Lil' Revolutionaries
A movement group for children
The mission of Lil' Revolutionaries is to create a community where children can discover God's love, explore their faith, and practice kindness in their daily lives.
Revolution is a church community that believes in action and makes an intentional effort to practice compassion in the world in a Christ-like way. In this same spirit Lil' Revolutionaries believes it is important for our children to live in love and service. We strive to give our children a foundation of faith that will inspire them to carry out this mission in a world full of brokenness.
For more information or if you have any questions, please contact April Keltner, Minister of Children and Families. Be sure to check out the Lil' Revolutionaries blog as well! If you are interested in groups for youth, please see our information about leap, a revolutionary new movement group for youth. Thanks!
Discovering Gods Love.
Worship
At Revolution it is important for children to participate in the worship service. Every Sunday the service begins with the children in the Children's Corner of the Sanctuary, their own space to participate in the opening of worship. During the special children's song they venture upstairs for an opportunity to learn more about the heritage of our faith. On Communion Sunday (the first Sunday of the month) the children stay downstairs to experience the service and partake in communion with their families. Worship bags are prepared in advance with various activities to help enhance the service.
Music
Each Sunday during our class time, the Infant & Toddler, Preschool, and Elementary classes come together for a special music time. We sing together, pray together and update our Christian Year Calendar. Once a month, Ashley Scheufler, our very own worship singer and music therapist comes up and leads us in singing together. What a great way to discover God's love!.
Exploring our faith.
Infants and Toddlers
The Infant & Toddler class (newborn to 3 years) has childcare for the littlest ones and for the toddlers we focus on a simple theme each month exploring the ideas of going to church, God's love, Jesus growing just like them and different holidays. Centers such as art, dramatic play, and science are set up for the toddlers to faith play with these different themes, as well as Bible stories to enforce the idea.
Preschool
The Preschool class (4 to 5 years) focuses on the timeline of Jesus' life and the Bible stories we all know and love. This class explores these themes through a variety of methods using games, crafts, a story time, and high energy activities to continue to reinforce the lesson and Bible verses for the day. Preschoolers are able to develop their socialization and beginning learning skills.
Elementary
The Elementary class (6 to 9 years) studies Jesus' life in more depth with activities to challenge their developing critical thinking skills. This group participates in crafts, acting out a Bible story, games and other fun activities to help them explore their faith and learn the Bible lessons.
Tweens
New to Revolution, our Tween class (10-12 years) studies issues that are pertinent for tweens as they transition from childhood to youth to adulthood. Cultural issues abound for tweens as well as all of the developmental issues affecting their lives. Some topics this class will cover are living positively in a media driven world, peer pressure, and dealing with anger as well as other spiritual themes.
Practicing Kindness.
Service Projects
From collecting change for Neighbor2Neighbor, our daily homeless ministry, to helping plant trees on Earth day, Lil' Revolutionaries constantly learn about the importance of serving others. The children are also encouraged to participate in Revolution Work Days and in activities with our adopted Burmese refugee families.
Special Events
From parties for our volunteers in the spring to a community-wide Fall Festival in October we have lots of fun special events including educational events for families. Newly started is a Revolution-wide Retreat in the summer with activities for all ages to build community together.