The Safe & Caring Church Nursery

Great Book! Very informative for a new church nursery. Everything is in there you need and some you have not even thought of. Easy reading and understandable. Must have for any church nursery.

My church asked me to coordinate our nursery upgrade since the birth of my son reduced the average age of the congregation to a spritely 65. I knew our "nursery" was dated. After I read through this book (a quick read - great for a busy mom) I understood the major changes that are necessary. At first I was overwhelmed, but the book provides the guidelines and the encouragement. In fact, there are many ideas that I will adopt in our own home nursery and in the way that I teach my son about God and the Church. When I get on a project I tend to order every book on the subject. I bought several and while they are useful, this is the book that I will pass around to the other nursery volunteers and parents. Additionally, I think this book would be a suitable guide for ANY religious organization, even though it is specifically Christian.

When I revamped our church nursery program I didn't know this book existed. I wish I had! It covers all the basics and is applicable to any size program. The best part about the book is all of the comments and suggestions from church nursery coordinators from all over the country. Ideas that work in real places. I also liked the reproducible forms included in the book. There are also teaching and song suggestions in back of the book that are really helpful. I think this book will benefit any church nursery program.

The Safe and Caring Church Nursery is a wonderful resource for the nursery director or worker. I appreciated the format of the book, and the way it lead you from safety checking your church nursery equipment, to recruiting nursery workers and keeping them, to simple activities to do with your infants and toddlers. This book takes you step-by-step in planning your nursery. If you have questions about the safety of your equipment; you will find guidelines here. If you want to know how many workers to recruit per child; you will find it here. The Safe and Caring Church Nursery is warm and friendly in tone. With encouragement, the author leads you down the road of building a successful nursery program. As the director of nurseries in a growing church, I feel much more confident in how to operate our church nurseries. The first week after reading this book, I began implementing some of the suggested plans for our nursery program, and I am currently developing a nursery manual in response to reading this book. I highly recommend this thorough book to anyone involved in church nurseries. It should certainly be in every church library and on every pastor's book shelf.