In C3 Kids, our heart is to introduce kids to the love of Jesus with energy, enthusiasm, fun, and creativity!
From the moment you check your child in with our secure database to the moment that you are greeted in the classroom, our aim is to share God’s Word with them in a way they can understand in a secure and excellent environment.
We hope that your child will develop quality character and an understanding of God’s Word that will be a foundation for their life! Each week, kids will explore God on their level through worship, stories and prayer.
The ultimate goal of C3 Kids is to provide real hope for real kids in a real world. Our team members want to model and teach the core values of our church to the kids so they can live them out at home, in their schools, and in their community.
Our nurseries are staffed with trained, caring team members. As babies develop, they will transition to a classroom designed for their specific needs. We ask that you please provide a diaper bag and label any additional items for your child. Feel free to bring a comfort item like a favorite toy or blanket as well.
The C3 Kids elementary ministry provides a safe, fun, and caring environment for children in 1st through 4th grade. Our services are built around three basic truths every child should embrace based on the verse Luke 2:52:
Each week, our curriculum helps the kids learn a key concept as it relates to a core value and memory verse, utilizing praise and worship, drama, and small group activities geared just for them.
Each week, the lesson is reinforced with activities you and your child do together at home. We look forward to having your child join us as God’s word transforms their life.
Surge is designed to deepen a students’ relationship with Christ through live worship, live teaching and small group time.
Surge meets during all service times. They begin in Large Group with 1st-4th grade and then break out into a small group setting.
In Surge, students begin to prepare for our student ministry, Zeal. They learn the values of studying scripture, taking notes, and practically applying what they learn through the week.
The C3 Kids Open Arms ministry exists to welcome the children and families of the special needs community. It is our desire to create a safe and fun environment that meets the specific needs of each child.
We offer classroom environments that provide sensory input for a wide spectrum of needs. We also use a low ratio environment to accommodate the individual child and their family so that we can meet each individual where they are at and minister to them on their level.
Open Arms allows parents and caregivers to attend service without interruption or worry as each child is cared for and ministered to by our team members who have the heart and training to serve all who come through our doors regardless of need or developmental level. We provide programming during the 10 AM service for preschool through sixth grade in our classroom environments. We also provide a double stuff classroom opportunity during the 11:30 AM service for our students who will be attending more than one service while their parent(s) serve.
Our desire is to talk with family members in advance so that we can provide you with all the necessary information and have a chance to learn of your child’s specific needs to best prepare the environment for your family.
We want to grow C3 Kids Ministry with new team members who want to make a difference by connecting with and pouring into the kids of the C3 Church.
Attend one of our orientations offered the first and third Sunday of every month during the 10:00 am service. Visit the preschool kiosk check-in area located directly outside the worship center doors!
BRUSSELS - Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google may face a third EU antitrust charge as soon as next month, this time focusing on its revenue mainstay AdWords ad placement service, three people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
A Google search page is seen through a magnifying glass in this photo illustration taken in Berlin, August 11, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski
The world’s most popular Internet search engine is already under fire from the European Commission for promoting its shopping service at the expense of rivals and for using its Android mobile operating system for smartphones to squeeze out competitors.
The Commission has asked Google rivals to share information related to search advertising with the tech giant, a step suggesting the EU competition enforcer could be poised to hit Google with a fresh charge, the sources said.
The company’s terms and conditions for its AdWords and AdSense services have been on the Commission’s radar since 2010, after rivals complained about unfair advertising exclusivity clauses and undue restrictions on advertisers.
AdWords places ads next to Google search results both on Google-owned sites and other website publishers who rely on Google advertising to support their businesses.
It forms the core of Google’s advertising business which posted about $75 billion in revenue last year, accounting for 90 percent of Alphabet’s total annual revenue.
Separately, a ruling in the Commission’s case against Google over its shopping service, which had been expected this year, appears to have been delayed after the Commission asked rivals for more documents in a bid to reinforce its legal arguments, the sources said.
The company could be fined up to $7.4 billion or 10 percent of its global turnover for each case if found guilty of abusing its dominance.
March 24 (Reuters) - Stock futures pointed to a higher opening for Canada’s main stock index on Friday as oil prices rose, supported by a fall in Saudi crude exports to the United States in March.
Saudi Arabia’s exports cut, in line with OPEC’s agreement to reduce supply, is the largest cut in production after the agreement reached last year by both OPEC and non-OPEC producers to reduce output.
Canada’s main stock index closed higher on Thursday, led by heavyweight financial sector shares a day after the federal budget held off from raising taxes on investors.
Dow Jones Industrial Average e-mini futures were up 0.2 percent at 7:10 a.m. ET, while S&P 500 e-mini futures were up 0.17 percent and Nasdaq 100 e-mini futures were up 0.21 percent.
The Canadian budget released this week added little stimulus spending, but recent signs of economic strength and federal funds already in the pipeline have boosted expectations that the Bank of Canada may have to shed its doom-and-gloom outlook.
Canada’s BRP Inc reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Friday, helped by strong demand for its snowmobiles, watercraft and other recreational vehicles.
Uber Canada on Thursday urged the Canadian government to retain a tax advantage available to ride-services companies, a day after the country’s Liberal administration proposed removing the measure.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Double world champion Fernando Alonso’s departure from Formula One at the end of the season reflects badly on the sport, fellow-Spaniard Carlos Sainz said on Thursday.
Alonso, 37, is leaving after four frustrating years with McLaren, who have not won a race since 2012.
The Spaniard last triumphed with Ferrari in 2013 but is still regarded as one of the quickest drivers who ranks among the greats.
“The fact that he is leaving I think is a big loss for Formula One,” Sainz, the Renault driver who is taking Alonso’s place at McLaren next year, told reporters at the Mexican Grand Prix.
“It is something for Formula One and everyone to consider why one of the best drivers is leaving, and why we cannot have a bit more competitive grid where many drivers can fight for wins or for podiums.”
Since the 1.6 liter V6 turbo hybrid power units were introduced in 2014, only three teams have won races — Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull.
Force India’s Mexican Sergio Perez is the only driver from outside those top three teams to stand on the podium in 18 races so far this year.
Last year, Williams’ Canadian Lance Stroll was the only non-Mercedes, Ferrari or Red Bull driver to claim a top three finish.
Alonso, who won his titles with Renault in 2005 and 2006, is also competing in the World Endurance Championship with Toyota and won the Le Mans 24 Hours sportscar race this year.
The Spaniard, a Monaco Grand Prix winner, needs to win the Indianapolis 500 to become only the second driver after the late Briton Graham Hill to complete the so-called ‘Triple Crown of Motorsport’.
Formula One’s owners Liberty Media want to see the sport become more competitive and are working with teams and governing body on changes to help make that happen.
SOTOBANARI ISLAND, Japan (Reuters) - Dangerous currents swirl around Sotobanari island, which has not a drop of natural water, and local fishermen rarely land there.
Seventy-six-year-old naked hermit Masafumi Nagasaki sits at table made from polystyrene box as he eats a food on Sotobanari island, off western coast of Iriomote island, Okinawa prefecture, April 14, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer
But 76-year-old Masafumi Nagasaki has made this kidney-shaped island in Japan’s tropical Okinawa prefecture his retirement home, with an unusual dress code: nothing at all.
The wiry Nagasaki, his skin leathered by the sun of two decades on the island, worked briefly as a photographer before spending years on the murkier side of the entertainment industry. When retirement came, he wanted to get far away from it all.
He chose Sotobanari, which is roughly a 1,000 meters across and means “Outer Distant island” in the local dialect. It lies off the coast of Iriomote island, far closer to Taiwan than to Tokyo.
His resolve was tested relatively soon into his stay when a massive typhoon swept over the island, scouring away most of the scrub he had counted on for shade, as well as carrying away the simple tent he lived in.
“I just scorched under the sun,” he said. “It was at that point I thought this was going to be an impossible place to live.”
For the first year he lived on Sotobanari, he threw on clothes whenever boats passed his way. But slowly the island stripped away his embarrassment.
“Walking around naked doesn’t really fit in with normal society, but here on the island it feels right, it’s like a uniform,” he said. “If you put on clothes you’ll feel completely out of place.”
He does throw on clothes once a week for a trip to a settlement an hour away by boat, where he buys food and drinking water. He also collects the 10,000 yen ($120) sent to him by his family, on which he lives.
His staple food is rice cakes, which he boils in water, eating whenever hunger strikes - sometimes four or five times a day. Water for bathing and shaving comes from rainwater caught in a system of battered cooking pots.
Each day is conducted according to a strict timetable, starting with stretches in the sun on the beach. The rest is a race against time as he prepares food, washes and cleans his camp before the light fails and insects come out to bite.
“It hadn’t really occurred to me before how important it is to choose the place of your death, like whether it’s in a hospital or at home with family by your side. But to die here, surrounded by nature - you just can’t beat it, can you?”
GENEVA (Reuters) - Geneva’s housing market is overheating because of inflexible laws, not because of the expatriate white-collar workers who are popularly blamed for crowding the staid Swiss city, a study by Avenir Suisse, according to an economic thinktank.
“Demand cannot explain the soaring prices in Geneva. It’s about supply,” Marco Salvi, author of the study entitled “A home-made shortage”, told a press conference.
Rents have risen far faster than elsewhere in Switzerland in the last decade, and spiraling demand is often cited as the reason for the imbalance in the market.
The common assumption is that the town’s housing market cannot keep up with the latest influx of wealthy foreigners, many of whom work in commodity trading, banking or multinationals such as Proctor and Gamble, and have big budgets and grand ambitions about where they want to live.
Squeezed between the southern tip of Lake Geneva and the French border, Geneva has never been awash with vacant properties, especially around the lake. But there is plenty of potential for new housing supply on the outskirts, Salvi said.
“Why? It’s the laws. What’s the main difference? It’s the concept of a development zone,” Salvi said.
The development zone covers a third of the available residential building zones of the canton of Geneva and 60 percent of the urban and suburban zones.
It is covered by local and national laws stipulating the precise use, location and type of buildings; the price of land; quotas of social housing and rents and yields that are fixed for a decade.
When 48 villas were put on the market, they were snapped up within 48 hours, according to Xavier Comtesse, the head of Avenir Suisse in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
As well as a lack of new buildings, a law dating from 1983, intended to stop landlords converting residential properties into office space or doing luxury conversions, effectively limits rents to 18 percent of the median income level and prevents rent hikes within three-to-five years of renovation work.
Unable to pass building costs to their tenants, landlords are dissuaded from doing work on their properties. The last census, in 2000, found that 83.5 percent of properties that were over 40 years old had not been renovated.
Other landlords get around the law by renovating in phases. But the need for such tricks puts off institutional investors who might develop the market, despite ultra-low interest rates.
The Swiss National Bank said on Monday that it will not for now seek to force banks to boost their capital buffers to safeguard against mortgage risks as the country’s property market seems to be cooling.
The Avenir Suisse study recommended freeing up prices and taxing the proceeds, abolishing the most onerous laws, building on some of Geneva’s agricultural land and building upwards.
But tenants are not pushing for change. One 2011 study found that 54 percent of households were satisfied with their home, putting rent third on their list of complaints, after noise disturbance and the size of the dwelling.
Salvi said Geneva was a tale of two rents: while the value of new rental contracts was growing rapidly, most Genevans were enjoying low rents that hadn’t changed for years.
In real terms, old rents rose only 11 percent between 2001 and 2011, slightly above the rise of 9 percent in the whole of Switzerland. People on old contracts were now paying 30 percent less than new rents, Salvi said.
(Reuters) - The British royal family criticized paparazzi on Friday for what it called their increasingly dangerous attempts to photograph the Queen’s two year-old great-grandson Prince George.
Britain's Prince George looks into the pram of his sister, Princess Charlotte, after her christening at the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Sandringham, Britain in this file photograph dated July 5, 2015. REUTERS/Matt Dunham/pool/Files
Photographers have followed George and his nanny around London parks, have pursued cars leaving royal homes, and police found one hidden in a blacked-out car outside a children’s play area visited by the prince, a statement said.
“In recent months, there have been an increasing number of incidents of paparazzi harassment of Prince George and the tactics being used are increasingly dangerous,” added the statement from the Kensington Palace residence of George’s parents Prince William and Kate Middleton.
William, second in line to the throne, and his wife have tangled with the media before over the paparazzi’s tactics and have said that they want their children to be able play in public without being photographed.
“The vast majority of publications around the world - and all British publications - have refused to fuel the market for such photos,” the statement said.
But it added: “Despite this, paparazzi photographers are going to increasingly extreme lengths to observe and monitor Prince George’s movements and covertly capture images of him to sell to the handful of international media still willing to pay for them.
“A line has been crossed and any further escalation in tactics would represent a very real security risk.”
The issue of harassment by the paparazzi is particularly sensitive for William whose mother Princess Diana was killed with her lover Dodi al-Fayed in Paris in 1997 when her limousine crashed into the wall of a tunnel as they tried to flee a posse of chasing photographers.
George, third in line to the throne, was born to a global media frenzy in July 2013 but has spent most of his life since then out of the spotlight, with only a handful of public appearances.
The royals also complained about harassment of Kate Middleton before the couple married in 2011. A year after their wedding, European magazines printed topless pictures of her taken while she was on holiday in France.
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The average Briton is 40,000 pounds ($56,150) worse off because of the credit crunch, as house prices and stock markets slump, a report said on Monday.
An analysis by consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers said the economic crisis had erased 1.9 trillion pounds of Britain’s household wealth since July 2007.
A 20 percent fall in house prices had cost 800 billion pounds while the estimated loss on equities from the sharp fall in stock markets was put at 1.1 trillion pounds.
John Hawksworth, head of macroeconomics at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said that meant the wealth of an average person would have dropped by around 28 percent.
“Translating these figures to a more individual perspective, the estimated loss of wealth of 1.9 trillion pounds would equate to around 40,000 pounds on average per adult in the UK,” he said.
While the level of losses would vary considerably, Hawksworth said they could result in a cut in total annual household expenditure of around 45 billion pounds, the equivalent to about 5 percent of household spending.
“The knock-on effect of this level of wealth destruction will result in significantly more belt-tightening and reduced spending by households over the next year and this situation could be exacerbated by expected further falls in house prices over this period,” he said.
However, positive effects of recent interest rate cuts, increases to the money supply and other fiscal stimulus measures announced by the government could see an economic recovery later in 2010 and beyond, he added.
Mark Heinrich was based in Bonn covering East-West German relations from 1987 to 1989 and in Berlin from the autumn of 1989 to 1992. He is now specialist correspondent in Vienna in charge of nuclear non-proliferation coverage.
VIENNA (Reuters) - Many people remember the night the Berlin Wall came down, but fewer the human tide that was history in the making five days before.
When around one million East Germans swept through East Berlin calling for free elections on November 4, no one sensed the Wall would be overwhelmed by euphoric crowds the following week.
But the march and rally in the vast Alexanderplatz square, an unparalleled challenge to a hardline Communist regime unhinged by the reforms of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, was the immediate harbinger — at least in retrospect.
While scribbling feverishly in my notepad, I cast nervous glances around, bracing for the green-uniformed “Vopo” People’s Police to swoop and rout the rally with flailing truncheons and mass arrests, true to past form.
But they were scarcely to be seen, passive on the sidelines. Plainclothes Stasi state security agents could be picked out here and there — but they had been eclipsed.
For this was no longer a few thousand isolated dissenters in a sea of cowed conformism. This was a tsunami of popular democracy, overwhelming any notion of state repression.
Still, police helicopters hovered over the Wall and police blocked approaches to the Brandenburg Gate less than a kilometer (mile) away, in case of a mass rush on the border.
Marchers plastered thousands of posters on grim state buildings. A sea of colorful placards, a brass band on a wagon and cheers from people hanging out of apartment windows conjured up a festive air, free of fear for the first time.
Two stalwarts of the Communist elite, former spymaster Markus Wolf and East Berlin party chief Guenter Schabowski, tried to address the throng but met a crescendo of scorn. “Too late, too late,” people chanted.
For the regime, the train had left the station. One placard said it all: “The people lead, the Party limps behind.”
On November 9, I was sent to Warsaw to cover the start of a trip of post-war reconciliation to Poland by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. After nightfall, the Wall gave way, catching Kohl and the world by surprise.
At a wild middle-of-the-night news conference in Warsaw, the hack pack clamored for Kohl to break off his visit to return to Berlin — and take them with him to report a much bigger story.
He returned the next day to bask in the first glow of German reunification, to be consummated 11 months later.
To my chagrin, I was asked to stay on in Warsaw to await the resumption of Kohl’s visit. When I returned to Berlin on November 14, it was a city transformed with crowds flowing into West Berlin via new openings in the Wall.
That is, one Germany. I was witnessing that rarest of news events — a revolution without a shot being fired.
One long weekend the next summer, in East Germany’s dying days, I cycled the entire 160-km (100-mile) length of the Wall, along the paved “death strip” where would-be escapees were once shot.
I weaved through gaps in and out of east and west Berlin neighborhoods, and the time when I had waited at checkpoints with passport and visa to make the same little trips already seemed long a thing of the past.
YAD MORDECHAI, Israel (Reuters) - Survivors of one the darkest episodes of the Nazi-era have turned to light-and-sound shows and walk-through mockups in the hope their memories will not fade away into the history books.
Matityahu Mintz looks at a model of the Warsaw Ghetto displayed at the "From Holocaust to Revival" museum in Kibbutz Yad Mordechai in southern Israel January 18, 2011. Survivors of one the darkest episodes of the Nazi-era have turned to light-and-sound shows and walk-through mockups in the hope their memories will not fade away into the history books. At the museum, a scale model of the Warsaw ghetto shows where its Jews rose up against Hitler's troops in mid-1943, engaging in frantic house-to-house fighting in a bid to halt deportations to death camps. Picture taken January 18, 2011. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
At the “From Holocaust to Revival” museum in southern Israel, a scale model of the Warsaw ghetto shows where its Jews rose up against Hitler’s troops in mid-1943, engaging in frantic house-to-house fighting in a bid to halt deportations to death camps.
The revolt marked the only significant armed Jewish resistance to Nazi oppression during World War II, but it was crushed with the loss of several thousand Jewish lives. Many of the Ghetto’s remaining 50,000 plus inhabitants were sent to the gas chambers, becoming part of the 6 million killed by the Nazis.
Guided by veterans of the revolt, visitors can pace out a reconstructed bunker with a secret toilet access, pack into a railway car recalling those that hauled Jews to death camps, or have yellow Stars of David projected onto their chests.
Such passing impressions of the Holocaust have stirred concern in at least one Israeli commentator, who wondered in the left-leaning Haaretz newspaper whether the “Disneyland approach” was too trivial.
Warsaw ghetto survivor Aliza Melamed said displays of the kind at the museum in Kibbutz Yad Mordechai were necessary to appeal to those for whom the horrors were not a living memory.
“We look more at the contents and we don’t need stimulating experiences like projections of yellow stars and all kinds of major sound effects. But I understand we do this for teenagers,” she said.
Museum designer David Gafni describes the exhibits as an extension of commemorative efforts such as the annual tours of Polish wartime sites for young Jews from Israel and elsewhere.
“This is the thing we work for, to shock, to cause agitation and help explain to the young generation,” he said.
Yad Mordechai, named after Ghetto resistance leader Mordecai Anielewicz, is among the more embattled of Israeli communities, having weathered an Egyptian army assault in the 1948 war and, more recently, the rocket and mortar attacks of Palestinian militants in the neighbouring Gaza Strip. Israelis readily link their ethos of resilience to the Holocaust, something that, paradoxically, can create emotional distance from the vulnerable European Jewry of World War Two.
Pnina, a high school student visiting the Warsaw ghetto museum, sounded discomfited by the Star of David that appeared on her clothes — an ephemeral, weightless version of the cloth patch that marked out Jews during the Holocaust.
“I understand it’s a part of thinking what happened there and feeling as if you are different among others. It can cause a feeling of being conspicuous among others.”