EKiBB - Ministry for Children and Youth Ministry for Children and Youth Children are part of parish life and meet one another in parish activities, whether they are baptized or not. Catechists, pastors, Christian educators, deacons, and volunteers who bring the children together want to give them warmth and shelter. This is done by each parish through different kinds of activities. In the fifties it was built up as the church's own catechist service.
Children experience being part of the wider church where they are accepted as equals.
Being in a minority situation as Christians in school and in their residential area, these experiences can especially help to make them more self-confident, develop creativity, and later can help them to find their place in society and in the church. The Protestant child day care centers contribute much to the care of children. The jurisdiction, responsibility and management for the individual institutions lie with the holders, that is, with the parishes or church districts. In many parishes the sense of responsibility for their child day care centers has grown, and, at the same time, the sense of belonging to the parish has increased in many child day care centers. A special challenge for the individual holders, together with the parents and the personnel, is the promoting of a distinctive Protestant profile for the child day care centers.