Lauren has been involved at Crossroads Bible Church in Bellevue in their fabulous Wednesday night kids program for the past 2 years. Mark was a small group leader the first year, but due to his travel schedule, was unable to be a leader last year. So, since the responisbility of transporting to/from the church every Wednesday fell to me, I decided, I'd sign up and commit to be a group leader for the fall.
On Thursday, I notified Faith (one of the admin. assistants) that I would like to sign my son (who has down syndrome) up for the Wednesday night program, but would prefer to place him in the pre-K program (vs. Kindergarten). I also explained that he is currently attending preschool, but in the fall will be in Kindergarten at our neighborhood school in the general education population. Last, I stated I would like to be a group leader for the fall and would like to teach my son's group. With excitement, she said she'd pass the information on to the new program director. I received the registration packet for Mason in the mail on Saturday.
So - I thought I had covered all basis. I was wrong.
Today (Sunday) I received the following voice mail message (on my machine) from Elizabeth Tasha, new Team 3 Director for the Wednesday night program at Crossroads Bible Church.
"Hi this is Elizabeth Tasha, Team 3 director. Unfortunately, my assistant Faith was not aware of our special needs policy." "We do not admit special needs children to our program". At that point, I started to replay the message, thinking, I must have misunderstood. Sure enough, after the third time of playing the message (and writing it down verbatim), I got the picture. Yes, it took THREE times, I'm slow! The message goes on to say, that Crossroads Bible Church is happy to let us purchase one of their books so I can study it AT HOME with my son.
On Thursday, I notified Faith (one of the admin. assistants) that I would like to sign my son (who has down syndrome) up for the Wednesday night program, but would prefer to place him in the pre-K program (vs. Kindergarten). I also explained that he is currently attending preschool, but in the fall will be in Kindergarten at our neighborhood school in the general education population. Last, I stated I would like to be a group leader for the fall and would like to teach my son's group. With excitement, she said she'd pass the information on to the new program director. I received the registration packet for Mason in the mail on Saturday.
So - I thought I had covered all basis. I was wrong.
Today (Sunday) I received the following voice mail message (on my machine) from Elizabeth Tasha, new Team 3 Director for the Wednesday night program at Crossroads Bible Church.
"Hi this is Elizabeth Tasha, Team 3 director. Unfortunately, my assistant Faith was not aware of our special needs policy." "We do not admit special needs children to our program". At that point, I started to replay the message, thinking, I must have misunderstood. Sure enough, after the third time of playing the message (and writing it down verbatim), I got the picture. Yes, it took THREE times, I'm slow! The message goes on to say, that Crossroads Bible Church is happy to let us purchase one of their books so I can study it AT HOME with my son.
After her "delightful" message was over and I was able to close my mouth, I went up to the computer to look at a few Bible verses. Apparantly Crossroads Bible Church policy does not "jive" with the following verse...Matthew 19:14 - Jesus said, "let the little children come ot me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these". I guess their philosophy is to hinder any child who is not perfect by their standards.
2 comments:
Cori, I am shocked. Speechless. Stunned. I can't wait to hear what you and the senior pastor discuss!
I for one am thrilled that you are going to purchase the material and have your own "home school" Wed night program. How much and when do sign ups start?
I totally forgot to ask Brad about the legality of that today, did you ask him?
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