​Children are a vital part of our Church family. At St Paul’s we especially want to partner with parents, that our families would be spiritually healthy, relationally connected, and confidently transforming our communities with the good news about Jesus.

​Bringing up children to be lifelong followers of Jesus happens day by day, in the normal routines of life at home. But Sundays play a massive part too - and remember, you're not alone as parents. As church family together, we are tasked to tell the next generation of the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord.

​Each Sunday, we spend the majority of the service time together. We believe that this helps our children to be spiritually healthy, for a few different reasons:

We want our children to grow up believing that they are part of church. They are church. It's not just an activity they're dragged to by their parents. We assume them to be "insiders," not "outsiders."

• Children are able to worship God. Jesus loves children. He says that a "child-like faith" is to be admired and praised so we want to be parents who bring up their children in the faith. We don't wait until a child is 5... or 11... or 18... We want them to participate in worship in the service (appropriate to their age) as soon as they can, whether it be singing/dancing along to the songs, praying the prayers/creeds, listening to the talk, chatting in the discussion bits...​

• Children learn so much by observing and experiencing. To see their mum or dad (and the rest of the church family) singing their heart out in worship, listening deeply to the Bible and sermon, confessing their sin earnestly, praying intently, caring for each other... As they look around, they will see that Jesus and his family are important to their parents and others. This is deeply powerful and formative. 

• God can work in tiny hearts. He can do more than we could ever imagine. Week in, week out, God works by his spirit, through his word, to bring people to himself. He works through church!

​When we split into age appropriate groups for the Bible teaching, the adults stay in the main church building and the children go into the church hall. There is also a crèche in the committee room. All the adult leaders are DBS checked, find out more about our Safeguarding Policy here.