Sunday Mornings for Kids
9:00 – 9:30 AM Bible Explorers
9:30 – 9:50 AM Children’s Choir
10:00 – 10:20 AM Worship in Sanctuary with Family
10:20 – 11:00 AM Sunday School (Godly Play or Bible Basics)
The Nursery is available from 9:00 to 11:00 AM on the second floor.
Communion Sunday Faith Five 1st Sundays 9:00 – 9:45 AM
On Communion Sundays we will offer a program for our kids and their adults before the worship service. The theme for these will be announced the month prior. For example, on the first Sunday of October families will be making and baking bread and discussing World Communion Sunday.
Sunday School 2nd-5th Sundays 10:20 – 11:00 AM (September 11th, 2022 – May 28th, 2023)
We love to have our kids in worship with us and believe the intergenerational gathering that takes place during worship on Sunday is critical to one’s spiritual development. But, we also recognize the benefit to children having their own worship and learning experience designed specifically for them. So on most Sundays, with the exception of Communion Sunday, following the children’s sermon the children are invited upstairs to our children’s wing to participate in one of the following Christian education offerings:
Godly Play (age 4 through 2nd grade)
Children will be invited to continue in worship as they leave the sanctuary and go upstairs to their own worship space. Here they will interact with a Bible story, responding to an invitation to wonder about each part of the story. Then they will have time for individual worshipful work which may include interacting with wood crafted representations of other Bible stories or creating with crafting materials, the choice is theirs. We will conclude our time together with a symbolic feast, which will include a beverage and a snack. As children leave they will receive a blessing. A special thanks to our Godly Play team: Mackenzie Hayes as our Storyteller, Barb Kean as our Door Person, Darby Winger and Stasia Fine as our Substitutes, and Bill Snapp as our Craftsman.
To learn more about Godly Play, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw_mrzZJx00&t=141s
Bible Basics (3rd through 5th grade)
Following the children’s message, our older elementary aged kids will continue their learning and fellowship upstairs in the Art room. Our Director of Discipleship, Stasia Fine has prepared a curriculum that walks the kids through the most recognized Bible stories from Genesis to the New Testament Letters. Each week we will focus on one story and one theme from that story. There will be an introductory activity or discussion, the Bible story, and an interactive way to connect with the Bible story and theme. Our teachers: Kayleigh Bryant and Stasia Fine.
Christmas Pageant Practice
During late fall and early winter there will be opportunity for kids to learn Christmas related songs and to practice for our December Christmas Pageant. Practices will take place Sunday mornings prior to our 10 a.m. worship service. Contact Stasia@fpccr.org if you are interested in taking part in this year’s Christmas pageant.