Family Ministry

Wherever you are in your faith journey, we would love to walk alongside you. This is why our ministries from birth through college age are on one team: Family Ministry. Each department – Preschool, Children, and Students – offers specialized, age-appropriate guidance in this unified structure. We want to help children and students at St. Andrew feel Christ's love, find a spiritual home, and explore God's calling in their lives.

Faith At Home

In the physical absence of church ministry leaders, we know that greater responsibility falls on families to guide children and students in their faith.

Faith at Home helps families on their faith journeys with daily, age-appropriate activities aligning with our sermon series.

Families can follow the activity sheets, which offer daily activities, Monday through Saturday, for the early childhood, elementary (K-5), and student (6th-12th grade) age groups.

Sheets will relate to the weekly themes of our sermon series "The Good News of Matthew," which runs June 7 through August 9.

Activity Sheets:

Updated Family Ministry Summer Camp Information Due to Covid-19:

Children's Ministry :

Summer Camp Information Updated May 15, 2020:
VBS-at-home experience July 13-17th, 2020

Our 5 day experience blends technology and hands-on learning to maximize your families VBS-at-home experience at any time of the day beginning Monday July, 13, 2020.

Each day of VBS our amazing St. Andrew tech team will be bringing your favorite VBS personalities to your home though our website. 

• Sing and Play Express: Prepare for the day’s adventure by singing fun songs and meeting adventurous Bible Memory Buddies.
  Bible Adventures: Experience the Bible Story in your own home and using your Bible Book.
• Imagination Station: Dig into surprising and authentic discoveries using your hands on learning kit.
• Sing & Play Music: Join Ms. Sarah and friends as she teaches rhythms, words and motions some of our great songs.
• Kid Vid Cinema: Hear about a real kid living out their faith in really cool way each day. 

Even though we can’t be face to face, each participant will receive their very own Rocky Railway Hands on Learning Kit that contains everything they will need to have a safe experience. 

Each Kit Includes:

• Rocky Railway Participant T-Shirt
• Music Download with 10 amazing songs
• Tracking with Jesus Bible Book or Little Kids Bible Pack (preschool)
• 5 Bible Memory Buddies with carabiner clip

5 Imagination Station Gizmos 
Do you have a rising 5th grader? We are excited to offer additional material for our VBXers this year to bring them an engaging mission component to their experience! More information will be announced soon. 

Do you have a preschooler that wants to be included? We have created a preschool pack just for them. Their hands on kit will include:

A Little Kids Bible Pack in place of the Tracking with Jesus Bible Book
2 preschool friendly Imagination Station Gizmos (different than elementary). 
 

If you have already registered for VBS, great! You do not need to re-register for this new blended experience. However, we understand that the change of dates will also change your availability for a camp, please cancel your registration in realm and we will refund your registration by June 8, 2020. If you do not submit cancel by that time and are not able to attend the July date we will add it as a donation to VBS. 

If you would like to register ($35 per child, until we run out of at home kits) you can click here

Science Camp, St. Andrew Fine Arts Camp, and Summer Fun Days have been discontinued for summer 2020. 

Refunds will be automatic and sent back to the form that it was received within the next 30 days.  

Student Ministry Updates:

In the midst of the uncertain times that we are in, we are having to change up our plans for our annual summer Mission Trip. We will not be going to Kansas City for the High School trip or the C2K House in Dallas for the Middle School trip. We are hoping to still do some sort of service work in the summer, whether a weekly local service project for students, or even a short overnight local mission trip if it is viable to do so. As information unfolds in the upcoming month we will be sure to communicate with you all what is available to us.  

We know that a lot of fun trips and events have been cancelled due to Covid-19 for your kids and we would love for the church summer trips that they look so forward to, to still be able to happen in some form.  

Due to Mission Trip having to be changed, we are hoping to go all out for Camp Impact and make it an even more fun and powerful week for the students. It is currently scheduled to be July 22-26, but one idea that we are working with Collin County Adventure Camp on is to possibly make camp longer. Obviously there are a lot of unknowns about the next few months, but we would love to expand this week so that your kids feel even more loved on and even more connected to their church family. 

In this new time, we recognize that we might have more adjustments to camps and programming. We will continue to keep you abreast of changes as they happen via email, our website and social media. 

Michael Agnew

Student Ministry Director

Learn more about ministries at each age group:

Preschool

Preschoolers enter our doors and instantly experience God's love through care and nurturing.

Children's

Children begin to deepen their faith, make new friends in their faith family, and explore wisdom in their choices.

Students

Students take ownership of their faith, as they find a home at St. Andrew where they feel a belonging and purpose.

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Here With You

Our Family Ministry includes our St. Andrew Preschool, Children's, and Students departments, cohesively leading children and students on their faith journeys.  We provide specialized, age-specific guidance, as well as parent resources.