Open House Parent Night hosted a Kids For Christ Club Sign up table along with sign up tables for Other Clubs. Two Parents helped students at this site.
SIMPLE
STEPS How
to start a Kids for Christ Before School Bible Club
CONSIDER THE TIME:
You will want to be sure you can give the time to being involved in a club. The clubs are designed to take up very little time.
Time investment is usually one hour or less per week Time actually on site at the school is 30-45 min. one morning per week.
Normally finished before schools starts normally that is close to or at 8 am. (Depends upon school start time.)
The average is meetings per year is 25 - 30..
There will be a few additional days at the beginning of the year to organize and get ready with t-shirts, Bibles, object lesson orders & planning.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT:
You can expect a great response. It may start small but students will quickly spread the word about the meetings and there will be growth. The clubs experience phenomenal participation, averaging 60-75% of the student body enrollment. It is all completely Voluntary! They want to come. It's normal for students to begin asking about Kids for Christ club as soon as school starts. Some administrators like to settle in to the routines and get the school year underway and sailing smoothly before starting Club meetings of any sort.
One School had 260 kids in the weekly program. Another school had an pre-existing Christian club and its leaders switched to Kids for Christ format in Dec. 2013 had 150 students sign up out of 487 in the 1st 6 weeks. A small rural school began a new club, and had 60 students of 280 total Student body enrollment in 6 weeks. and a second rural school with just 88 Pre-K through 8th grade had 40 students enrolled in the K-5th grade program. 40% of the kids in one school do not attend church and enjoy the teaching they receive in the Club. You can expect to have great response. Student leaders will develop leadership skills that will be a help to them in their future. Most schools swell to over 100 students quickly.
Step 1 PRAY!!
Step 2 Contact School Administrator/Principal
Step 3 Get Set Up
Step 4 FULL LAUNCH
The 1st start up meeting for the full K-5th will just be a orientation meeting. You will welcome them. Tell them what they can expect when being part of Kids for Christ. You will tell them how they can join. Give them the Permission slips and T-Shirt order forms to take home. Give them a welcome gift. There are more detailed instructions in the handbook.
You will want to know how to manage a group of students. The How To Start a Club Handbook download will give you meeting structures that will help you. You can recruit help to do the orientation meetings with you. You may invite people as guests to come to share during meetings. They may use various visual methods and art forms like puppetry and object lessons.
You will want to practice lessons and can invite other 5th grade students to take turns leading the lessons. This and more is available in the How To Start a Club Handbook download.
LEADERSHIP TRAINING:
The launch is as simple as described. But, there are more skills you will want to have practiced before you begin. Find them in the How to Start Handbook.
CONSIDER THE TIME:
You will want to be sure you can give the time to being involved in a club. The clubs are designed to take up very little time.
Time investment is usually one hour or less per week Time actually on site at the school is 30-45 min. one morning per week.
Normally finished before schools starts normally that is close to or at 8 am. (Depends upon school start time.)
The average is meetings per year is 25 - 30..
There will be a few additional days at the beginning of the year to organize and get ready with t-shirts, Bibles, object lesson orders & planning.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT:
You can expect a great response. It may start small but students will quickly spread the word about the meetings and there will be growth. The clubs experience phenomenal participation, averaging 60-75% of the student body enrollment. It is all completely Voluntary! They want to come. It's normal for students to begin asking about Kids for Christ club as soon as school starts. Some administrators like to settle in to the routines and get the school year underway and sailing smoothly before starting Club meetings of any sort.
One School had 260 kids in the weekly program. Another school had an pre-existing Christian club and its leaders switched to Kids for Christ format in Dec. 2013 had 150 students sign up out of 487 in the 1st 6 weeks. A small rural school began a new club, and had 60 students of 280 total Student body enrollment in 6 weeks. and a second rural school with just 88 Pre-K through 8th grade had 40 students enrolled in the K-5th grade program. 40% of the kids in one school do not attend church and enjoy the teaching they receive in the Club. You can expect to have great response. Student leaders will develop leadership skills that will be a help to them in their future. Most schools swell to over 100 students quickly.
Step 1 PRAY!!
- Then Get Familiar with the program format by reading the handbook.
Step 2 Contact School Administrator/Principal
- Student(s) send a letter of request to the School Principal/Administrator. The letter should include details of the club like meeting times and who you have in mind to help you. The Principal will need information about the Club. You can send that to them when you request permission to start a before school Bible Club program on campus.
- When permission is given you can move forward to STEP #3 Get set up.
- The Club can receive public exposure along with other clubs at Open House Parent night events.
Step 3 Get Set Up
- Meet with the school staff that you will be required to interact with. Such as the school Secretary, Bookkeeper, & school approved volunteer sponsors.
- Get school bell times, sign in procedures, meeting room.
- Ask for permission to hold start up meetings. The first two meetings will be informational to the students who accept the invitations to come and listen. They will be invited to join. That is when they will receive a Kids for Christ Permission form, Bible & T-shirt order form. They can be handed to all students K-5
- Get instructions from School Bookkeeper & set up a Club Account
- Give 2 weeks to get forms back . Once the initial form deadline is met only students with signed permission forms may attend club meetings. Students may receive and return permission forms all year.
- Ask school bookkeeper about procedures for ordering t-shirts, object lesson incentives & Bibles
- Hold 1-2 5th grade orientation meetings with only 5th grade students to train them in how to manage the students that will attend.
Step 4 FULL LAUNCH
The 1st start up meeting for the full K-5th will just be a orientation meeting. You will welcome them. Tell them what they can expect when being part of Kids for Christ. You will tell them how they can join. Give them the Permission slips and T-Shirt order forms to take home. Give them a welcome gift. There are more detailed instructions in the handbook.
You will want to know how to manage a group of students. The How To Start a Club Handbook download will give you meeting structures that will help you. You can recruit help to do the orientation meetings with you. You may invite people as guests to come to share during meetings. They may use various visual methods and art forms like puppetry and object lessons.
You will want to practice lessons and can invite other 5th grade students to take turns leading the lessons. This and more is available in the How To Start a Club Handbook download.
- Have school announce meeting time & day
- Go to school and hold the first meeting
- Have the office call 5th Grade Kids for Christ Students to the room.
- Meet with 5th graders 15 min before
- Do a devotion with them
- Prayer Circle
- Ask for volunteers for helper assignments. (We take turns)
- Get Music Player & turn on song
- Lead opening Prayer
- Put items to give away in baskets
- Row Monitors stand in the positions that mark the rows
- Ask the office to make the announcement:
- Door Greeters open doors, close at a specific time after students can be expected to arrive
- Clean up any discarded paper & debris
- Begin the year with 10 commandment picture lessons
- Release students by grade to go to school 5 minutes before school starts. Start with the youngest grade first. They MUST be released in time to be at classes when bell rings.
LEADERSHIP TRAINING:
The launch is as simple as described. But, there are more skills you will want to have practiced before you begin. Find them in the How to Start Handbook.