Kids Zone has a unique month over October. We begin with a school holiday weekend, where some Locations have an All In service, and some have a holiday style programme.
October 12th is Together! This will be a super fun Sunday when we can do things that we can’t when we meet in smaller Locations. We have a guest speaker and HEAPS of fun planned - with live worship too.
We then begin a series called ‘Timeless: Great Prayers of the Old Testament’. This is the same series as our adult services. Locations will be looking through five Old Testament prayers (David, Hannah, Hezekiah, Habakkuk and Jehoshaphat). These will not be in the same order at every Location, and Kids Zone will line up with the adult service at your Location. A wonderful opportunity to learn together as a family and have a conversation on the way home in the car or around the dinner table.

Kids Zone Junior will join with the rest of Kids Zone for Together. The programme is suitable for a wide range of ages and there will be leaders looking out for our younger children and helping them have a super fun and fruitful time.
On the 19th of Oct we take a look at the Fruit of the Spirit, and finish the month starting a God Loves Me, three week series.

For the first two weeks of April we continue learning the skills we need to study the Bible well. On the 7th Geneva will look at answering the question ‘who are these commands prescriptive for?’ and on the 14th, Mel will help us find the truths revealed in a passage.

Then we take a two week break for the school holidays and kick back off in May with our TOGETHER service at Wellington College.

3 March: This morning in Kids Zone, we are learning the difference between descriptive passages and prescriptive passages as we continue in our series learning important skills to help us read and understand the Bible.

10th March: This week in Kids Zone, we are learning what to do with descriptive passages of the Bible and how not every passage contains a lesson to be learned. We are using this as an opportunity to ask ourselves, “What does this passage reveal about God?”, so we can deepen our understanding and love for Him, and humble ourselves as we read His Word.

17th March: Today at Kids Zone we dive into a two week series on Easter. In this lesson we learn the incredibly special story and celebration of Easter is connected to other stories in the Bible. We take a quick look into some of the time periods of the Old Testament that we learnt about in 2023 and how these are connected with Jesus dying on the cross and being raised to life again.

24th March: In Kids Zone today, we continue to look at Easter. We zoom out a little and look at what prophecies and events are connected to what happened at Easter. We talk about events like Passover and the Last Supper, as well as looking at one of the Psalms Jesus and his disciples would have sung together.

Today we dive into a nine week Bible series where we will be learning skills to help us study and read the Bible. We start with reading verses in context. We will learn that reading only one verse might trip us up and give a different meaning to the verse than God intended. We can combat this by reading the verses before and after to give more context to the verse.

With Waitangi Day this coming week, we are learning about God’s original design for unity, what we are seeing in our context and country now, and our hope for God’s perfect eternity.

Kia ora! Kids Zone is back this week and we are excited as we look forward to everything God has in store for our kids this year. This week we are recapping our Bible series from 2023, recapping some of the main time periods, along with themes, and key events through Bible history. Over term one, we will be digging deeper into our Bibles, and we don't want to leave anyone behind. It will be a fun lesson to kick the year off.