Pre Service – Our students are welcomed by our leaders and spend the time leading up the service enjoying everything our room has to offer. We have a climbing wall, toys that are easy to pick up and play, drawing areas on the wall as well as on the tables, snack station providing either goldfish or cinnamon toast crunch, video game stations featuring an Xbox, Wii U, and Switch. This time is meant to create a safe place for kids to feel welcomed into our room and engage with their peers and leaders.

Beginning of Service – The first 15 minutes of the service we spend in a game! Some times these games are the ice breaker types, which help students meet others. These games can be high energy, but we strive to create a game environment that invites everyone to play and participate!

Rule Video – After our game we watch a rule video, which highlights the do’s and don’ts of the room as well as our values of respecting one another in the room.

Small Group Connect – This is our space for kids to really talk to and connect with their leader and other kids their same gender and age. This time is about 10 minutes long, our leaders invite the students to dialogue about their week, what they are excited about, or just to enter into conversation with one another.

Transition Video – Every week we find a fun entertaining video for the kids to watch while they grab chairs and get situated for the next elements of our service.

Worship – Every weekend our worship leader leads us in five songs. Three of those songs are fun, hand motion filled, loud songs meant to worship God with our whole bodies! The following two songs are slower, standard songs. During these songs we take a moment to encourage kids to take advantage of this moment that God has given them to connect with him. There are a couple things we encourage our kids to during that time: either use the songs as a way to sing to him and worship him, grab a card and pen and jot down a letter to him and add it to our prayer wall, ask one of our leaders for prayer or utilize one of our prayer guides.

Message – Our message Length is no longer than twenty minutes. However our teaching techniques vary from week to week. We cycle through four different styles. An Experiential teaching, a narrative, logical and practical. These techniques are to help students with different learning styles engage in the material we are covering. Check out our Three year curriculum for a better idea of what we are teaching!

Small Group Questions – This is our final element of our service, students here rejoin their small groups. The leader facilities a discussion around the teaching. This is meant to be a conversation the student have to help them put in their own words what they learned and think through how to apply it to their lives.

Post Service Hang – We try to release our students right when the main services finish. Sometimes we are still in small group. However, if we finish our small group question time early, students are invited to engage in the same preservice activities. Once main service finishes, students are dismissed if they have a place to meet their parents, otherwise, they are welcome to hang out until they are picked up. We do love to have parents and family in our room hanging out together and we believe this is a great opportunity to get to know one another and build community.