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Move-Up Day Event Guide: a Kids & Youth Ministry Resource to Help You Partner with Parents and Minister to Families The Grow Strategy provides seven tactics to help you invest well in the parents and families in your family ministry: events, meetings, discussion groups, one-on-ones, communication, tools, and celebration. This resource gives you an annual strategy for one of your Family Events. An event is an in-person experience that helps connect parents or caregivers with their kid, with your church, or with both! The Grow Strategy recommends scheduling events for families at a few key points throughout the school year. Move-Up Day (or Promotion Sunday) is a specific day when every kid or teenager in your ministry will move up to the next grade or age group. Some ministries like to keep their move-up days simple by adding a special element or two into their regular weekly program, while others like to create special experiences outside of their regular weekly program. This day can be as simple or elaborate as you'd like, so we've given you some ideas and options you can choose from. This event can also be combined with a ministry Open House Event for a whole day of celebrating the start of a new school year! If you're building your own customized Grow Strategy Calendar, we recommend putting this event on your calendar in the first month of your school year, or whenever you schedule the day all of your kids and teenagers officially graduate to their new grade levels.

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