Children

The nursery is staffed with people who have a genuine love for infants.  We will gladly feed your baby when you provide a prepared bottle. Name-tags for diaper bags are available at the check-in.  You can take comfort in knowing that we will page you if your baby is inconsolable for 10 minutes.

The walkers area seeks to extend Christ’s love to your child. We share a short story using a storyboard, serve goldfish crackers and enjoy lots of interactive play. Name tags for diaper bags are available at the check-in.

The little safari area is committed to helping children know that they are specially made by God and that He loves them. On Sunday mornings they enjoy live worship (age 4 and up), a puppet show, a storyboard/story time, and two other activities that rotate from crafts to games to building block learning. We teach them using the Gospel Light curriculum and offer access to our weekly parent email which provides great at-home activities as a follow-up to the lesson.  Please contact us to receive the weekly email.

This area uses the Living Inside Out curriculum and has both large and small group time. The large group time includes live worship, a monthly skit, Bible lesson and hands-on activities. The Bible lesson is meant to be an adventure and often involves science experiments, acting things out or challenges in which the children participate. The small group time divides the children into their individual grade levels and allows them a more personal time to connect with their Safari Guides and develop relationships among their peers.

In this area we feel it is especially important that preteens understand what they believe, why they believe it and how that impacts their lives. Using the Grapple curriculum, helps them “grapple” with tough questions regarding their own faith and understand what it means to put that faith into practice. We use a large group/small group format. Large group includes live worship once a month, prayer, a game and the introduction to the topic for that week. Small group time allows students to dig into the Bible with their Safari Guides to find answers to the tough questions for that week.

This room, at the Heritage Park Campus, is on the second floor. You can hear and see the message from this room. If you are nursing, please be aware that if lights are turned on in that room, others can see you from below.

At the Heritage Park Campus there is an area where you may “hang out” with your children should they be unable to stay in the gathering or in our Safari Kids area. There you can enjoy a couch to sit on, some toys and a TV where you can continue to hear the message.  It is located behind the check-in area on the first floor.

If your child has special needs, please contact the church office so that we might work together to come up with a good plan for your child. We have a questionnaire to help us understand your child’s needs and how we can best place your child in an environment where they can thrive.

Children age four and up receive “Bible bucks” for attending, for bringing their Bibles, for memorizing the verse and other exemplary activities. These Bible bucks can be used to go shopping at our Trading Post that is open the 1st and 3rd Sundays of every month.