On most Sundays, all the children from Kindergarten and up attend the first part of the Sunday worship service with their families. After a short Children's Conversation, they are dismissed to their Sunday School classes. But on the Last Sunday of each month the children start out in their classrooms, from which they will be led to the Fellowship Hall for their own Children's Worship Service, planned and carried out by the Sunday School classes to involve hymns, prayers, scripture, a story sermon and an offering. These services are intended to give the children an opportunity to participate in a worship service using the approximate order and design as the service in the sanctuary. Stewardship One of our objectives in the Christian Education program is to encourage our children to know the blessing of giving by introducing stewardship as part of our response to God's love.
Children can experience giving in a variety of ways.
Special offering envelopes will be provided to the children to give them a personal sense of the importance of their gift and they can perhaps be encouraged to give money they themselves have earned. Offerings have enabled us to purchase a number of animals through Heifer Project, joining their efforts to end world hunger. We have special friendships in Lawrence with the Los Amigos Day Care Center, Lazarus House, Early Intervention, Neighbors in Need and My Brother's Table. Each summer through the sponsorship of Greater Lawrence Council of Churches, South Church and Free Christian Church join together to provide Vacation Bible School as an outreach to the community and enrichment for our own children's faith. We also often hold a Christmas and Easter Bible School.