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Uptown Kids is thrilled to offer a graduated, limited,
in-person nursery.
We will be opening on Sunday, October 4 for babies from 6 weeks through 2 years. For now, the 9:00 service only. Please see our guidelines, safety protocols and registration information.
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All subject to change, as is the new normal these days.
We are watching government and health recommendations daily.
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Please consider volunteering to help.
We won't have a nursery without covenant partners serving the body. Each week the number of children we allow will depend on number of volunteers!
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This Month in
Uptown Kids Ministry:
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Check out our new website!
In addition to a fabulous new church website, the
All our resources. In one place.
We are so excited!
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Parents! Kids!
Bring your Uptown Kids drawstring bags if you're coming to church these days. Bring your Bible, a notebook, or a coloring book... maybe some Lego figures?
And each week we have these --> green bags in the narthex with a coloring page, some crayons, maybe something else to keep you a little busy.
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Let's celebrate all the birthdays this month! |
Pepe Ali
Grace Andrews
Caroline Blandford
Yates Brisley
Hank Collins
Jay Douglas
Joshua Holmes
Benjamin Huggins
Jack Louis
Ella McNamee
Caleb Morris
Pilgrim Robinson
Nicholas Smilari
Elizabeth Trapp
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Our team has put together a monthly Prayer Calendar.
There is great blessing and unity in bringing our needs
and requests to our Father. Together.
Print it out, put it on your fridge or mirror, and pray with us for our children, our city, and the world.
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Even with our limited nursery opening, we will still provide the cafe space with live streaming/video feed if that's more to your comfort level... Or if the nursery we are able to provide fills up and you still would like a place where your little ones can move a bit more, make a bit more noise.
Please continue to adhere to social distancing in this space.
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One of my favorite Christian authors said this: "Biographies have shaped my Christian walk more than any other genre. To read stories of faith lived out in the midst of life’s difficulties and struggles always inspires and encourages me."
Everyone a Child Should Know, with a different historical person highlighted each week of the year, introduces children to the lives of missionaries, martyrs, writers, reformers, politicians and poets.
Comes highly recommended by a wise mama I know.
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What a privilege to walk through life's challenges with our kids. The pandemic has reminded us all that this world is not our home, and there are very real things that can produce anxiety in our lives.
From the publisher's description, Zoe's Hiding Place "invites children to remember that the Lord is near when they are anxious."
He is indeed.
Also includes tear-off "back pocket verses" (maybe for us, too?)
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You may be asking yourself, “What can Classical composer Franz Haydn teach me today?”
Ok, of course you’re not. But on a day when the news had me down, I read this:
“[Haydn] saw beyond the momentary excitement of violently changing the present political, religious, and educational systems without putting into the void a real base, found only in true Christianity… [He] accepted his life, hard as it was at times, and found it good. He recognized there are fresh possibilities ahead for those willing to be builders in life rather than destroyers.” (Smith and Carlson. The Gift of Music. 1978)
While the world seems filled right now with tearing down, I find myself asking, “How can we be builders?” Builders of community, workers in the harvest, teachers of the Truth. When so much around us is about maligning and mudslinging, as brothers and sisters in Christ and His ambassadors in a broken world, what if we committed to speaking “only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear…Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” (Eph 4:29.32) Oh, how I desire that to be what I model daily for my kids!
Easier said than done, I know. Counter-culture, to be sure. But we’re in it together.
(Going to try to listen to some Haydn now to see if it helps.)
We love you. We love your kids. Reach out if we can serve you.
Love, Ashley
(for Uptown Kids)
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