March Theme: Love

Hey Parents! 

This March in Elementary RidgeRunners, we're learning Jesus's commandments to love God and to love our neighbors as ourselves. Our Li'l RidgeRunners theme is "It is finished!" and we'll be learning how Jesus showed his love for everyone when

he died on the cross to take our sins.

Children's Rooms

Check-in for all ages will be at the kiosks just inside the RidgeRunners entrance doors.

Elementary RidgeRunners (K-5th) enter to the right of the check-in area. Li'l RidgeRunners (Infant-Pre-K5) head down the hallway past the Elementary room to the left. Toddlers are straight ahead. Take a right turn for Pre-K and a left turn for Infants. Infants and Toddlers will share the Toddler Room for the 9:30 service.

How check-in works:

  1. Accept your invite and sign up for Realm Connect. (If you have not received an invite to Realm, please email clay@theridgecolumbus.com and request to be added.)
  2. Request to join the appropriate groups for your kids within the Connect app (ex. 2nd grade, toddlers, etc.).
  3. Sign in via the app on your way to church on Sunday, and use the QR code to print your name tags when you arrive.
  4. Alternately, sign in and print name tags at one of several laptop or tablet kiosks when you arrive. You will see the RidgeRunners logo on the doors to the check-in station.
  5. Escort your kids to their rooms by following the signage and moving through the children's area hallways in a counter-clockwise direction.
  6. Pick up kids after the service by entering and exiting the hallways in the same counter-clockwise fashion. When picking up kids from the Elementary RidgeRunners room, please proceed all the way into the room from the check-in area and exit through either the door to the back hallway or through the doors to the parking lot. Please avoid heading back through the check-in area so that we can avoid over-crowding in the front hallway.
  7. Online

If you're looking for some more online options for children's programming check out: Rightnowmedia.org: This is a free video resource for our church. Check out the kids' section (VeggieTales, etc.) and watch with the family! Registration link: click here.

Car Talk:

*How can we show God and others that we love God with all our heart?
*When should we love others? (All the time. We should always care.)
*We should love others even when it's hard, like when something's not fair or when we don't like someone very much.

Memory Verse:

“‘Love the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first 
and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your
neighbor as yourself.’” Matthew 22:37–39