Children’s church

Children are an important part of the church family here at Oak Tree and there’s quite a few of us of every age from zero and up.

Sundays…

During our Sunday services, after some time worshiping with the whole church family, our children & young people meet separately for more worship and teaching in a style best suited to their age. Our aim is that the children & young people don’t just learn about God but also experience Him. They are encouraged to discover and develop how God has gifted them and to use these spiritual gifts to help build up the church.

Ice Cream Sundays

Ice Cream Sundays are a monthly fun event when the children & young people are encouraged to bring their friends to church. There are games, prizes and splats!

During the week groups

Acorns is a mid-week small group for children in school years 5,6 & 7. In Acorns, we apply the stuff we know about God and His ways to our everyday lives.

We also eat biscuits.

Shoots is in the early stages of becoming a new small group for children in school years 1,2,3 & 4. We currently meet half-termly for fun events whilst we get to know each other.

We will start to meet weekly soon.

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We firmly believe that Godly role models are invaluable to the spiritual development of young people.

For our girls in high school, Spiritual Sisters is an opportunity to get together with the women of Oak Tree. Half termly events such as a slumber party and ‘cakes & crafts’, allow the girls to get to know each other better and develop informal mentoring relationships.

Similarly, for the lads, Band of Brothers gets young, high school guys meeting twice a term in an informal way with the men of Oak Tree. Past events include a ‘bowling & Nandos’ evening.

As we were planted in 1993, we have recently organically grown some teenagers! Therefore our youth work is in development as we seek to encourage and grow our young people in a way that suits this exciting and challenging stage in their lives.

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Summer

Every year quite a lot of us go to the New Wine Summer Conference with our families. The children’s meetings are brilliant and we always have a great time.

The amazing woman who leads all our children’s work is Lisa! She works full time for the church and also does a lot of work in local schools and runs things for children at our local market in Acton as part of market church. She is married to Steve who is a magician. He often joins in our Sunday activities especially the fun of Ice Cream Sunday.

We often have new people join us and it doesn’t take long to make friends and you will always be welcome!

A word from Lisa…

The children’s work vision – that children of all ages will be a full and active part of the worshipping community, centred in Christ, rooted in the Bible, filled with the Holy Spirit, choosing to obey God’s will in ways appropriate to each individuals age, development and experience.

The children’s work aims:

* That children have fun and fellowship with each other and people of all generations so that they have, and can be, role models of the Christian faith

* That children will know the Big Story of the Bible and the Christian faith and be able to draw from it truths about God that they can apply to their everyday lives

* That children will enjoy spending time in worship and praise of God and, through being filled with the power of the Holy Spirit, they will pray and see answers and minister to others

* That children will encounter Jesus for themselves. That they will grow in their faith and make commitments to follow God and share their faith with others

* That children outside of the church will hear about Christ’s love for them and have opportunities to explore that love further

* To, as much as we are able, meet the emotional, physical, social and spiritual needs of each child.

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You can download our child Protection Policy here.

You can download  our Communion Policy here.