Children's Ministry

Think Orange. That is what we do at South Shore.

What would happen if…

…churches started believing in the potential of the family to influence their own kids?

…families started believing in the potential of the church to influence their sons and daughters?

Better yet, what if both churches and families started believing in the potential of combining their influences to accomplish the same mission.

Orange happens when church leaders synchronize their efforts to implement a comprehensive strategy from preschool to college to incite wonder, provoke discovery and fuel passion in the hearts of sons and daughters so they can see God for who He is, so they can see themselves they way God sees them and so they can love others they way God does.

Our vision is to partner with families to maximize parents’ influence in their children’s lives. Orange… the light of the church and the heart of the family…because two combined influences make a greater impact than just two influences.

It is important for us to recognize what is at stake if our children and teenagers walk away from our churches without a concept of God that captures the imagination. We need to show them the wonder, mystery and power of a God who is too big for them, or us, to define, yet who has proven through time and space that God loves them intimately. There is an entire generation that is searching for something bigger than what they have perceived the church has to offer.

Orange, it’s not just a curriculum, it’s a strategy.

Sundays at South Shore

Nursery is offered at the 8:30 am Worship and the 9:45 am for infants and children through age 4 and at the 11:00 am Worship for infants and children through age 2.

Programming for Preschoolers is offered during the 9:45 am Family Experience and 11:00 am Worship. The curriculum is simple and fun, repeating one basic truth about God all month long. Crazy fun activities, crafts, group Bible story, worship time—it’s all part of a plan to help a child believe three key things by the time they are five years old:

*God Made me

*God loves me

*Jesus wants to be my friend forever

We offer two Small Group Eexperiences for Children on Sundays,at 9:45 am and the 11:00 am . We want every child who participates in the Family Experience and their Small Group Experience to group up to demonstrate:

*WISDOM: I need to make wise choices

*FAITH: I can trust God no matter what

*FRIENDSHIP: I should treat others the way I want to be treated