Children’s Church
Your children will absolutely love our Children’s Church!  It begins at 11:00 a.m. during our morning worship.  Last year we had to move to the fellowship hall due to our growth, and we are still growing!  We love it!  During Children’s Church your child will sing songs, play games, and be exposed to object lessons, memory verses, and Bible stories that go with the lesson being taught for that day.  We also try to apply each lesson to the kids’ lives, as well as do a dilemma each week.  The dilemma gives the kids an everyday situation/conflict that the kids have to decide what is the best and right way of handling it.  

 Each month we celebrate the kids’ birthdays that are in that month.  We also have a ‘store’ that we do each quarter.  Each week the kids receive a ticket for attendance, and if they bring their Bible they will receive a ticket for that.  Each week these tickets add up; so the more times a child comes to church and brings their Bible the more tickets they will receive for the store.  The kids then use their tickets on the designated store day to buy toys and candy.  The kids really look forward to Birthday Sundays and the Store.

We also celebrate the holidays with parties or some type of activity that the kids enjoy.  

We started the year off by talking about our 2010 calendar. We asked the kids what they would like to do this year besides their time in children's church.  The kids shared all kinds of ideas like parties, trips and sleepovers.  We also asked if there was any ideas on changing children's church or anything in particular they would like to learn about.  Surprisingly, the only thing they wanted to add was more crafts.  

That day, the kids were told by illustrations the story of the parable of the sower and his seed.  In summary, a farmer went out to scatter seeds in a field.  Some of the seeds fell on dirt that was packed down, hard and dry.  Some of the seeds landed amoung thorny weeds.  However, some of the seeds landed on good soil.  The farmer only got an excellent crop from the seeds that landed on good soil.  I asked the kids how did this story apply to them.  They all gave me weird looks, so I continued the parable.  
The disciples asked Jesus about the meaning of this parable.  Jesus explained that the seed represents God's word.  The field represents the people who hear the word of God.  The seeds in the hard, dry soil represents the people who hear the word but doesnt understand it because the devil is at work in his life.  His heart is too hard to understand the word.  The seeds that landed in the rocky soil represent people whose interest doesnt last long.  For instance, they have good intentions, but they give up too easily.  The seeds that landed in the thorny weeds represent someone who doesnt have room in his life for God, like spending to much time with friends, games, etc.  But the seeds that fell on the good soil represents someone who believes what the Bible says and obeys it because he love God.  Which seed are you?  I challenged the kids to be like the seed in the good soil; to pray and ask God to help them be the seed in the good soil.  

The story of the Centurion believing that Jesus could heal his servant was told to the kids.  He had so much faith that he even told Jesus to just speak the words and it would happen.  Then the verse of having the faith of a mustard seed a mountain will be moved was given to them.  The kids made bookmarks with this verse of them.  

If your child is not attending children's church they dont know what they are missing.