Safe Haven Child Care Ministry
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Kathy Barnes, a member of Trinity since 1988, was instrumental in helping us open Safe Haven in 1996. They care for children ages 15 months through ten years old. They are registered with the State Board of Education as a Child Care Ministry. Since opening they have cared for hundreds of children. They are open fifty two week of the year, and during the school year they also provide preschool as an included benefit. The preschool uses the A-Beka Curriculum to ensure that every child is receiving age appropriate opportunities to be prepared for kindergarten. They are a member of the Child and Adult Care Food Program, which ensures that each child is fed according to state guidelines for nutrition and sanitation.
Our children spend the majority of their young lives in the classroom. Many Christian parents take advantage of the opportunities offered by a Christian school to help train their child up in the way that he or she should go (Proverbs 22:6).
It is exciting to know that there are 923 Assemblies of God/Association of Christian Teachers and Schools (ACTS) sponsored day schools and childcare centers within the United States. Christian teachers have approximately 1260 instructional contact hours per year in a day school and over 2,000 in a childcare center. This allows a tremendous amount of direct Christian discipleship and evangelism to occur in this school system.
Private education accounts for 118,296 students within Assemblies of God/ACTS schools. According to the most current statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), approximately 10% of all U.S. students are educated in private schools. Between now and 2014, the number of students in private schools is expected to continue to increase by 5%.
