CHILDREN ARE THE GREATEST INVESTMENT FOR THE GREATEST FUTURE
Our Story
My name is Joy Kang, and I am the owner and provider of Sonflower Early Learning. Thank you for letting me share my history and heart for children. It began when I was young and I lost my mother through a long-suffering sickness, which left the family in deep sorrow and pain. It was no one's fault, but the pain overtook the family and I grew up with loneliness and a lack of love.
However, when I met the Lord Jesus personally, I found the love that I sought, along with purpose and hope for my life. Beyond that, Jesus healed me from sorrow and pain, giving me joy instead. I believe God is love, and He is always with us, even when we feel alone. It has become my passion to let children know they are not alone, either, that they are loved, and that God has a plan and purpose for them, and that they can dream big because "With God, all things are possible."
The Lord, Jesus, gave me a dream to open a private Christian preschool in 2009. I have taken steps to gain knowledge and experience to be equipped. I went back to school for ECE (Early Childhood Education) and worked as an assistant teacher, lead teacher, assistant director, and director in early learning daycare centers in order to be equipped to open the one God promised. I considered every day as training, every opportunity a learning opportunity, to create the best program to benefit children in every aspect of learning. Many personal failures and painful memories have also brought me the benefits of personal growth. Praise God!
Much lies ahead, but Sunflower Early Learning is starting its journey small in my humble home, intending to launch out to a center soon. Our promise is that we will not rest from creating learning programs and environments designed for the best interest of children. From the bottom of my heart, I believe that children are a gift from the Lord, and investing in them would bring the best future we dream of.
Experience
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Directorship: Northgate Early Learning Center, The Learning Experience, Northshore Christian Academy-Early Learning Center
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Teaching: UCIC Early Learning Center/Preschool, United Seattle Bellevue Korean Language School
Internship: King's Child Center, Westgate Chapel, Shoreline Community College-Parent Child Center
Education
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Early childhood education
Early childhood special education
Sociology & Psychology
Guardian Ad Litem Training
TESTIMONIALS
Who We Are
SONFLOWER EARLY LEARNING is a Christian Daycare/Preschool (currently home-based) building up the foundation of world leaders. As identity is generally established by age 7, understanding purposeful early childhood education and its practices is essential to our children's success.
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Sonflower Early Learning provides age-appropriate and developmentally- appropriate advanced Toddler and preschool education for their academic, social, emotional, physical, and spiritual development.
We pursue every opportunity to support children in establishing confidence and a healthy identity in the love and truth of Jesus Christ because we believe it is the fundamental foundation to raise our children to become compassionate, resilient, creative thinkers, problem solvers, dreamers, and world leaders. Sonflower is where children can thrive.
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What We Believe
A mustard seed is one of the smallest in the world. It's very tiny and can be considered to have little value. However, the seed has the potential to become an immeasurably enormous tree.
If you can see a giant tree while the mustard seed is only a seed, you can also see a great leader in children, as we are all born with purpose and destiny according to God's plan. Remember, all the heroes and world leaders were once babies.
Like a seed needs the right environment with water, soil, and light in the right temperature, our children born with potential need the right loving and learning environment to grow and reach their potential.
Children are the Greatest Investment for the Greatest Future.
Let's see the potential in children and bring it to reality.
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With God, All Things Are Possible (Matthew 19:26)
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Happy to Learn Happy to Grow
NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY
SONFLOWER EARLY LEARNING does not discriminate against anyone based on any color, race, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or religion.