1. We share our faith with children as we help them see themselves as persons of worth.

• When we use positive reinforcement we help them to see themselves as persons of worth. “Jesus loves me this I know” make the God connection.

2. We share our faith with children when we provide opportunities for children to make choices.

• As we offer children choices which are within their ability to make, we affirm the faith God has in us, and help children learn to use this gift. Offer a prayer for the child to make a good choice. Make the God connection that we can choose to do things that make us sad or things that make us happy. God wants us to be happy.

3. We share our faith with children as we help them become better stewards of God’s creation.

• Learning rules of health and safety which helps us care for our own bodies – hand washing. Make the God connection that God wants us to take care of our bodies and be happy and healthy.
• Taking care of the earth’s resources, sharing and not hoarding more than we can use. Make the God connection that God is happy when we recycle, share food and take care of the earth.  

4. We share our faith with children when we help them practice the rule of love in all attitudes and relationships.

• How to treat one another and learn to handle disagreements, differences, and feelings, using words, kind hands. Let children help one another with boo boos, pour juice, age appropriate service/mission projects. Make the God connection that God wants us to love one another.

5. We share our faith with children as we provide opportunities for them to be involved with the natural world.

• Explore God’s world and its wonder. Bugs, weather, changing of seasons, through these they experience awe and wonder which are basic to worship. Make the God connection that God gave us all of creation: the plants, animals, ocean, earth, and sky and we must take care of it.

6. We share our faith with children as we provide opportunities for children to create instead of copy.

• God created us to love God and one another and to create expressions of that love. We encourage this creativity by providing opportunities for children to paint, sculpt, sing, dance, play, pretend, build, glue, cut with scissors and imagine. Make the God connection that God gave us our minds, hands, eyes, voices, and ears to create. .

7. We share our faith with children when we provide opportunities for them to be involved with many other people.

• The people the children come to know and experience such as teachers, other church staff, community helpers, librarian, will discover how we are all inter-dependent. Make the God connection that we are all part of God’s family and we all have special things we can do that helps others.

8. We share our faith with children as we use the language of faith in interpreting experiences.

• Use biblically based story books to share stories of faith.

9. We share our faith with children when we admit there are things we do not know but are willing to trust God for.

• We will make the God connection that we can be sure that God is always with us and wants us to be safe.

10. We share our faith with children when we live it out with them.

• We will make the God connection that God loves us and wants us to love one another.

11. We share our faith with children when we are willing to live with them, sharing the richness of everyday living, the hurts, the joy, the needs and the fulfillments offering hope in honest and open ways.

• Children learn to respond in the same ways they have seen us behave. We are not perfect creatures and we share our faith as we share our own growing pains. We will make the God connection that God loves us even we have a bad day, are angry, hurt someone, etc.
• Our loving and caring staff creates a safe and nurturing environment designed specifically for the needs of the young child.