FAQ - Family Life Center project
How would the new Family Life Center benefit our Children and Family Ministries department?

While the CFM (Children and Family Ministries) staff cannot give a moment by moment schedule
of how they will use the facility (as it changes from week to week, sometimes) they do know
what having the new building would mean to them...

The new building will mostly house Youth activities, offices, and one "flex" room.
But, because the Youth will have a new space to call their own, it will free up the room
they are currently using (room 8) for use by Children's Ministries.

We are really looking forward to having a room dedicated to our ministry!

It is ideal for us because:
• It is conveniently located next to our Resource Room/Office
• It is easy to find for parents that are unfamiliar with our campus
• It is near the bathrooms (key for ministering to children!)
• It already has the audio-video equipment installed that we use on a weekly basis
    - freeing us from having to set it up each Sunday morning
• The size and flooring is already appropriate for our use in ministry
• It will allow us to be in the same room for both hours on Sunday morning
    (right now we switch between 2 rooms, needing to reset-up for both hours)

While David Frederick will coordinate the major use of the new building for Youth activities,
we will be able to schedule with him to be able to use the new rooms for the occasional ministry needs
that Children's Ministries has from time to time.
These will include:
• VBS space
• A new children's discipleship class that we have wanted to plan but have no space for
• Additional space for Mad Friday activities including:
    - perhaps a new elective choice
    - room to move childcare and youth tables from the Fellowship Hall
    - allowing us to take more children into the program
• A place to have recreation when it rains
• The opportunity to do more "out of the box" thinking when we plan the program
• The opportunity to start to think about beginning new ministries for parents
     that can take place while children and youth ministries are happening concurrently

These are the most immediate ways that a new building will impact the CFM ministry.
Of course, we will think of more as the vision becomes a reality and we are able to utilize the new space.
This doesn't even address the benefit to Adult Ministries who will gain space to have bible studies,
committee meetings and classes as our facility is reconfigured. It would be great to not have classes
that have to be interrupted in the Fellowship Hall!

We hope that this list can answer some of the questions that have been raised.
This new space would benefit our ministry in many ways, and we support it.