Open Arms Christian Child Development Center

Beginning Monday, May 11, our temporary open hours will be 8am to 5pm. We look forward to serving you and your children.

Happy Mother's Day! We wish you many blessings today and always.

We are ready for your children on Monday, May 11th! We have been learning new guidelines, training teachers, and preparing classrooms. We will be doing health checks of all staff and students upon arrival. Our temporary entrance for children will be through the glass double doors under the awning. Thank you for all your support and love over the past 2 months!

We are so excited to be reopening our doors next week! Our teachers have been in and getting classrooms ready to open on Monday. Today we appreciated our teachers with a morning treat and homemade masks made from some of our church members. ❤

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week from the Board of Governance (BOG)!

We love our teachers and staff! Happy Teacher Appreciation Week from the church and school administration. ❤️🥰

Boys and girls...its time for Chapel! Join Mr. Ray for another Bloom lesson.

Its Teacher Appreciation Week at Open Arms! We miss all of our teachers and staff. We pray that you are all safe and healthy! ❤

Let us know your positive stories in the comments below 👇 #positivethoughts

It's Chapel Time! Join Mr. Ray for a special Easter message "Jesus is Alive!"

Ms. Lolita has a fun lesson for all her estudiantes (students). Gracias Ms. Lolita we miss you! ❤️

Mr. Ray is back with another chapel message. Grab your "palms" 🤗 and let's learn the new theme of the month "Bloom".

Jesus is alive! He is risen! Hallelujah!! Happy Easter from your Open Arms family. ❤

We miss the little children that grace our classrooms, halls, and playgrounds everyday. We are thinking of you and praying for you always. ❤

Wishing you many Blessings on this Palm Sunday.

Blessings on this Palm Sunday! Our parking lot was empty, but worship was online and streaming into hearts and homes! Palms and Portals of Prayer devotions are available on the loop. If you missed worship live, catch it on the website anytime.

Thank you for your support. Please keep our teachers and staff in your prayers. ❤

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, an Employee Disaster Relief Program has been created to financially assist our Open Arms Child Development Center staff members who are out of work and currently ineligible for unemployment benefits. The purpose of this disaster relief program is to help care for God’s people and give our staff relief in a time of crisis. We have been encouraged by the many families who have reached out to offer financial support to our staff and this is another avenue to help those most impacted by COVID-19.

If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution, you can easily contribute via cell phone by texting “OSWLC Give” to 77977 and selecting the COVID 19 Employee Disaster Relief Program from the options available. An independent committee of non-staff members has been created to review staff applications anonymously to determine the appropriate allocation of funds.

In John 13, Jesus commands “Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.” God loves us so well. During this time, we, as Christians, are called to be a light to the world and a city on a hill—let’s do everything we can to glorify God during this crisis.

If you have any questions, please reach out to any BOG or MMSLG member.

Amos as a puppy! ❤️❤️❤️

I receive a lot of Facebook comments about how fluffy I am. Well look at how I started out!

Many thanks to my early trainers who shared this photo with my team for #nationalpuppyday

📸 Marcia Newsome and Deb Rombach

For those at home with your children, we want to provide learning opportunities that you can do with your children. We have complied a list of resources for parents on our website. Click the link for resources by age group and a special message from Mr. Ray! https://openarms-ccdc.org/2020/03/24/resources-for-parents-at-home/

Join Our Savior's Way virtually this morning in worship at 9:30am. @oursaviorsway

Stay in your pjs and pour a cup of coffee!

Tools To Spend Time Around God's Word As A Family

Barbara Yarbrough shared this yesterday. It's a great way to grow in faith at home while you're home with the kids.

Our Savior's Way Lutheran Church Grace Place started a challenge last month to encourage our Grace Place families and the rest of the Our Savior's Way community to participate in '20 verses for 2020' from Seeds Family Worship.
Here is a link to the Seeds team on how easy it is to use these videos as a time to center your family on Christ. If you are not already in the habit of a family devotional time, this resource is a god start. When we are ready to get back to our usual routines, you just might have a new one one added! Music is not only enjoyable but also a powerful tool for learning. Already one of our GP kids heard the spoken verse from Romans and recognized that she knew it from learning the verse in song.

We have made it easy for you to have church at home as a family with kids of all ages. We set up everything so you have a memory verse, song, video and devot...

Amos Comfort Dog

Watch Amos and his friend Matt read a story! Follow Amos @amoscomfortdog

Hi Friends! Join me for story time as caregiver Matt reads, “If Jesus Lived Inside My Heart”

Dear Open Arms Families,

As the COVID-19 situation remains ever-changing, the health and well-being of our children, families, and teachers has remained our top priority. Our goal has been to continue to offer essential services to those families who depend on us. At this time, we have made the difficult decision to close next week, March 23rd to March 27th. We will continue to share updates and stay connected through email.

Your children are truly the heart of everything we do. All of us at Open Arms have missed seeing your children this week and will continue to miss them.

Thank you so much for all your support and the kind words that many of you have expressed to us this week. In this fearful time, it is so important to be strong in our faith in God. “Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9

Blessings,

Open Arms Administration

Reading: Psalm 36:7-10

Prayer: Father, caught in the middle of the storm, we so quickly forget the calm that was and are unable to think about the calm that will come. Our world feels like it’s upside-down, topsy-turvy. Our footing falters and we fall into despair. Let us never forget, never question, never doubt Your steadfast love, O God, lest we, like Peter (cf. Matthew 14:23-36), take our eyes off of Jesus and begin to sink in the bellowing waves. Amen.

Steps to Finding Peace for Your Family during Coronavirus • Seeds Family Worship

There are lots of news items on how to deal with the coronavirus from physical and mental focus.But here is a good read on how to bring our Lord into the conversations with your family and friends.

seedsfamilyworship.com My teenage son and I were looking forward to the weekend. It was a big four-day-long swim meet at the University of Missouri. He had been training for months and was hoping to do well. We made the six-hour journey, then I dropped him off at the aquatic center to get in an early practice while I chec...

Church Humor

Ms. Leeann, our opening manager and events specialist, created a super fun shamrock hunt for the students today. She hid shamrocks in the hallways for students to find. So much fun! ☘️☘️

We set a trap and that pesky Leprechaun tricked us again. He left the classroom a mess! Oh well. Better luck next year! ☘️

Monday begins re-enrollment for the 2020-21 school year for our all day program! Forms will be sent home with current families on Monday. Please return the forms by April 3. For more information, visit https://openarms-ccdc.org/2020/03/13/all-day-re-enrollment-begins-march-16/

If you are interested in our all day program, please contact our enrollment coordinator at [email protected]

Our Savior's Way Lutheran Church

LCPS has announces a closure from today, 3/12 through next Friday, 3/20. As of right now, our half day program will be closed today, 3/12. We will reevaluate and communicate about our status going forward later today.

Our full day program is operating on time. Drop in care is available for school age students.

#washyourhands

We are excited to announce that Open Arms will offer a junior kindergarten program for the new school year 2020-21. Does your child miss the LCPS cut off and would otherwise repeat preK? Stop in for a tour and learn about our JK program. For more information about visit: https://openarms-ccdc.org/2020/03/09/junior-kindergarten-program-to-offered-for-2020-21-school-year/

Today was "Wear a hat day" to go along with The Cat in the Hat. Tomorrow is Favorite Color Day! What color will you wear?

***Update*** 20 letters! The foxes pre-kindergarten class has received 20 letters from their Valentines letter exchange across North America. To see where the letters came from, click visit https://openarms-ccdc.org/2020/02/07/foxes-class-participate-in-valentines-exchange-across-north-america/

Today, students got inspiration from "The Lorax", another Dr. Seuss favorite. We are having so much fun this week! Tomorrow is "wear a hat day".