{"id":7623,"date":"2006-06-23T15:35:30","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T20:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=7623"},"modified":"2011-07-06T08:33:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:33:21","slug":"4986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2006\/06\/23\/4986\/","title":{"rendered":"New Children\u2019s Ministry Committee Formed"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO, IL (June 23, 2006) – A newly created committee will help churches with weekday children\u2019s ministries connect with one another and provide resources. <\/p>\n

So far, the Weekday Children\u2019s Ministry Committee has conducted two conference calls and will soon be looking for regional contacts, says leader Nancy Carlson. The committee will be an affinity group of the Evangelical Covenant Church. Other affinity groups include Covenant clergy women, youth pastors, and different ethnic pastor groups.<\/p>\n

The committee\u2019s vision statement states:<\/p>\n

The Weekday Children’s Ministry Committee envisions a support network that will help Covenant Churches establish new preschool and child care ministries and help to further equip existing ministries by making resources available through a variety of medium. The committee and other identified individuals gifted in children’s ministry will serve as points of contact for individuals and churches that provide weekday ministries. The committee’s ultimate vision is to help children and families grow deeper in Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n

The idea for the committee was developed during a \u201cround table\u201d discussion at the 2004 Covenant Annual Meeting. Following that meeting and another in 2005, Carlson and Steve Burger, Covenant director of children\u2019s ministries, developed a three-pronged approach to meet the needs of people working in weekday ministries:<\/p>\n