Children’s Ministry

It is a privilege to serve parents and their children at Providence Church. Our Children’s Ministry provides contexts that supplement and support the parents’ Biblical responsibility to raise their children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. We provide nursery and classroom ministry for infants through 6th graders during our Sunday Celebration.

Scripture Memory Program

Our LAMP scripture memory program is based strongly on the SWORD Bible Memory program that was developed at Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, PA. The passages used in LAMP are the same passages used in the SWORD program.

Children as young as age three can begin memorizing the Basic level. As your child gets older, additional verses are added to form a passage. Eventually, when the Advanced level is complete, your child will have memorized a Bible passage 6-9 verses long. The fun part is having your whole family memorizing the same passage together. You may have your preschooler doing one verse, your 3rd grade student doing three, and you and your older children memorizing six to nine verses each month, with the whole family memorizing verses from the same passage!

Children will be given an opportunity to recite scripture verses they have memorized to a Children’s Ministry worker. As each verse is recited, the Children’s Ministry worker will initial that verse in the booklet. When a given level has been completely recited, a Children’s Ministry worker will sign that section of the child’s booklet.

Who it’s for:

If Bible memorization intimidates you, you are not alone. Bible memorization does not need to be difficult. In fact, it can be a lot of fun. Having God’s Word available to share from memory is an invaluable asset when encouraging others. This program is designed to get the whole family involved together, from three year-olds and up, memorizing scriptures that are a part of the same passage. If you keep at it, you and your family will begin to make God’s Word a part of everyday living.

This month’s passage

The passage that our classes are working on for the month of May, 2012 is Exodus 20:10-17.

Exodus 20:10-17

10. but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
15 “You shall not steal.
16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”