Kids & Youth

What is provided

Children are welcome at every Friday evening, and there is somewhere for them to be whichever way you would rather do it. {Which ages the nursery takes, and who is in there with them.} The children’s Bible class downstairs is for children through third grade.

{What the children actually do down there: whether it is the same passage the adults are hearing, whether there is singing, a craft, or something to eat, and roughly how long it runs.} {And what happens for a child who is older than third grade but not yet a teenager.}

Where the children go

There is no check-in desk and no procedure to work through on the way in. Your child stays with you until you decide otherwise, and nobody will suggest otherwise on your behalf. Part-way through the evening we pray for the children, and any who would like to can go down with a parent then.

{Where downstairs is, described as though you were telling somebody on the phone: which door, which stairs, and whether a parent stays or comes back up.} {And how a child gets back to you if they would rather not be down there after all.}

Safeguarding

{What is in place for children here, stated exactly as it is: what checks the people working with children have and who carries them out, whether two adults are always present, and who is responsible for it.} If the honest answer to any of that is that nothing formal exists yet, write that instead. A parent who reads a comfortable sentence and finds out later is worse off than one who was told plainly.

{And how a concern is raised: who it goes to, what happens next, and who to go to instead if the concern is about that person.} Parents who care about this look for it, and its absence from a church website is noticed.

Older children and youth

{What there is for teenagers, if there is anything. If the honest answer is not much yet, say so in those words and say what a family of that age would find instead.} A short true answer is worth more to a parent than a paragraph that turns out to describe an ambition.