Children's Ministry: Ages 0-5th grade

Nancy Raymond

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Our Children's ministry is focused on developing the whole child, Mind, Body & Spirit. 

Nursery care is always available in our clean, brightly painted and safely appointed nursery area.  Pagers are available for parents to keep you in contact with our loving care-givers at all times.

K-5th grade children begin their Sunday experience in the sanctuary, learning the rhythm of adult worship and participating in meaningful ways.  After about 15 minutes, our children receive a sung blessing from the congregation and are invited to continue their worship and learning downstairs in one of our fully equipped Worship Centers with two-person teaching teams leading their experience until adult worship ends.

Our program focuses on teaching "liturgical intelligence" - helping children develop a firm foundation in "how to be church" together.  They listen and speak, pray and contemplate, be still and move, make offering  and receive blessing, they learn and teach, express their needs and learn to serve.  All of this is taught experientially as they explore the lesson of the day and respond to that teaching in a variety of ways through movement and the arts.

Our Christian Education Board has selected the Seasons of the Spirit curriculum to guide our teaching teams each week.  To learn more about seasons see www.spiritseason.com .  Seasons of the Spirit coordinates meaningfully each week with our pastor's message inviting children and their parents to explore their shared experience at home and during the week.

Our children are invited to participate in communion on the first Sunday of each month and we offer an opportunity for children to stay through the entire sanctuary worship on a regular basis so that parents and their children can worship together.  More than anything our Children's ministry seeks to be responsive to helping our parents become the primary spiritual teachers of their children.  We are here to help you grow together!