Shore Kids

Our church community is not just for grown ups!  We have over 130 children at Shore and we actively reach out to kids in our local community with the love and good news of Jesus.  Kids are central to our church life and we seek to involve them, nurture them and support them in various ways.

Sunday Morning Kids' Programmes

While our 9am service is happening we run exciting programmes for kids in the surrounding classrooms at Albany Junior High School. These programmes are divided into four age-appropriate streams (note: these are only available during our first service):

Creche (newborns - 2 years)
Our crèche provides a relaxed environment where parents can either drop children off or stay with them. In crèche, our trained leaders play music with the children and engage with them through rhyming games and puppet plays. Parents can feed their children in crèche and can bring the into the crèche as needed throughout the service.

Dynomites (2 - 5 years)
In Dynomites, toddlers enjoy play time as well as a structured programme involving both large group and small group activities. Our leaders use music, stories, crafts and props, and develop their relationships with the children to communicate truths from the Bible in a way these kids can understand.

Superkids (primary school age)
Superkids provides an opportunity for kids to explore who God is and what faith in Jesus is all about. We begin with some time for games and activities, then move into a large group teaching time where a trained leader takes a lesson based on biblical ideas. These lessons follow a curriculum that is followed right through the year. From these large groups, kids then break into smaller groups with their own dedicated leaders. This is a vital time for the kids to connect with each other and their leader and dig deeper into how Jesus can change their lives everyday.

GAP (intermediate Age)
For our year 7-8 kids, GAP is provided as a transitional programme between SuperKids and our Youth Ministry. GAP is based around group clusters where kids interact with their leaders as they work through a lesson based on principles from the Bible. GAP helps kids to relate to each other in this small group environment, which forms the foundation of our teenage youth programmes.

 

Mainly Music

Mainly Music is a preschool music programme that we run on Wednesday mornings. This is a great way for mums to connect with each other in a relaxed environment and for preschoolers to have heaps of fun! 

The programme runs at 9:30am on Wednesday morning. Prior booking is essential. 

For more information on Mainly Music, contact our Family Pastor, Biffy Savage—biffy@shore.org.nz, phone 415 0455.

 

Other Activities and Events

As well as our Sunday morning programmes, we run other activities especially for kids, as well as events that help to integrate children into the life of our church.
These include:
-  A combined family service once a year where children actively participate in the service.
- A Light Party as a positive alternative to Halloween
- Social events outside of Sunday mornings that are age-specific and based around the groups and relationships formed on Sundays, as well as one Kids Church outing per year involving all our kids.
- Special outreach events at Christmas and Easter that kids are encouraged to invite their friends to.

For more information on Children's Ministry at Shore, contact our Children's Pastor, Maxine Finlay maxine@shore.org.nz, phone 415 0455