Catching the Fire
About Catching the Fire
Catching the Fire is a ministry dedicated to teaching and positively influencing the future of the church - our kids! We want to teach the next generation the truths of the Bible in a fun and understandable way. By incorporating games, Bible stories, discussion questions, and object lessons, we make learning about God simple while still teaching the truths found in the Bible.
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Catching the Fire classes are for students from age 0 - 5th grade and are split as shown below:
Kindling the Fire: Nursery (age 0 - 4 years)
Sparks: age 3 - Kindergarten (merged with Kindling the Fire and Ignite at the moment)
Ignite: age 5 - 5th grade
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All Catching the Fire classes EXCEPT for Kindling the Fire and Sparks join the adults for praise and worship in the sanctuary, are dismissed to their classes after worship, and return to the sanctuary in time to participate in the prayer and response portion of service. We believe that our kids can and should learn these things by watching and observing others, as well as participating.
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While teaching in the church is valuable and important, we also believe that we are partners with the child's biggest spiritual influence -- their parents. We want to do our best to help equip parents to solidify the things that are taught to their kids at church. We can do this by providing the weekly memory verse, sticky statement, and main idea from each service to be studied at home.
Meet The Pastor
Pastor Rachel Jumper
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Pastor Rachel is in charge of Catching the Fire class training, recruiting, and teaching. She is the head over the Kindling the Fire and Ignite classes.
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Pastor Rachel has been involved in Connection Pointe's Children's Ministry since 2006. She began as a nursery worker, then moved into leading the preschool ministry. She began working with the elementary age class in 2013, and took over as the Children's Pastor in 2015.
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Pastor Rachel takes great care in selecting, training, and scheduling teachers for your child's classes each week. She hopes to restart Sparks, our preschool ministry, soon. We are in the process of recruiting volunteers for this class since COVID. If you are interested in teaching children of any age the Word of God, please fill out the Nursery & Children's ministry interest form here.
