Horizons Nursery & Toddlers! - Jill Knox

Looking forward to 2013! The past year in the nursery/toddler rooms have been full of love and fun! I am lucky to be able to spend time with the littlest of Horizon's kids...your kids. I can't tell you how fun it is to get to watch them for an hour each week and see them grow and learn in God. We don't always make it over for the Bible lesson with the "big" kids but even when we don't, have no doubt, there is plenty of God's love going on in these rooms.  Just this past Sunday, we were a small group so were able to go with the big preschoolers to talk about the Bible. As always, we close our discussion with a prayer. I sometimes forget that even the smallest of God's children have something to say...one of the youngest kids (with help from big sister) said our closing prayer! How sweet is that, I had never heard him talk before which made it all the more surprising. I love God's gentle reminders...don't count out the little ones!

I have been working in the infant/toddler area going on two years and guess what...I'm the NEW one. The group of volunteers that are there each week are so dedicated and I can see the fun they have in taking care of your little ones for that hour. In addition to the grown up volunteers, my boys love to help out. I was initially hesitant to let them stay thinking they had something else in mind but I've since learned, they genuinely want to stay and help out. They love playing with the kids and my 8 year old said to me recently "mom, did you know that babies can teach big kids and grown-ups things"? He and I had a long discussion about this and how cool it is that God is at work all the time teaching us right alongside these kids. 

We had a busy December...trying to learn the songs for "big church", making Christmas trees from sugar cones, hearing the story about Jesus' birth and playing of course. I can't wait to see what 2013 has in store. I pray that we continue to see growth in the church because it is a blessing to see these little faces each week. They are so excited to come in and we LOVE to have them! See you soon!

-Jill Knox