Northview Kids is dedicated to nurturing a child’s faith formation by modeling the love of Jesus and providing Bible-centered lessons. We believe in the importance of building a strong spiritual foundation, guiding kids to grow in their relationship with God. Join our team in this impactful mission!
But we need your help! There are various ways to serve with Northview Kids, whether working directly with kids is your thing, or if you’d like to greet families as they arrive at church. You can even provide security during the services. Read on for all the ways to serve the kids and families of Northview.
If you have any questions about these roles, we’d love to answer them! Contact children@northview.org.
We schedule our Serve Teams based on their schedules! Weekly, bi-weekly, and once a month – we can make sure your schedule works for you! We even have a sub team to help jump in on weekends when they can, and when we need it the most!
Our Current Needs
These roles are some of our main and most urgent roles we need filled!
Serve in a classroom!
Classroom Leaders and Helpers
As a Grade School and Preschool Classroom Leader, you play a vital role in guiding kids toward a deeper understanding of God’s Word and fostering meaningful relationships with their peers. Your leadership helps create a fun, engaging, and spiritually rich environment where kids can grow in their faith and biblical knowledge.
Classroom Leaders
- Facilitate Bible discussions, helping kids explore and apply God’s Word.
- Lead activities and games that reinforce the lesson and encourage participation.
- Foster leader and peer friendships by creating a welcoming and inclusive environment.
- Guide kids through the NV Kids Biblical Literacy Program, helping them develop Bible skills.
- Pray for and with the kids, encouraging them to grow in their relationship with Jesus.
- Model Christ’s love through patience, kindness, and a heart for discipleship.
Classroom Helpers
- Assist the leader in facilitating activities, crafts, and discussions during class time.
- Support leader as needed
Model Christ’s love through patience, kindness, and a heart for discipleship. - Pray for and with the kids, encouraging them to grow in their relationship with Jesus.
- Classroom Helpers connect with kids as they come in, and help facilitate classroom time as the Classroom Teacher leads the activity. They help children to engage during large group and small group time.
Large Group Bible Teacher
The Large Group Bible Teacher leads the Open Bible Session during their assigned service. In this role, you help kids encounter God’s Word in a way that’s engaging, creative, and age-appropriate. You’ll point children to the love of Jesus, spark curiosity, and help them grow in their understanding of who God is.
This role is a great fit for someone who enjoys teaching, leading, and encouraging kids. It’s also a space to develop your own gifts – whether that’s communication, creativity, or shepherding.
You’ll partner closely with the Northview Kids team and play an important part in shaping a welcoming, Christ-centred learning environment.
More Classroom Roles!
Nursery Supervisor
As a Nursery Supervisor, you are to create a safe, loving, and nurturing environment where babies and toddlers feel secure and parents can confidently participate in the service. In addition to the Nursery Helper roles, Supervisors:
- Partner with parents by providing a welcoming and reassuring experience.
- Connect with parents at pickup and drop off times
- Monitor, play with, and comfort babies.
Supervise snack and pick-up time!
Nursery Helpers
As a Nursery Helper, you have the special opportunity to care for the littlest ones in our church family! Your role is to Primary Responsibilities:
- Create a safe, loving, and nurturing environment where babies and toddlers feel secure and parents can confidently participate in the service by:
- Gently caring for and comforting infants and toddlers during service.
- Engage little ones with age-appropriate play, songs, and simple Bible truths.
- Ensure a clean and safe space by following hygiene and safety guidelines.
- Pray over each child, asking God to bless and guide them as they grow.
- Display God’s love through patient, joyful, and attentive care.
Imagine Supportive Care (Downes Road only)
During the Sunday morning services, the Imagine ministry serves the families of Northview who have children with special needs. Hang out with some amazing kids, supervise play, and reinforce Biblical truths in the lives of the kids. Serve in imagine or in a Northview Kids Classroom as a one on one leader!
Serve outside of a classroom!
Welcome/Registration Team
- Assist parents with finding classrooms and answer questions about upcoming events.
- Helps families with the check-in process during our weekend services.
- Stays 15 minutes into the service
- Welcome families as they check in their children and with finding classrooms and answer questions about upcoming events. Help create a warm, welcoming atmosphere as families arrive, and then head to the service!
Security/Hall Monitor
- Provides security for the Grade School and Preschool areas during the service.
- Help CM Staff Team with emergency situations.
- Monitors entrances and exits for suspicious behavior
- Ensures washroom policies are upheld
- The Hall Monitor ensures children’s safety as they go from large group session to their classrooms, and keeps an eye on and assists either the preschool/nursery area or the grade school area during the service, as well as accompanies kids to and from washrooms.
Set up and Tear Down
Our Facilities teams are what allow us to do what we do every Saturday and Sunday at East Abbotsford and Central Abbotsford. If you don’t mind coming early before the service, set up is for you! Or, if you’re happy to stick around after, tear down is the team to be on. Better yet – make it a family affair and put your kids to work. When it comes to tear down, it’s always “the more the merrier”!
Serve behind the scenes!
Weekday Ministry Prep Team
Help us during the week by setting up, tidying, and cleaning our weekend ministry spaces! Everything from doing nursery laundry, to reflling snack tubs, to refilling staplers! Serve weekly or bi-weekly, we’ll take all the help we can get!
Craft Prep Team
Help us during the week by preparing crafts for our weekend services and other projects. Cutting, counting, packing, and tracing! Show up and we’ll get crafting with you! Either come to us, or we will send you home with crafting materials!
Special Events
Throughout the year, Northview Kids hosts a variety of special events for kids and families of Northview, ranging from Family Worship Nights to Trunk or Treat. Help out with set up and take down, preparing and serving food, helping to run tech and media or help with check ins during the event!
Questions?
Email us at children@northview.org