Leading worship

Children and youth learn the skills of leading worship from the earliest ages. At children-led worship services, children grow from handing out bulletins with Mom or Dad to ringing the gong and collecting the offering to reading scripture and participating in sermon puppet shows or processional pageants. Throughout the year, the Deacons invite children and youth to join the rota of worship leaders by playing instruments, singing with the choirs, reading scripture, and collecting the offering.  Let a Deacon know if a young CUCCer at your home would like to assist with worship.

Being together

The playground is the gathering place for young children and their parents after worship. This is a time for play and friendships while parents compare notes and make plans.

For youth fifth grade and up, youth group is the place to make friends and tackle larger projects.

Youth Group

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Being the next generation of justice people

Through fourth grade, service projects are led by and done with adults. When we donate our offering, we save it for a long time so we can make a sizable donation. Each of our offering donations this year has been for more than $45. So far in the 2009-2010 school year we have:

• donated our offering to One Great Hour of Sharing
• collected books for Method Child Development Center
• donated 14 Christmas shoe boxes to needy children around the world through Enloe High School
• donated our offering and animal care supplies to the SPCA
• collected books and supplies for children at Interact; we also contributed our offering
• donated our offering to Walk for Hope
• donated our offering to the Crop Walk
• made and donated stepping stones for the small garden
• made Valentines for our friends at Morningside Convalescent Center and for CUCC’s college-age members

Our next project will be planting a small garden at CUCC.

For youth fifth grade through high school, youth group is the place to make friends and tackle larger projects.  Youth choose and run their own service projects with adult support.  

• Joining youth and adults to repair homes with Appalachia Service Project.
• Raising funds to help those with mental illness through the Walk for Hope.
• Preparing and serving meals at the Helen Wright Center for Women.
• Collecting food for Urban Ministries.
• Raising funds to help Yahve-Jire Orphanage in Port-Au-Prince Haiti.