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Children's Worship
9:50-10:25am
Here at Valley Church, children are valued and nurtured. We are committed to helping them learn how to worship. Perhaps they won't always understand what is going on , or what is being said, but children can understand that this is a place where they are loved and accepted. They can come to understand that we place great value on worshipping God as a community. They can begin learning this practice at a young age.
If we designed a church for our littlest members there would be a lot more noise, random movement, spontaneous laughter and tears, shouts of joy, and plenty of stories. We could do better as a congregation to worship more like our children which is why starting this fall we are encouraging our children to stay with us in worship. To teach us. We imagine that they will learn a lot too. Children in second through fifth grade will remain in worship with their parents and other trusted adults. Worship bags and other materials are provided in the children's corner of the Narthex.
Children ages 2 through 1st grade may choose to leave the traditional service (9:30am) after the Time for Children to attend children's worship hosted by our Christian Educator, Wendy Fields. They will praise God with prayer and songs, hear stories using the Godly Play method, and respond to these stories with engaging activities. Children will be ushered to their Sunday School classrooms at the end of Children's Worship.
Children four years of age or older will remain in the Wellsprings service (11:15) throughout. It is a smaller family friendly service with energetic music, pictures, and a special place in the sanctuary for small children and their parents to sit and dance around. Communion is served weekly. Children age five and younger may choose to visit the nursery.