Children’s ministry is a process that connects children with Jesus and His Story. Children’s ministry is a process;
•It’s helping children become more like Jesus over time. It involves a series of actions or steps that children take to achieve the desired end.

•The process begins when we invite children to connect with Jesus and His Story. It develops as the grace and glory of Jesus are revealed.

•The aim of the process is for children to abandon every worldly allegiance and be relentlessly committed to Jesus.

•It happens as children are filled with the Holy Spirit and enlivened by God’s Story.
That connects children with Jesus

•Children’s ministry is relational.
•It happens when children get together with Jesus, i.e. when they’re increasingly captivated by Him.
•The connection begins as children see the glory, wonder and beauty of Jesus; embrace Him in their hearts, and genuinely surrender their lives to live only all for Him. It matures as they worship and walk in His ways (Philippians 2:10-11, Psalm 128:1).
•The core of children’s ministry is this connection with Jesus. That connects children with His Story.
•Children’s ministry is informed.
•It requires children to engage with God’s Story and receive and re-enact it by actively engaging in it.
•When children internalize God’s Story, it gives meaning and value to their lives.
•It begins when a child’s story is united with and reconfigured by God’s Story. It develops as children learn to indwell the whole Story and be indwelt by the Story. And it matures as children obey and live out the Story in their daily lives.
•This connection with God’s Story is what frames and forms children’s ministry. That is, God’s Story is the underlying and unifying Word through which Jesus makes Himself known to children.

Grace Kidz is offered at both our 9am and 11am Worship Services.