Serving
SERVING OPPORTUNITIES
- Small Group Leaders -- Build relationships with children and parents. Help children apply a weekly lesson to their life.
- Large Group Leaders -- Creatively teach the greatest story ever told to a select age group.
- Greeters -- Assist parents and children with registration one service a month.
- Tech Team -- Assist with the sound, lights, and projection for Preschool, Elementary and Merge one weekend a month.
- Creative Communicators -- Actors, singers, writers to provide support for Large Group Leaders.
- Administrative Help -- Have a heart for children's ministry but uncomfortable around children or need a break from them? Help behind the scenes with the vitally important details.
COMPONENTS OF THE PROGRAM
Everyone desiring to work in Harvestland, whether paid staff or volunteer, goes through the Child Protection process. Our program has three components: screening, training, and supervision.
SCREENING
Protection screening includes one or more of the following: application, reference checks, personal interview and background check. Not all serving positions require all of the above screening steps. Your ministry contact will know which steps need to be taken to protect you and the minors you will be working with.
- Application: Designed to begin to get to know you better. Choose either a one-time serving application or and on-going serving application.
- Reference Checks: Conducted so we can hear from the people who you've said know you best.
- Personal Interview: Held to ensure the right serving position for your experiences, gifts and passions.
- Background Check: Requested for:
- All staff who work around minors
- Volunteer positions involving specific situations
- Special circumstances
TRAINING
Our training class is for all people who serve around minors on a regular basis. The purpose of this class is to raise awareness of child abuse issues and to cover things to do and not do during ministry work.
SUPERVISION
This occurs during the time that your ministry is doing what it is called to do. Supervision is done primarily by staff and coaches in the area, but we all have a role in keeping one another accountable. The goal is to ensure that the interactions taking place between leaders, adults and minors are appropriate and above reproach. Supervision takes place for the protection of the children and students, as well as for the leaders and adults.
The Child Protection Program At Hope EFC
