Children's Ministry
On Sunday Mornings, your children are welcome to stay with you during service. However, childcare/ classes are available for children up to 6th grade.
Each room always has at least two (2) trained adults. All childcare workers are background checked per California law. Parents are welcome to accompany children to their classes and sit in.
Nursery & Preschool - 0 to 5 years
Before 10AM, you can drop off your child in the nursery in the main building, near the kitchen, opposite the sanctuary. Alternatively, you can keep your child with you in the main service until the children are dismissed to go to their classrooms (around 10:30AM), when you will drop your child off at that time. You must pick up your child from the nursery after the service ends around 11:30AM.
Preschool children are taught Bible lessons and are going through the Jesus Storybook Bible.
Children’s Learning Center (CLC) - 1st to 6th graders
CLC students stay in the sanctuary for corporate worship at the start of the service. Around 10:30AM (after the catechism and corporate singing), the teachers will lead them to the “Red Room”, which is a separate building adjacent to the main building. After communion (about 11:20AM), CLC students will return to the sanctuary for the final song and announcements.
CLC students go through a chronological, Christ-centered study of the Bible. The curriculum is by Answers in Genesis.
Other Annual Events
- Vacation Bible School (VBS): One week during the summer for GBF children only. Registration and other details available late spring.
- Easter Egg Hunt: Held on Saturday Morning before Easter Sunday, the kids get to hunt for eggs, go on a scavenger hunt and learn the Easter Story.
- Reformation Celebration Night (Oct 31): We celebrate the anniversary of Martin Luther nailing the 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517.
- Nativity Celebration: In a Friday Evening in December, the children act out the Christmas story with the choir singing carols.