Overview 

We strive to meet the needs of families on Sunday morning by offering nursery, Sunday School and Children’s Church. Our Children’s Ministries are designed to “show Jesus” to children beginning with infancy through fifth grade.  We work to do so in a way that is true to Scripture and uses strategies that are geared to the spiritual, educational, physical, and social-emotional needs of our students based on their age.  We take our role of coming alongside our parents very seriously, including the safety of all our children.  Therefore, all of our Children’s Ministries programs are staffed by volunteers who are members of the ECPC congregation that have been through a nationwide background check and security clearance interview process.

Sunday Morning Offerings

  Nursery

 We offer an infant and toddler nursery during both worship services: 9:15a.m. & 10:45a.m. 

The heart of what we do is care for the little ones.  In the Infant Nursery, we are holding, rocking, changing and loving on the babies.  With the toddlers, we are playing, comforting, teaching, laughing and loving on them. This is the crux of what we do.  But, there’s more, because the other side of the Nursery Ministry is to the parents.  As we are caring for the children, we are freeing up moms & dads to be able to worship freely without worrying about their children. This is incredibly valuable and a precious time for little ones to begin to learn to worship the Lord while we plant seeds of worship.  Meanwhile, we are pleased to offer parents the ability to have an uninterrupted opportunity to grow in their relationship with the Lord through corporate worship.  

We do believe in covenantal worship and therefore children of all ages are welcome and encouraged to worship with their family. We do have a cry room at the back of the sanctuary for families who prefer to keep their infant children with them, but pose a distraction to other worshippers.

 Children’s Church

Children’s Church is held during the 9:15 a.m. worship hour year round and is designed for children between the ages of 4 and 6 (as of September 1st).  It is led by one or two of the officers of the church and their wives.  The purpose of the class is to instruct children in the art of worship where they can “learn by doing”.  Their time includes music, prayer, Bible lesson (taught chronologically), an offering, and a coloring activity.  Worship concepts and key words are explained and modeled by the leaders.  This class is dismissed from the sanctuary just before the offering.  Children’s Church meets in the classroom located in the room above the sanctuary.

 Two and Three Year Olds

These two classes are taught year round during both the 9:15 and 10:45 hours.  These classes use age-appropriate activities and Bible lessons to communicate God’s love to our youngest children.  

Sunday School  (throughout the school year) 

   KidConnect is our Sunday School program designed for students between the ages of 4 and 5th grade.  Held in the gym during the 10:45 hour, it uses a large group/small group format.  This means that all the students are together for the first 30 minutes during which they sing and participate in an icebreaker activity and a presentation of the weekly Bible lesson. Then they break into small groups (divided by age/grade) with a small group leader.  During their small group time, they connect with their small group leader, pray, think and discuss what they’ve learned.  The leaders help them do this by including activities that incorporate different modalities and types of learning.  

Children’s Bulletin

Because we believe strongly that God created children as worshippers we provide a special Children’s Bulletin each week.  This bulletin helps students (ages 6 through 10) to identify the different parts of worship, to better listen and understand the worship and sermon that Sunday, and to facilitate family discussion during the week.  This bulletin is created by our Children’s Ministries Director in conjunction with Pastor Rick Holmes.

You can download a sample Children’s Bulletin by clicking here.

Interested in Serving?

We’re excited to have a large group of volunteers who serve in Children’s Ministries at ECPC!

All adults who serve in our Children’s Ministries are required to:

 • Be members of ECPC

• Complete a Security form

• Submit to a nation-wide background check 

• Be interviewed by our Children’s Ministries’ Director and an Elder