Preschool
WE ROCK: PRESCHOOL MINISTRY
Our mission is to partner with parents to lay the biblical foundation that, in God's timing, leads to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Noah's Nursery cares for ages birth through two years old, while Noah's Adventure Park cares for age two through kindergarden.
Noah's Nursery
Noah's Nursery facilitates care for ages birth through two years old. Your little ones are precious to us and great care is taken to maintain a clean and secure environment for them in the following ways:
Cleanliness
Workers wear clean smocks and shoe covers and change for each shift. Frequent hand washing is stressed and waterless hand sanitizers are supplied in each room. When a baby occupies a bed, sheets are changed and the bed is cleaned before another child can occupy the crib. All "touch surfaces" and all toys in the younger preschool area are completely disinfected after all services. Health policies posted outside each door are strictly enforced. Anyone who is ill, appears ill, or has been ill in the last 24 hours should not serve in the nursery. Any child who is sick or has fever, vomiting, diarrhea, or any contagious illness will not be accepted into a preschool room.
Safety
A national background check is run on each volunteer after they fill out their volunteer application. Willowbrook utilizes the Parent Pager system to ensure secure check-in/check-out procedures. All parents of bed babies are required to check out a pager from their child's classroom; other preschoolers' parents may check out a pager upon request at any Parent Pager check-in computer station. A video security system is installed in every preschool room, allowing parents to view their child without the child seeing them. Parents may check the monitors at any time.
Nursery Staff
Paid coordinators oversee the care of children in the baby rooms (bed babies through crawling/beginning walkers). They work along-side our volunteers to ensure consistency in care and procedures.
Diapering
All babies' diapers are changed during each service hour or more often if needed. Every baby is changed on clean, disposable paper on the changing table. All diaper-changing facilities are located in the front of the room in full view for security. All nursery workers wear gloves when changing diapers and wash their hands and use hand sanitizers before changing another baby.
Noah's Adventure Park
Noah's Adventure Park facilitates care for preschoolers age 2 through Kindergarten.
Preschool Sunday School
The Preschool Ministry serves children from birth through kindergarten. Sunday school classes are offered at 9:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Children are taught the love of Jesus through Bible stories, songs, and learning activities. Only nursery is provided for the 8:00 a.m. service.
Promiseland
An exciting kids' church experience – is offered to kindergarten and first grade children at 9:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Promiseland is taught by a team of dedicated workers who desire to see children develop a closer relationship with Jesus Christ. The Willow Creek Community Church curriculum includes Bible stories, object lessons, puppets, drama and music.
Lil' K
Lil' K is an interactive multimedia-based curriculum for preschool children offered on Sunday nights from 5:00 - 7:30. Lil'K is our chosen curriculum for Sunday night Sunday School for 3-4 and 5 year olds
Wednesdays in Preschool
Our Mission Friends and Preschool Choir classes currently rotate on a semester schedule. Music is offered on Wednesday nights from 5:45 – 7:15 p.m. in the fall, corresponding to the school system. Mission Friends is offered at the same time in the spring.
Summer Fun Day Camp is six selected Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. following our annual Vacation Bible School. A small fee is charged for Summer Fun. Dates, information and registration are on-line
