Our Pillars
- The Bible
Our children’s ministry is fundamentally built upon biblical truth. We believe that teaching God’s Word needs to surpass cognitive knowledge, and needs to extend into a child’s everyday living as a disciple of Jesus. At every opportunity we teach our children bible stories, demonstrating how to apply key biblical truth into to their own daily lives. - Prayer
In everything we do, we seek to do so in dialogue with God. This is done through cultivating a discipline of prayer –diligently seeking God and intentionally creating space to hear from Him in response. - Worship
Keeping God as the ultimate headship of our lives, church and ministry we model and teach our kids what it means to express adoration and reverence toward God. We believe worship includes praise, service, and surrender. Within our children’s ministry, we express worship through creative forms such as music, prayer, art, and drama. - Having Fun
Underpinning all we do is the understanding that learning and personal growth is most effective when kids are enjoying what they are doing. Through child-focussed and age appropriate activities, we seek to show kids that discipleship and spiritual transformation can be a lot of fun. - Safety
We believe feeling safe is an important part to healthy engagement with God’s word and God’s community. We are committed to ensuring a child’s experience of church is physically, emotionally, and spiritually safe. We carry out this commitment through adhering to a range of policies and procedures.
Our People
- Our Kids
First and foremost, our children’s ministry is built to reach, serve, and disciple our kids. Investing into the spiritual growth and encouraging the discipleship journey of each of our kids is the key basis and purpose of everything we do. Remaining child-focussed, we endeavour to view every element of our ministry through the eyes of our kids with the goal that our kids experience a place of belonging, designed just for them. - Our Parents
We are passionate about partnering with families, recognising parents hold the most significant role in developing their child’s spiritual growth and wellbeing. We are dedicated to empowering, championing and equipping parents to disciple their children, and inviting them into the work we are doing in children’s ministry. - Our Team
Those who lead our children’s ministry hold an all-important role, and we believe in honouring them through effective training, support, communication and leadership development. We believe we are called to collaborate in a team, partnering together to achieve Our Purpose. We seek to be strengths-based, celebrating the unique giftings each of our team members bring, and providing opportunity for them to flourish in the significant role they hold as the leaders of our children’s ministry.
When you arrive on Sunday morning
Carey Kids runs during our Sunday worship gathering. The children start in the service with their families and are encouraged to engage in worship with musical instruments and in other ways.
In this season we have the children all together although we are hoping to be able to offer something for our 12-year-olds and older in due course. These children and teens are welcome into the all-in-class and there are plenty of younger children who are glad of their help and company!
Our program for the kids includes fun games and use of the wonderful outdoor area we have on campus, and each week there is a bible story focus and related activities. Usually the children have something they have made to take home as a reminder of what we learned together in Carey Kids.
We have a sign up and check in system which you can access in the foyer on arrival or you can pre register your child/ren by using this form. Children under the age of 11 need to be brought to and collected from the Carey Kids zone by a parent.
