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Children's Ministies - Intentional Faith Development

 

Want to know more about Children Ministry at St. John?
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Registration Form
Click here to fill out the registration form.

Sunday morning classes:  All Ages
Sunday Morning classes meet at 9:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Nursery: birth through 1 year old

Toddler/Preschool Sunday School: 2-3 year olds and 4-5 year olds. The toddler/preschool rooms have traditional Sunday school. The teachers' prepare the lesson and the students stay in their room.



Faith Quest: Kindergarten through fifth grade children and is located on the third floor of the main building. Faith Quest uses the Rotation Model of learning where children will spend 4 weeks learning about a Bible story in 7 different ways. Children will explore lessons through art, storytelling, music, science, cookery, games, and theater. The rooms have been specially designed to enhance learning for this style of teaching. Check out the photo gallery at the bottom of this page to see the Rotation rooms.



Youth Groups:
The Children Ministry has two youth groups; K2 (K-2 grades) and TFF (3-5 grades). We do fun events such as going bowling, swimming, and hayrides and service events such as singing carols at Retirement Communities and collecting food for food pantries.
Click below to see Schedule
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Wednesday Nights

Kid's RAP meets Wednesday Nights from 5:45 to 7pm for kids in Kindergarten through 5th grade. This is a mission and fellowship group.  Our goal is to have the kids actively engaged in being contributing citizens while having fun doing it. We are all about Character Building and attaching this to our faith development.
Click on link to see Schedule
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Vacation Bible School (VBS)

Usually held in June....more details to come.



Retreats
The TFF Youth Group goes on an overnight retreat to Camp Moval in the winter.

Camp
We encourage children and youth to attend summer camp at Camp Moval. For a camp schedule, please visit 
www.missourimidsouth.org/

Rotation Rooms

Faith Quest Rotation Rooms. Each room is designed to teach lessons in a special way. Acts of Faith Playhouse is designed for Puppet Ministry and drama. Faith Journeys teaches children about the journeys people from the bible went on like Paul. Mary and Martha's Garden is designed for Storytelling. Noah's Art is the art room and the Salt and Light room is our science lab. Finally, the Upper Room Theater is our not only our Theater, but our gathering place before we begin Faith Quest.

Photo Gallery