13th Avenue
“As for me and my house,
we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua 24:15
Our
Classrooms
Nursery
Our littlest people (infants-2 ½ years) have their emotional and physical needs attended to with love and care. The Greenhouse and Playhouse are safe, comfortable and well equipped rooms that are baby and toddler friendly.
Preschool
2 ½ years old- kindergartners start their morning interaction with other children and leaders at activity stations throughout the room. Along with music, a more structured story time is introduced in the Fire House, Farm House and School House. Our preschool and kindergartners gather together for a large-group time of energetic singing and interactive Bible stories that focus on how to live for Jesus.
Grade School
In our grade school program, we want kids to learn more about Jesus and how to live for Him every day. We follow a large group/small group model. In large-group time we meet in the House of Praise for a time of high-energy worship and creative teaching. Small groups take the lesson a step further as they discuss how to apply what they’ve just learned to their lives.
For more information contact Laura Miller.
Leadership
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Laura Miller, Children's Ministry Director
Laura has been attending Faith Center since she was 16. She started on staff in 2001 working with the High School Group. In 2007 she transitioned to working in the Children’s Ministry. She has been serving there ever since. Benjamin and Laura met on a missions trip through the college group. They have four adopted children and have fostered many other children through the years. Laura loves spending time with her family and friends, planning fun adventures, taking walks and eating good food!
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Temple Burke, Children's Ministry Coordinator
Temple, originally from Beaverton, OR, moved to Eugene to attend Eugene Bible College where she met her husband, Jason, and received a Bachelor's in Christian Ministry. They began attending Faith Center in 1998 and originally served as volunteers in the Middle School Group until Temple was asked to join the staff, to work in Children's Ministry, in 2005. She is the Volunteer Coordinator and Preschool Director of 13th Avenue. Jason and Temple have four sons, a daughter-in-law and a granddaughter. She loves coffee, good food, good treats, family time and travel!
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Jenna Seeley, Grade School Director
Jenna is the grade school director at Faith Center. Jenna was born and raised in Eugene and began attending Faith Center at the age of 14. Jenna also leads in the High School ministry and is the girls floor manager at the Onyx house. Jenna began volunteering with our youth in 2018 and has loved doing it ever since. She graduated from the University of Oregon in 2023 with a bachelors in Family and Human Services. In her free time, you can find Jenna having coffee dates with her friends (most likely at Vero), holding babies, fishing/being outdoors, dreaming of traveling, and constantly singing!
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Robin Woolsey, Children and Youth Ministries Assistant
Robin and her family have lived in Eugene for the past 17 years and have attended Faith Center for the past 15 years. She has worked as a volunteer in the Children’s Ministry for the past seven years and has only recently joined the staff as Office Manager and the Children and Youth Ministries Assistant. In high school, Robin met her husband at church camp, in Rockaway, Oregon, and they have been married for over 25 years. They have one teenaged daughter and, together, they have one German Shepherd, two cats, and one leopard gecko. As a family, they love to travel, her husband for fishing, her daughter for bird watching, and history for Robin.
