Welcome to Orchard Kids!
We are glad you are here and invite you to come and enjoy all of our opportunities for children birth through 5th grade and their families. We are excited to partner with parents and grandparents as you raise your children to know, love and serve Jesus. We seek to provide safe and intentional experiences where children will have fun, make friends and grow in faith!
YOUR FIRST VISIT
Visiting us for the first time?
Please register your child - click here!
When your family arrives for the 10:30 am worship service, follow the steps up from the parking lot (or up the ramp with your stroller) to the Worship Center and main patio.
Stop at the Welcome Center counter and get a name tag for your child.
After the opening worship songs, announcements and children’s message, children preschool through 5th grade will be dismissed and escorted down the steps to the Children’s Center. Be sure to send your child wearing the name tag.
Children are always welcome to stay with you in the worship service.
Children birth through 3 years may be dropped off to the nursery in the Children’s Center before worship. After the service, please pick up your children in the Children’s Center. You may want to stay in the playground area and let your child play while you get to know other parents, or you may want to take your kids back up to the main patio and enjoy a snack and fellowship!
Our friendly Children's Minsitry Team will help you check your child and answer any questions you may have. We can't wait to meet you!
OUR MISSION
Throughout our Children’s Center and time together you will likely see and hear the words “Gather, Grow and Go.”
Gather: We believe God intends for us to worship, play, learn, pray and serve in community with one another, so our Orchard Kids ministry team is intentional about providing opportunities to foster friendship among our children and families. We hope your family will get connected and find a home at Orchard to put down roots.
Grow: Whether you are new to Orchard or have been here for years, Orchard Kids wants to see your child grow and thrive. Our lessons help children dig into the Bible, acquaint children with the characters found in scripture and engage children in discussions and experiences which lead to knowing and following Jesus. At Orchard Kids your child will get to practice the spiritual disciplines of worship, Bible study, prayer, fellowship and service to others.
Go: We hope that the lessons learned at Orchard Kids will lead to respond to what they have learned by taking their faith, love and hope home with them, ready to serve and lead and help others.
CORE VALUES
We are a community that is committed to providing a safe and loving environment that:
KIDS CLUB
Wednesdays 3:00 -4:30 pm
Children preschool through 5th grade are invited to join us Wednesday after school during the school year. Children rotate with their age group through activities like:
Throughout the year we include a few special events and performances.
Parent & Me playgroup
Wednesdays 3:00 -4:30 pm
Session 1
August 21-October 23
3:00-4:30 in Orchard's Sonflower Nursery
Parents with infants and toddlers are invited to come and explore our play space and activities while connecting with other parents. We will also have a short Circle Time!
$5 per family for the two months.
Children's Center
FAQ's
Sheryl’s SonFlower Nursery
The Nursery is open 15 minutes before and after the service and is staffed by qualified, background checked, and trained volunteers. Make sure that if it is your first Sunday with us, you fill out the Welcome Forms so that we have your cell phone number in case of emergency, leaving you to worship with peace of mind!
We welcome all little ones' birth through 3 years to come and play with our loving and dedicated volunteers. Please label all belongings. After the service, please pick up your children in the Children's Center. They will only be able to leave with the adults named on their form.
You are welcome to stay in the playground area and let your child play while you get to know other parents, or join us up on the main patio and enjoy a snack and fellowship!
Not ready to leave your child?
Feel free to come use the back room of the Nursery to nurse or use the changing stations in the Nursery.
Children are always welcome in the service.
The Worship Center's back corner has a room with large windows where a parent can stay with a squirmy or crying baby but still watch and listen to the service.
Pre-K through 5th grade kids are invited to come start worship with us. After a few songs, announcements, and the Kids Messages, the kids are escorted down to the Children's Cetner to follow their trained Orchard Kids volunteers to the Children's Ministry classrooms and playground for the rest of service where they will have a blast!
After the service, please pick up your children in the Children’s Center. They will only be able to leave with the adults named on their form.
You are welcome to stay in the playground area and let your child play while you get to know other parents, or join us up on the main patio and enjoy a snack and fellowship!
Of course children are always welcome to stay with you in the service if you or they prefer.
Volunteers at Orchard Kids are trained to create an atmosphere where families can confidently leave their children while they are in service. Every volunteer is screened with a background check and have completed the Orchard Kids Training Course.
At Orchard, we celebrate communion (the Lord’s Supper) on the first Sunday of each month. We encourage parents to talk with your child each month about this very special observance. Jesus commanded his followers to remember and celebrate his great love for us by participating in this unusual meal, following the example he set when he ate with his disciples. Communion reminds us that Jesus died so that we might be forgiven. The bread represents Jesus’ body and the juice or wine represents his blood which he shed. Participating in communion with people who are also thinking about what Jesus did for us brings us closer to God and to other followers of Jesus.
All who believe and put their trust in Jesus as their Lord and Savior are invited and encouraged to be baptized.
The waters of baptism (whether we are baptized from the church fount, a swimming pool or the ocean) symbolize the cleansing of our sins and our being born into new life in Christ and the family of God.
Parents are invited and encouraged to bring their infants and children forward for baptism, knowing that God’s promises are for them. Scripture says, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.” Acts 2:38-39
Parents interested in more information on baptism are invited to contact Pastor Matt Hoyt or Melinda Hoyt.
Melinda Hoyt
Children's Ministry Director
(805)647-3757
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