Children Church

April 19, 2019
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Purpose
The Children Church Ministry was established for the purpose of providing a worship experience for children 3 to 12 years old. Our goal is to train our children from small to focusing his or hers attention on the presence of God and responding to God’s presence; giving honor and praise to God; acknowledging God.

Most of the times when you ask a child to define Worship. The first word comes out of his or her mouth is — boring. That is because in many worship settings, children are seen and not heard. They see worship as something only adults do. In light of this, the Children Church Ministry has developed a program that allows children to contribute and participate meaningfully in a worship setting.

Program
Our curriculum provides:

Coming together
This session features a session-related activity the children can enter into as they arrive. This may involve making a poster, drawing pictures, making a craft, etc. The activity is loosely structured to allow fun and relaxed atmosphere for Children to gradually working their mood into worship. This session also provides children an opportunity to socialize and making the most of their time apart for the week. This session also provides teachers with a smooth transition to the next more serious sessions.Praising together
This session features singing praising song with motions to our lord with all ages involved. This activity provides an opportunity for children to learn to praise God with their voices and motions. Most of songs are short and sweet. Easy to memorized. We believed the words from those songs will be with the children for a long time to come. At the each 4^th week of the month, our children take the song they learn for that month and ministering to the adults during adult worship service.

Worship together
This session is the most sacred part of the whole hour that we are together for the day. The worship time incorporates what the children have done during coming together time. The children are brought together to the worship area and given a lecture or story about God. In addition to the main sermon (usually in the form a Bible story), this session also has the components of scripture memorizing; prayer; and offering. The Bible story may take the form of a monologue, a skit, or a reading of some kind. It is up to the teacher who presents the story to improvise. Our worship time provides children an opportunity to learn the importance of the Scripture we are trying to focus for that day.

Since our class consists of children from 3 to 12 of age. We divide the children into three groups. Namely: Children under 4 year of age; between 4 and 8 years old; and those above 8. We assign 2 teachers to each age group, and one additional teacher for praising time.

Extra Activities
In addition to the above Worship related activities. The Children Worship Ministry also engaged in different “campaigns” and “off-the-class activities” to enhance children’s tie to the Worship Ministry. For instance, an on-time campaign is on for the whole year to promote children’s reverence for God by coming to the class on time. This campaign has helped us to reduce the tardiness to the minimum. In the meantime, children greatly enjoy the prices they get from coming to class on time.

Three times a year luncheon is another activity to help to enhance the fellowship of our children. This activity provides children an opportunity to fellowship over a Pizza, Lasagna, or a Hamburger meal in an extremely relaxed setting. Teachers get to enjoy with the children as well.

Come and Join Us
Come and bring your children to join us at 9:30 am each Sunday Morning to worship God. Give your children an opportunity to worship, praise and pray to God. In the meantime, enjoy the fun and fellowship with other children of their ages.