4:30pm Kids Activity Time (K.A.T) Leader OBSOLETE 2024
Role:
To facilitate activities that encourages all children attending to explore the stories of our faith tradition. To provide pastoral care to the children involved in the ministry activity.
Responsibilities:
- Liaise with Children and Families Co-ordinator before your rostered Sunday, to discuss planning and to ensure continuity for the group.
- Liaise with other 4.30pm K.A.T. leaders to ensure continuity for the group.
- Prepare for the session by reading through the resource materials provided and becoming familiar with the week’s story and background information.
- Arrive at GWUC on the Sunday afternoon with enough time to ensure that the room is prepared and set up before the start of worship.
- Greet children and their parents as they arrive at worship.
- Provide the children with opportunities to explore the Bible story through asking questions.
- Record children’s attendance in the attendance roll.
- Following the session, notify the Children and Families Co-ordinator and other leaders about any new children and anything important to note from the session, by writing in the communication book.
- Ensuring the room is packed up and tidy at the end of the session.
- Attend a planning meeting each term.
- Attend a Safe Church training session each three years, beginning in the first year of volunteering at GWUC.
Requirements:
- A commitment and passion for Children and Families ministry.
- A current Working with Children Check.
- A passion for providing children with opportunities to grow in faith towards spiritual maturity.
- Enthusiastic, keen and caring character
Commitment:
- One Sunday per school term