Dana Keefer - Director/Financial Admin

Shannon Scott - MVBC Senior Pastor

Church Phone - 919-847-0160

Church Fax - 919-847-0606

1. We believe that each child is a unique individual. We are sensitive to a child's spiritual, social, emotional, and physical needs. We provide developmentally appropriate programs that focus on the process of learning and helping children enjoy successful experiences
2. We believe that learning is a sequential process and that children grow and develop at their own rate. Children learn by actively participating. When provided a variety of materials, appropriate for their level of development, the child is able to learn skills necessary by hands on interactions, without pressure
3. We believe that the strength of our program is in the dedication of our teaching staff. Our teachers create a caring, loving, and nurturing atmosphere and mold each child's creativity and positive self-image
4. We believe that children deserve to be children. Our program is designed to develop in children a sense of independence and responsibility
5. We believe parents are the most significant adults in a child's life. We strive to create mutual respect between parents and teachers; a partnership for the benefit of the child. We encourage communication between parents and teachers. Our doors are open to parents at all times

As a ministry of Mount Vernon Baptist Church, our program adheres to the same statement of faith as the church itself. Below is an excerpt from that statement

The Scriptures

The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God’s revelation of Himself to man. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy.

God

There is one and only one living and true God. The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.

God the Father

God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. He is all powerful, all knowing, all loving, and all wise.

God the Son

Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself human nature with its demands and necessities and identifying Himself completely with mankind yet without sin. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross He made provision for the redemption of men from sin. He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples as the person who was with them before His crucifixion. He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where He is the One Mediator, fully God, fully man, in whose Person is effected the reconciliation between God and man. He will return in power and glory to judge the world and to consummate His redemptive mission. He now dwells in all believers as the living and ever present Lord.

God the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine… Through illumination He enables men to understand truth. He exalts Christ. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church.

Man

Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. In the beginning man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God. The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.

Salvation

Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer… There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.

The Family

God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. It is God’s unique gift to reveal the union between Christ and His church and to provide for the man and the woman in marriage the framework for intimate companionship, the channel of sexual expression according to biblical standards, and the means for procreation of the human race. Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord.

Our 3-year-old program is designed to provide social, emotional, spiritual, physical, and intellectual learning experiences through play, art, music, story time, Spanish, science, and, centers. Some of the goals we will strive to achieve with your child are

Our 4-year-old and Traditional Kindergarten program is designed to provide social, emotional, spiritual, physical, and intellectual learning experiences through art, music, Spanish, Bible, science, scripture memorization, organized centers, organized teaching time, and seat work.

the curriculum that we use in these programs is Abeka, with some extra suppliments

Some of the goals we will strive to achieve with your child are