Children’s Worship

Kids aged 4 through 2nd grade join their families for the first part of the worship service and then are invited to head to Children’s Worship at the beginning of greeting time. Our volunteers will greet kids and parents at check-in and return the children to the service after Communion, just before the service ends.

During Children’s Worship, our City Kids grow in their love, knowledge, and understanding of God through interactive and creative lessons in a kid-friendly environment. From the very beginning, our curriculum points to Jesus as the central story in all of scripture and gives our children space to wonder and marvel at the loving God who created them. Kids learn through play, scripture memorization, storytelling, and hands-on activities—all designed to engage their minds and hearts with the living Word of God, the Bible.

All Children’s Worship volunteers are members or regular attendees of City Church. Each volunteer is required to fill out an application, undergo a criminal background check, and become well-versed in City Church’s Child Safety Policy. We also require volunteers to participate in a training course to be qualified to take part in our Children’s Ministry.

Our hope is that their time in Children's Worship and forming faith at home with their families will lead our kids to becoming communing members at City Church. Each fall we offer a class for rising 3rd graders who are transitioning out of Children’s Worship that highlights and reviews the main tenets of our faith, asks kids to examine their own faith journeys, and digs into what it would look like for them to become participating members of our church body. While we feel that membership decisions lie primarily with the families of our City Kids (and the kids themselves), we hope this class will help children and families assess readiness for making this important step. (This class is required for any child 3rd grade and older who wishes to become a communing member of City Church).