Children

We welcome you and your children to worship with us! We provide Sunday school classes and evening classes for all ages, and we invite your children to join you for Sunday morning worship. (please see below for more information).


Nursery (ages birth through 3 years) is provided during the Sunday School time and Worship service on Sundays. Nursery is also provided during our Sunday evening classes and during our weekly women's Bible study.


Below is a list of classes and programs that we also offer for children:

  • Sunday School: Sunday at 9:15am.
  • Evening Classes: Sundays at 6:00pm.
  • Created for a Purpose: a creative arts camp for girls. (click here to learn more)
  • Kids Connect Bible Study: Wednesday at 10:00, during the Women's Weekly Bible Study


VISION

God’s Family Showing Them Jesus


We believe the entire church, as God’s covenant community, is called to join the parents to show Jesus to our children. We do this at many times, in many ways, including classroom teaching (Sunday school, Sunday evening classes, Wednesday morning kids’ Bible study), praying for individual children (children’s prayer bookmarks), and relationships with families and children. 


TEACHING

Show Them Jesus


Sunday School at 9:15pm


Nursery (ages birth through 3 years)

  • Location: Nursery room (Sanctuary)
  • Teacher: Stacy Dixon (and a group of dedicated nursery workers)
  • Curriculum: The Biggest Story (see below)

Pre-K/K (ages 4 years through kindergarten)

  • Location: Room 2 (Fellowship Hall)
  • Teachers: Glenda Williams and Georgia McKinnon
  • Curriculum: The Biggest Story (see below)

1st through 2nd Grade

  • Location: Room 4 (Fellowship Hall)
  • Teachers: Stephanie Baker and Laura Summers
  • Curriculum: The Biggest Story (see below)

3rd through 5th Grade

  • Location: Room 3 (Fellowship Hall)
  • Teacher: Carole Wilburn
  • Curriculum: The Biggest Story (see below)


Sunday School Children's Curriculum:  The Biggest Story is a 2-year chronological Bible study that helps children understand God's plan to redeem the world through his Son, Jesus, by leading them through the overarching story of the Bible. Each class learns from the same passage of Scripture each week, which helps parents reinforce the lesson with all their children at home. We are currently working our way through the Pentateuch, where we are discovering not only how the universe came into being, but also how we came into being, how sin entered the world, and also about God's plan to set his people free and set them on a path of obedience and blessing. 


Every week, we also focus on learning a Bible verse related to that week's lesson, along with a "Big Truth" that summarizes the lesson content. The weekly Bible verse and Big Truth are posted on the classroom doors, church bulletin boards, and in the Narthex (all church members are encouraged to pick up a card and learn with us each week). 


God’s Family IDEA: As you interact with the children at church, ask them to help you learn the current Bible verse and Big Truth. The fellowship time is a great time for this.



Sunday Evenings at 6:00pm


Nursery (ages birth through 2 years)

  • Location: Nursery room (Sanctuary)
  • Teacher: Julia Seaman and Sophie Seaman
  • Curriculum: Show Me Jesus, Great Commission Publication

  • Content: The nursery age children have an age-appropriate simple story and lots of play time. 


Pre-K/K (ages 3 years through kindergarten)

  • Location: Room 2 (Fellowship Hall)
  • Teacher: Mindy Robinson
  • Curriculum: Lead Me to Zion, by Heather Molendyk
  • Content: The pre-K and kindergarten students are learning covenant theology as we trace the theme of God’s covenant promises to his people beginning with Adam, continuing through Noah, Moses, David, and ultimately in Jesus. 

1st through 5th Grade

  • Location: Room 3 (Fellowship Hall)
  • Teacher: Caleb Standafer
  • Curriculum: Westminster Shorter Catechism for Kids, guide by Caroline Weerstra
  • Content: The older elementary students are learning the Westminster Shorter Catechism. The weekly lesson focus for each age group is posted on the classroom doors and in the narthex.  


God’s Family IDEA: Ask the child you are praying for to share one thing that they have learned in Sunday School or Sunday evening classes.



Kids Connect Bible Study

Wednesdays at 10am


On Wednesday mornings, children ages 4 and older (who come with their moms to the women’s Bible study) are learning Bible memory verses and Catechism question and answers using the ABC Bible Verses Curriculum by Susan Hunt. The goal of this study is to teach our children to think and live from a gospel perspective.


God’s Family IDEA: Ask a Kids Connect Bible study child to tell you one of the catechism questions he or she is learning in this class.

Children & Worship

We love children and want them to enjoy the worship of God with His family.


Each Sunday, during the worship service, we bring the children forward for a special children's sermon that relates to the pastor's sermon. We strategically put this about 25 minutes into the service so the kids can get up and move around. That helps them adjust to being in worship for an extended time.


You can also find that many of our children sit with different people each Sunday. This occurs so that the responsibility of teaching children how to worship is felt by all. We truly are a family!


We encourage children to stay and be a part of the worship service as long as they can. But we understand that might not be possible for all. To help parents, we have a TV just outside the sanctuary that streams the worship service so they can still worship with us.


In addition to that, we also provide a nursery during the service with workers that have been properly screened to ensure everyone's safety. The nursery also has a TV that streams the service so the workers and children can hear the worship service.