Children's Ministries

The 2022-2023 Sunday School year will start on August 21st and run from 9:30 to 10:15 am. Parents are encouraged to come and enjoy fellowship during this time!

Worship service begins at 8:00 am and 10:30 am. Nursery is provided during the second service only.

To allow for holidays, we will not have Sunday School on certain Sundays. You can check our calendar here.

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.

We also provide a children’s bulletin to help your child listen to the sermon. For a better understanding of our philosophy of children's ministry, please listen to the following three-part sermon series on "Children and the Covenant Community":

SUNDAY SCHOOL

All curriculum is from Truth78.com.

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: POUR OUT YOUR HEART

This is a middle school curriculum of the book of Psalms, encouraging students to see God as the trustworthy, covenant-keeping God, who invites them into a personal relationship through Jesus.

14 - 18 YEAR OLDS: YOUR WORD IS TRUTH

The goal of this high school curriculum is to teach students to understand and embrace the authoritative truth of the Bible. Students develop a biblical worldview as they interpret life through the lens of Scripture.