Welcome to Shine, our brand new K-5 children’s ministry!

Our fall 2011 calendar is available here.

To enroll your child, please visit www.fpco.org/register

If you have questions or would like to volunteer with Shine, please email or call Susie Dunlap at sdunlap@fpco.org or 407.423.3441.

To follow Shine on Facebook, click here.

At First Presbyterian Church we care about the spiritual formation of our children and want each of them to enter into a personal relationship with Christ.

In October 2010, our volunteer-led renovation team set out to learn as much as possible about our congregation’s needs and hopes for our children’s ministry. We conducted focus group sessions, individual interviews, town-hall meetings, and brainstorming sessions, as well as collected data from written surveys and met with staff and parents—all with the goal of determining how best to serve our children.

Thanks to your feedback, we have relocated our K-5 Sunday morning experience to the Clayton Life Center. This move provides dedicated classrooms for our children as well as an exceptional space on the third floor for our children only worship service, ShineTime. The space engages the senses, is educationally effective, and is age appropriate.

We have studied best practices for children’s worship and designed a multi-sensory, high-energy, kid-friendly worship service, and we have reassessed our curriculum and made a selection that is biblically sound. We have evaluated our volunteer needs and created a brand new structure that will be the driving force behind Shine. We have implemented modern communication methods to keep you well informed through email and Facebook.

Finally, we have restructured the Sunday morning schedule for our children:

8:30am or 11:00am ShineTime: a kids-only worship service for children in grades K-5 held in CLC-Rm 305. Select the worship service that works best for your family.

9:45am Shineday School: 30 minutes of Bible teaching and 30 minutes of music instruction in percussion, Orff instruments, and singing.

Shine is designed to excite, engage, and equip our children to become contagious Christians. Don’t miss out on all God has in store for the children at FPCO. Enroll your child today and join us each week. We can’t wait to shine with you!