Children's Ministries
The 2024-2025 Sunday School year will start on August 18th with classes from 9:30 to 10:15 am for children and teens who are age 4 -18 as of September 1st.
We provide a nursery ministry during the 10:30 service for babies and toddlers, age 0-3. The nursery will be available every Sunday, but we will have no Sunday School classes on December 1, December 22, March 9, and no classes during Summer Break.
Please read on to learn more about our ministries and to see what curriculum is being taught this school year.
OUR VISION
The vision of Tapestry Community Church (TCC) is to live for the glory of Christ that the world may see our joyous hope as we love God, love people, and reach the world with the gospel. As a result, the goal for the TCC children’s ministry is to strive to offer a God glorifying, Bible saturated Nursery and Sunday School classes. Our desire is that the children’s ministry will be a launching pad for nurturing the faith of the next generation.
NURSERY
Our nursery is a place for children (up to 48 months) to learn simple truth statements as they form language skills, as well as a place where they hear foundational Bible stories. Our desire is to minister to the youngest in our church and to partner with parents as they train up their children in the Lord. During the designated lesson time, the teacher will pray with and for each individual child. The Nursery ministry is using the Children Desiring God curriculum called A Sure Foundation.
CHILDREN IN THE WORSHIP SERVICE
God-centered worship is extremely important in the life of Tapestry Community Church. We approach the Sunday morning worship time with great seriousness, earnestness, and expectancy. One of the ways we reflect this truth to our children is by welcoming them into the most central, most regular, most valuable, and most corporate activity of the church. When we encourage families to worship together, we communicate to the children that they are a part of the congregation and, as such, should be included when the church gathers to worship.
The presence of children also serves as a reminder to the church of its responsibility to nurture the faith of the next generation. We believe that children should be active participants in our worship service from the opening prayer to the benediction. Beginning at age 4 we heartily encourage parents to bring them into the service. We know that this effort comes with challenges and difficulties for the children, their parents, and those sitting around them. However, we are eager for children and their parents to feel and experience our warmest welcome into the service, and we are eager for everyone to be able to engage in the worship service with minimal distractions. A child does not instantly understand how to behave in a corporate worship service. It requires training and discipline. A good resource to help train your children is found here: Strategies for Engaging Children in the Worship Service.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
All curriculum is from Truth78.org.
4 - 5 YEAR OLDS: HE ESTABLISHED A TESTIMONY
This preschool curriculum explores God’s greatness by noting key themes found chronologically in the Old Testament.
6 - 7 YEAR OLDS: FAITHFUL TO HIS PROMISES
God’s character is trustworthy, therefore his promises are true and reliable. This is a curriculum for children on the promises and character of God.
8 - 9 YEAR OLDS: TO BE LIKE JESUS
This curriculum is an essential study to help elementary students understand salvation and sanctification explained through the promise of the gospel.
10 - 11 YEAR OLDS: MY PURPOSE WILL STAND
God is the Sovereign Ruler of the universe, continually at work in His world. This is a curriculum on the providence of God.
12 - 13 YEAR OLDS: RIGHTEOUS SHALL LIVE BY FAITH, then POUR OUT YOUR HEART
Our middle school students will start the year studying the Ten Commandments which serve as a framework to understand the underlying themes of law and grace. Then, for most of the year their curriculum will use the book of Psalms to teach simple Bible study skills, encouraging students to see God as the trustworthy, covenant-keeping God, who invites them into a personal relationship through Jesus.
14 - 18 YEAR OLDS: OPEN MY EYES
High school students will focus on how to study the Bible. This curriculum guides students through different genres of biblical literature and the process of inductive Bible study with opportunities to practice the skills of observation, interpretation and application.