Crossbridge Sick Policies
PARENTS:
With school starting up and the flu season already making headlines, please don’t take YOUR CHILD’S SICKNESS LIGHTLY.
The church follows guidelines set by the CDC (listed below) in order to keep our families safe and healthy.
NOTE: If your child has had a fever or diarrhea within 24 hours of Sunday, do not bring them to Kids Crossing.
We love our nearly 100 children who attend here each Sunday, and we appreciate you thinking of the other families and our precious teachers before bringing a sick child. Besides keeping germs at home, be sure to keep the health of your area school’s and children’s ministries in your prayers this Fall/Winter!
SICK CHILD POLICY
Children are not permitted to be in Kids Crossing if they have:
–Fever (100°F underarm; 101°F oral or 102°F rectal) AND sore throat, rash, vomiting, diarrhea, earache, irritability or confusion. In babies 4 months or younger, a 101°F rectal temperature is a fever threshhold.
–Diarrhea
–Vomiting
–Body rash with fever
–Sore throat with fever and swollen glands
–Severe coughing (child gets red or blue in the face and makes a high-pitched whoop after cough)
–Eye discharge (thick mucus or pus draining from eye, or pink eye)
–Yellowish skin or eyes
Courtesy of the Center for Disease Control
Children must be free from these symptoms or fever for at least 24 hours.
Returning to Work or School
Guidance for Adults and Children with Seasonal or Novel H1N1 Influenza
V.4 Revised August 21, 2009
These guidelines will be revised as situation evolves.
To date, most illness from the novel H1N1 influenza virus has been mild to moderate, but, as with seasonal influenza, there have been cases of very severe illness and several deaths in Texas. Some persons are at higher risk of severe disease or complications from influenza (see Box 1). To prevent spread of illness, it is important to follow preventive measures to avoid catching the flu and also measures to keep from infecting others. For more information on preventing influenza, taking care of an ill person at home, and other influenza issues, go to Families and Individuals on the www.texasflu.org site.
These Return to Work or School guidelines address the timing of returning to work or school after an influenza-like illness. The cautions apply whether a person has seasonal influenza, novel H1N1 influenza or a similar flu-like illness (see Box 2 for symptoms of influenza). If the novel H1N1 virus (or other seasonal influenza virus) changes significantly in severity, DSHS and CDC may make different recommendations as the situation evolves.
Note: “Stay at home” means persons should not congregate with friends, participate in other school or community activities, or be sent to a different day care. An ill person may leave home for medical appointments but should wear a mask (surgical mask is sufficient) while traveling to and from and during a medical appointment.
Table 1. Guidance for adults with flu-like illness on return to work or school
| Condition | Exclude from work or school |
| Ill and treated with antiviral medication* | Until there has been no fever (>100°F) for 24 hours without fever reducing medications. ** |
| Ill and not treated with antiviral medication* | Until there has been no fever (>100°F) for 24 hours without fever reducing medications. ** |
| Persons who have traveled to area where novel H1N1 or seasonal flu has been confirmed and who have no symptoms | 0 days, monitor for illness |
* Those working in a health care setting should be excluded for 7 days from symptom onset or until the resolution of symptoms, whichever is longer. Refer to www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/guidelines_infection_control.htm for more information.
** If influenza severity increases, people with flu-like illness may be asked to stay home for at least 7 days, even if they have no more symptoms.
Table 2. Guidance for persons younger than 18 years old with flu-like illness on return to work or school
|
Condition |
Exclude from work or school |
| Ill and treated child or youth | Until there has been no fever (>100°F) for 24 hours without fever reducing medications** |
| Ill and not treated child or youth | Until there has been no fever (>100°F) for 24 hours without fever reducing medications** |
| Persons who have traveled to area where novel H1N1 or seasonal flu has been confirmed and do not symptoms | 0 days, monitor for illness |
* If influenza severity increases, people with flu-like illness may be asked to stay home for at least 7 days, even if they have no more symptoms.
Box 1. Persons at Higher Risk for Complications of Novel H1N1 and Seasonal Influenza |
For more information on preventing influenza, taking care of an ill person at home, and other influenza issues, go to
- Families and Individuals on the www.texasflu.org site.
Joy in the City
The book of Philippians is a little book that packs a big punch. It is only 4 chapters but the truth in it can change our lives. It’s really a letter written to them by their founding pastor the Apostle Paul.
One of the main themes of the book is joy that is found in knowing Jesus as our savior and Lord. In our culture there are thousands of books and ideas on how to be happy. Our whole nation is founded on the idea of “the pursuit of happiness,” but despite all our books, ideas and talk shows we continue to be a nation of unhappy people. We still strive for more, better, new, faster and thrilling. Nothing seems to satisfy us.
In the book of Philippians though we don’t find a guy living in his perfect million-dollar home, with his perfect teeth telling us how to think positively and actualize our perfect future. No in this book we find a guy in jail writing a letter not telling how it’s wrong for him to be in there but that it really advances the Gospel (Phil 1:12). He doesn’t write to complain or beg them to break him out. Paul actually says he rejoices (1:18), calls his friends to rejoice, and work toward relational unity for the sake of the Gospel.
We have titled this study, “Joy in the City.” We’re using the word “city” as a metaphor for where we live. The great writer Augustine wrote about the “city of man” and the “city of God.” The “city of man” is where we live now. We live in a place and time where people have rebelled against God and we all live under the curse of the fall (Genesis 4). The values of this city are not the values of God. The end of the Bible speaks of the “city of God,” the place where Jesus rules and reigns and His will is done perfectly and joyfully. This city is described this way…
“1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth,
for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,
and there was no longer any sea.
2I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven
from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
3And I heard a loud voice from the
throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men,
and he will live with them. They will be his people,
and God himself will be with them and be their God
4He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There
will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain,
for the old order of things has passed away.”
Revelation 21:1-4
Jesus entered the city of man and lived a sinless life and then died as payment for the sins of humanity. He was buried and on the third day rose from the dead, defeating Satan, Sin and death. Jesus will one day return and bring the “City of God” down from heaven as it is written in Revelation 21. Right now we live in a time where Jesus reconciles people to His Father by the Holy Spirit yet they still dwell in the “city of man.” God in His sovereign wisdom has chosen to use these redeemed people (the church) to demonstrate and declare the reality of this new city where Jesus is King.
So as we study this great book we are seeking as a church community to ask how do we have “Joy in the City?” How do we live as followers of Jesus whose motto is “to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil 1:21)? How do we live in the city of man but let our “manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ” (Phil 1:27)? How do we have the joy of knowing Jesus Christ as the center of our life in the “city of man?”
We are also seeking to learn how we can bring joy to this city. Paul will challenge us to live in such a way to advance the gospel in whatever circumstance we are in. How do we bring the joy of Jesus to the place we live and work? The Church is on a mission to declare and demonstrate the joy of knowing Jesus to the world.
I am so excited to study this book with you and learn from the Holy Spirit how to be a community of people who have “joy in the city” and bring “joy to the city”.
Special Announcement
The Pastoral Advisory team is happy to announce that Ben Hester will be our new worship pastor for Crossbridge Church. Ben is from Tampa, Florida and has been serving at the East Bay Campus of Bell Shoals Baptist Church over music and small groups. Ben traveled and led worship at various church events for many years and has led the band “No Longer Strangers.” His desire is to make God famous through the corporate act of worship, and by making disciples for Christ locally, regionally and globally.
Ben graduated from the University of South Florida with a BA in music studies/vocal principle. Ben has been married for almost three years to Micah and they have two children Christopher and Heidi.
You may remember Ben when he led for us on August 9th. Ben and his family will be moving to Sugar Land in late September and will begin leading us in worship through music on October 4th.
We praise God for His kindness to us by bringing Ben and his family to Crossbridge!
