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All of the children at Park contribute to worship services in many ways, from singing in the choir, to reading the liturgy to leading prayers. Join us to have your children experience worship in meaningful ways, to explore their faith and to serve their community. At Park, kids are an important part of our worship community. We value their contributions, their questions and their unquenchable desire to contribute meaningfully in the world.

Nursery || Sunday School || Junior Youth Fellowship || Senior Youth Fellowship

Nursery Care at Park

Nursery care is available from 9:30 AM through 12:30 PM upstairs in a dedicated space especially designed for babies through preschoolers.

Sunday School at Park

We offer Sunday School for children from kindergarten through fifth grade. Every 4 to 6 weeks we begin a new unit during which we will cover a topic through music, art, science, drama and storytelling. This model, known as the Rotation Model, allows our children to experience the bible stories through many avenues, allowing them to learn in the manner that best suits them. Sunday school is an exciting time of hands on learning at its best!
Kindergarten through fifth grade children stay through the beginning of the worship service. After ‘Words For Young Worshippers’, a specially prepared mini-sermon to engage this age group in the meaning of the day’s message, the children go upstairs for Sunday School until 11:15 AM.

Junior Youth Fellowship at Park

Our 6th through 8th graders gain experience and knowledge of the bible through worship discussion circles, through confirmation classes, and through many hands on service experiences around our community. One avenue the JYF use to learn about their faith, is to investigate other religions and compare their history and beliefs to ours. They keep busy with many projects including making and delivering pies to our parishioners who can’t make it to church, making blankets for children at various local agencies and raising money for local and world hunger.

JYF meets during Sunday School, for a discussion circle of the liturgy. They meet after church for confirmation classes and special projects, fund raising for trips, service activities, etc.

Senior Youth Fellowship at Park

The 9th through 12 grade kids are an active bunch at Park Church. From making Mother’s Day Breakfast for all of the Park Church mothers to traveling to Guatemala to work at the mission in the village of San Lucas Toliman, these kids keep busy. They have a great sense of world community and responsibility and we build on that to encourage them to think about their place in the world. They explore their faith in a hands-on way—for instance, visiting a local hotel for a special service and learning that, “there is no room at the inn,” so they held their special Christmas service by candle light near the dumpster in back, the only place the Inn had space. They fast each year for 30 hours, raising money for world hunger organizations and walk the crop walk in October to help fund local hunger organizations.

SYF meets during Sunday School, for a discussion circle of the liturgy. They meet after church for special projects, fund raising for their Guatemala trip, service activities, etc.