and a privately accessible bathroom, and plenty of plastic bags in which to keep and store soiled clothing. This is also where you should keep any first aid supplies and first aid kits. These can be significant expenses, so a church may ask its members to donate supplies or assume responsibility for restocking a specific item, such as wipes or toilet paper, throughout the year.