Adults relating to kids (ark)

•      Low self-esteem is the root cause of adolescent violence, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, and gang activity. If a young person does not feel good about himself, he will “cave in” to the coercion of his peers in hopes of winning the approval and acceptance of others.
•      New, ground-breaking research provides us a new paradigm for understanding how healthy self-esteem is generated in children. This research shows the essential connection between a child’s sense of self-esteem and the quality of his relationships with the primary adults (parents, teachers, Sunday School teachers, etc.) in his life.
•      When a child is loved for who she is rather than for what she does, she is enabled to value herself in spite of her imperfections. This gift of unconditional love is an adult’s greatest contribution to the life of a child. In providing unconditional love to our kids, the world’s greatest delivery system is the Christian faith.
•      The ARK (Adults Relating to Kids) Program helps adults to become vessels through whom the unconditional love of God revealed through Jesus Christ is poured into the lives of our children.

•   Meet once a week for one hour for eleven weeks.
•   Equip adults to give God’s unconditional love, revealed through Jesus Christ, to their children.
•   Help group members learn how to discipline children with love.
•   Enable members to develop “love-based” relationships rather than “fear-based” relationships with their kids.