Each child will be changed at least once during each service. If they attend Sunday School, they will be changed during both the Sunday School and worship time. Please make sure you provide enough diapers.
We ask each parent to complete an instruction form and keep it in your baby bag. This enables us to know of your specific instructions for feeding and other areas of care, such as food allergies. We attempt to follow your instructions to the best of our ability.
If your child becomes inconsolable during the service, you will be contacted either in person or during the worship service by the numerical display box. Your child will be assigned a number upon registering in the nusery. In the event you are needed that number will appear on the display box. A display box is located above each of the doors to the side of the stage area.
Our nursery volunteers are adults and teens( 9th grade and up). Teens are assigned positions with adult supervision. Should you ever find your child left alone with a teen, please notify the church office. We attempt to make every effort to assure this does not occur.
It is a good idea to send a change of clothes even for two and three year olds. Accidents happen and it is good to have a change for them.
Security Measures
Please coorperate with us in the following security system of signing your children in and out each time you attend. This insures that you and only you will be able to pick up your child. It is NOT our policy to allow children to pick up their siblings. Adults wihout tags will not be given your child. If you have someone else beside yourself you want to pick up your child you need to give that information to a worker in writing and give the person to pick up your child the tag.
1. Always sign you child in and get a tag with your number on it.
2. Label all of your children's belongings. This helps us be certain that only your child will get what is in his/her bag.
3. We ask that only one parent drop off and pick up the child. This eliminates crowding in the hallway.
4. It is extremely helpful if you do not visit your child between services. One goodbye per stay is more than enough for a young child to have.
5. Please come and pick up your child as soon as the service is over. Children who see other children's parents coming for their children often get anxious for their parents.
6. Complete a baby care card for each service and place it in the diaper bag.. This will help eliminate confusion about specific instructions for your child.
7. NEVER bring a sick child to the nursery. We take every precaution to keep our children healthy and the environment as germ free as possible. Please follow the 24 hour rule if your child has had a fever. Wait 24 hours after your child's fever has broken before bringing your child out in a public setting.