Children's Ministry
We encourage families to worship together at CCPC. Each Sunday we start our worship service together in the sanctuary. Following the children's message, Sunday school is available for children from Cradle Roll through Senior High and occurs during the first service.
At 10:30, parents of children in Cradle Roll should pick them up from Cradle Roll. Toddlers through kindergartners should be picked up in the Busy Bee Room at 10:30. Teachers of children in grades one through five will bring the children to Dodds Hall at 10:30.
Throughout the year, children and their families enjoy many activities such as tagging butterflies, movie nights, trunk-or-treating at the church, participating in Christmas pageants, sharing meals during Lenten dinners, bringing blossoms for the cross at Easter and egg hunts. Each summer, our lively Vacation Bible School encourages children to learn more about the Bible through music, games and hands activities. We feel strongly that children are an important part of our worship community.
- 9:30 Children's Sunday school
"Believe in God, believe also in me." - John 14:1
Children are dismissed for Sunday school classes after the children’s message.
Our children's Sunday school classes use the Live B.I.G. (Believing In God) curriculum. This multimedia program helps our children come to know the love of God and live out their belief in their everyday lives by utilizing the three ways children learn -- hearing, seeing, and then living what they learn.
The Live B.I.G. program blends Scripture lessons with dramatic videos, hands-on activities, discussion, music videos, songs, dance and games, each designed to catch a child's interest and help reveal the very real love of God.
Other Activities
- Family Nights
- Easter Celebrations
- Blessing of Backpacks
- Christmas Pageants
- Movie Nights
- Tagging Monarch Butterflies
- Halloween Party: An afternoon filled with fun and games including “trunk-or-treat.”
- Signs of Spring Hike: We hike to see where we can find spring, followed by a fire with hot dogs and s’mores.
- …and more!
Email Update List
If you would like to join our e-mail list to
receive more detailed information on CCPC kids
happenings, please e-mail Rebecca Coleman, Coordinator of Ministry to Children and Their Families at
ccpckids@gmail.com
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Vacation Bible School : Each summer, our lively and entertaining VBS encourages children to learn more about the Bible through music, games, crafts and other hands-on activities. The week long, inter-generational effort brings not only the CCPC community together to teach, lead music, orchestrate crafts, prepare dinners and snacks, but members of the Youth Group are crew leaders for groups of children and members of the community help lead a community-wide mission.
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Belair Cooperative Nursery School
The Belair Cooperative Nursery School is an accredited non-profit, non-sectarian, and non-partisan organization. Its purpose is to provide children with a group experience that extends the values of family life by fostering a sense of community involvement. The school encourages participation in the natural, social, and cultural environment. Parental involvement is an essential part of this school.
The school operates five days a week, from September through May. They offer programs for 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds. The 3-year-old class meets on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 9:00 to 12:00. The 4-year-old class meets on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings from 9:00 to 12:00. Classes are limited to 15 students each.
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Special Events
Souper Bowl of Caring
The Youth and Sunday School kids will be COMPETING against the Sunday School kids to see who raises the most money and collects the most cans after the services on Sunday!!! For more information, visit http://www.souperbowl.org.
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Some of Our Past Activities
Trunk or Treat
CCPC enjoys its own version of Trick or Treat, as costumed children make the rounds of members' decorated car trunks gathering candy and treats. Prior to gathering candy, the children have a carnival in Dodds Hall. The Youth Group organizes a Haunted House.
Blessing of the Backpacks
As our children prepare to return to school, we give them a special blessing. A prayer from a previous "blessing of the backpacks":
Thank you God for these children. Bless them as they go to school - preschool, grade school, middle & high schools - even college. Guard them, and guide them. Send your angels to camp around them and their schools. Give each of them a good friend to play with and eat lunch with. Bless all of their teachers, and help each one of these children as they learn new things - and as they do their homework. Dear God, give all of these children a wonderful year of new experiences and exciting things. Let them each know that You love them - even more than we love them.
Thank you for being our God. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Maundy Thursday
The service includes liturgical dance with special music. The children will accompany the cross outside the church and assist in placing it in the ground.
Easter Sunday
Worship at 7:00 AM in the Sanctuary followed by breakfast
9:30 AM Worship with Special Music
Children's Easter Celebration, including blossoming the cross, special Easter story and Easter egg hunt after the Children's Message during the 9:30 service.
Horse Shoe Crab Tagging
Dick Arnold explained about crab tagging to Sunday School children.
Tagging Butterflies
Dick Arnold visited Sunday School and showed us how butterflies are tagged so that their migration can be tracked. He brought in plenty of butterflies for the kids to release!
Vacation Bible School
Pandamania, where God is wild about you, had kids making friends, singing and dancing, doing crafts, playing in the water-- and most importantly-- learning about God! Registration was free and open to all children Pre-K through 5th grade. Crews leaders for each group included youth sixth grade through high school. The mission project was collecting school supplies.
CCPC provided Galactic Blast, an out-of-this-world Vacation Bible School adventure in 2010. Cadets started their journeys at 6:00 p.m. each night with dinner and then began their mission of fun with games, stories, and even science experiments. Registration was free and open to all children Pre-K through 5th grade.
The VBS mission project was Soles for Souls. We collected new and gently worn shoes for those without shoes. The children enjoy being involved and giving back to the community--the shoes were delivered to Haiti in person by Marilee Neff.
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