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So Blessed!

31 Jan 2010 by Helen

I get to serve with some of the most amazing people on the planet.  Kid’s ROCK volunteers serve every Sunday and overcome many obstacles while doing so.  As I reflected today on how blessed Kid’s ROCK & ROCK Church is, here are some of the things I remembered…

  • Our Wee ROCK class (2 & 3 year olds) have been short a teacher for different reasons for the past 4 weeks.  Yet every week when I talk to them after service they tell me how God blessed them and the class and they had an amazing time with the kids.
  • The teachers in our Double Take class have faithfully taken the double service kids into “Big Church” for worship every Sunday for a while now and taught them about worship.  Last week I looked around and saw many of those kids very engaged in worship along side of their leaders.
  • Our middle school and high school volunteers have really stepped up their game too.  The high school volunteers have started helping lead small groups in Club ROCK. Our middle school volunteers are faithfully helping in the nursery and younger classes.  They are doing an amazing  job.  A parent told me that their middle school son who works in the nursery told her on the way home from church last Sunday “I just love my babies!”  Wow!  It is awesome to see a generation of leaders who are being raised up to love to serve!
  • Today, even with the weather issues, we had a large number of kids.  With several teachers out because of road conditions and plenty of children to serve, everyone who was there stepped up their game…and these volunteers didn’t skip a beat!  I even had one teacher say “My husband tried everything he could to talk me out of coming, but I wasn’t gonna miss this!” 
  • A volunteer told me this week.  “I love where I’m serving, but if you need me somewhere else, or someone else can do this better, then move me where you need me!”  Man, that will rock your world when someone trust you enough to tell you that!
  • A parent got up and brought a child to first service so she could serve even though it meant the mom had to go back home and finish getting ready to come with the rest of the family for 2nd service.
  • We were short staffed in the nursery in 2nd service and they had a LOT of kids.  When I walked in to check on them, the response I got was….”We are fine.  Some of them are a little fussy, but we are making it work!”

In case you can’t tell.  I love the people I get to serve along side.  If you attend ROCK Church, you need to thank these volunteers the next time you see one of them walking around in their bright green shirts, even if you don’t have kids. You may not have kids, but someone sitting near you probably does and  these volunteers serve the kids of ROCK Church every Sunday so ALL of you can enjoy your service at ROCK Church!

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Kid’s ROCK Volunteers ROCK!

30 Aug 2009 by Helen

I am so overwhelmed with emotion I can’t decide whether to cry  or jump for joy…so I’ve done both.  We went double today and what a day!  I can’t tell you how excited I was…there was just an expectancy and energy in the atmosphere that was almost uncontainable.  I felt like a kid on Christmas morning.  Not only was exciting…it went amazing!  The Kid’s ROCK volunteers stepped up to the plate and hit it out of the ballpark.  Let me give you a few snippets of what I have heard.

  • We served a total of 111 kids today not including the 3o extra kids from first service that stayed for second service.  This is about a 22% growth from our average of 89 kids on a Sunday.
  • We started 2 new classes in Kid’s ROCK and Pastor Matthew started 1 new class for ReMix kids.  These classes were designed to serve volunteer kids so they would not have to sit in the same service twice.  We had the privilege of pouring into 30 kids for not one service but two!  How incredible.
  • My daughter Courtney would not stop talking about the ReROCK class (class for volunteer kids) on the way home.  She even kept making her sister take her ear buds out to hear about what she had learned.  Rodney and Tammy Orr did an amazing job with them today!
  • I had to go make copies of materials for our ROCK Star class because we had so many children we ran out.  We had 23 kids total in that class.  We average around 14.
  • Our nursery workers blew it up today!  They started a new system which gives parents feedback on what was going on with their babies during the service!  Parents loved it!
  • Had a parent say ” I kept waiting for my number to go up on the screen but it never did!”  What incredible nursery workers!  Do you have any idea what that means to a parent who has such a desire to enter into a service and never can because they always have to go get their child.  This was their first experience at ROCK Church and they were amazed!
  • All I heard all day was how nice and friendly the Kid’s ROCK volunteers were…way to show the heart of Jesus!

I know there are so many other stories I am forgetting to tell in my exhaustion but I had to say THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU A MILLON TIMES OVER FOR EVERY Kid’s ROCK volunteer who took it to a whole nuther level!  I LOVE YOU!  Really I can’t say it enough…You Guys Are AMAZING!

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Going Double

28 Aug 2009 by Helen

Guess what?  In less than 48 hours we will have done it.  That’s right, by this time in 2 days we will have survived a monumental day in our churches history.  In about 38 hours we will start the 1st of 2 services on Sunday.  Why is this so exciting?  Why not

  1. since I started this job I feel like all I have done is prepare to go to 2 services.  It has been an exciting and sometimes a little overwhelming task for the first few months of a new job.  Though at times it has seemed difficult, I have had amazing volunteers step up, grab the vision and run with it!  I am so excited I can hardly stand it.
  2.  Double services means no children’s volunteer will ever have to miss another service.  The teacher’s that serve our children will no longer have to depend on a cd to grasp the vision and feel burnt out after as they diligently serve their  month in Kid’s ROCK with no opportunity to participate in coorporate worship.  Now they get poured into so that they are full and ready to pour into our children every week.
  3. Double services have will have a tremendous impact on our children.  Teachers will now serve every week, giving opportunity to build more consistent deep relationships with children.  There are also 2 new classes opening up for Kid’s ROCK.  Planet ROCK will be for preschool children age 2-5 and ReROCK will be for children ages 6-9.  This is for children of volunteers, since they will be attending both services.  The children will go to their regular class during 1st service and then will be taken to the Planet ROCK and ReROCK for 2nd service.  The kids will have a blast and parents can serve and attend without worrying about whether their kids are tired or bored.  (Trust me, they won’t be bored!)  Parents – get ready….your kids are gonna start begging you to volunteer so they can go to their second service.
  4. It’s just the beginning.  Somewhere along the week, it hit me!  This is just the begining.  When we reflect Monday morning about how Sunday went and we all take a deep sigh of relief.  It will only be a brief sigh because getting through Sunday doesn’t mean we have arrived, it means we have just started a new era in our church.  I once heard someone say (wish I could remember who but) God won’t send us the harvest if we aren’t ready.  Going double means we have already created room to grow 100%  easy!  Look out ROCK Church….here we go!

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Amazing Volunteers

31 Jul 2009 by Helen

Recently I have had 3 very different experiences in regards to volunteering.

The first volunteer came to the office.  Walked with me down to the classrooms, took the list and papers I had prepared for her, and got busy.  I saw her only twice after that.  Once when she came to ask me where to find something and again when she was handing me the checklist, telling me she had finished and saying goodbye.  Most people will probably never know what she did.  Most people will show up on Sunday, go to those classes, and just enjoy all she did without even realizing she did it.  What an amazing volunteer!

The second volunteer – Someone came to me saying she really want to help in Children’s Ministry.  She had seen a need the other day and knew she could serve in that capacity.    You know what it was…the need to have someone at the check-in desk to greet visitors and walk them down to their classrooms after they are checked in.  You know who it was – one of our Founding Pastors – Pastor Norma.  What an amazing volunteer!

The third volunteer was someone I watched struggle through our last meeting.  I have known this volunteer almost as long as I have been a part of  ROCK Church.  She has served faithfully and she and her husband have jumped in where ever they were needed in the church.  She told me she was really struggling with working every Sunday in her current position because it wasn’t something that came easy to her.  It was actually quite stressful for her, but she didn’t want to seem like she wasn’t doing her part.  She is getting more involved in a ministry that really is her passion but said she would be happy to be a sub!  I was so excited…not because I was losing a great volunteer, but because that volunteer was finding her true passion and place in ministry and that she was willing to still help us out when we needed it.  What an amazing volunteer!

I mean it…I feel so honored and blessed to get to serve alongside such amazing people!  In every situation I was absolutely humbled by the heart of a servant that was so evident in their lives.  Thank you Kid’s ROCK volunteers for all you do for ROCK Church!

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Amazing Volunteers!

13 Jul 2009 by Helen

Last night we had an Ordination Service at ROCK Church and I had to coordinate volunteers for Childcare.  I told them they would need to be there around 5:30 but that it would be over around 7:30 so by 8:00 they should be done.  Well, needless to say, I was wrong and things ,I’m learning, rarely go as planned.

I went down to the classrooms around 7:15 to let the teachers know we were running behind schedule and it would be a little longer.  They smiled and said “no problem”.  They didn’t get finished and cleaned up until around 9, yet not once did anyone grumble or complain.  They left smiling and saying “your welcome”.  What an amazing group of people to work with. 

Today I thought about that and realized there have been times where I have served and things didn’t go as planned and I was not as gracious or forgiving as the volunteers that served last night were.  Because of their gracious serving families were able to participate in an event that they may have missed out on otherwise.  Parent’s got to experience an amazing ordination and children got ministered to in their own special way.

Thank you volunteers for being so gracious and loving to ROCK Church and the community we live in!  I love you guys!

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