Children's Ministries are focused to provide children with foundations for spiritual growth through education, service-oriented programs, camps, scouting, music and special events. These events can be accessed as follows:

Sunday Worship, Education and Activities

Weekday Worship, Education and Activities

Annual Worship, Education and Activities

Sunday School classes are offered at 10:00 a.m. for three year olds through youth and adults. OUMC is staffed with loving teachers eager to share God's word. Click here for class descriptions - Class Descriptions. All Classes meet at 10:00 a.m. in the Education wings of the Fellowship Hall. Classrooms are marked by grade or age.

Sunday School Room Assignments

3- year olds       Thomas Coke #204
4- year olds       Ashbury #202
Kindergarten     Jericho #105
1st Grade           Bethany #106
2nd Grade          Nazareth #110
3rd Grade           Bethlehem #114
4th Grade           Capernaum #103
5th Grade           Bethsaida #101

Middle School   Samaria #111
High School       Emmaus #113
Confirmation     Hut

More than 80 children are enrolled in Sunday School classes, which observed promotion Sunday in August. In addition, there are 60 youth and more than 50 adults participating in Sunday morning classes. This year the children's Sunday School classes will have a monthly mission focus. We hope to encourage children to respond to the needs of our community by offering to help other children.

Children's Time is held during the 9:00 and the 11:00 service. Children are dismissed from service after the Children's Message. The lessons include bible study, music, puppets and crafts.

Nursery Care is available during the 10:00 services in the Epworth and Aldersgate rooms for ages: infants-2 year olds.

High School Sunday School Class
As a teenage student, we sometimes feel ready to challenge what we have been taught about God as a child to see if a life of faith is relevant to where we are now. Maybe we don’t remember some of the stories we heard about Jesus or the many other people described in the 66 books that make up the Bible. Maybe what goes on in our groups of friends makes us wonder what we’re “supposed to believe or do/not do”. We know that life is just not always fair. As we try to make sense out of what’s happening around us and to us, our ideas about God and faith in God may need refreshing. The High School Sunday School class makes an attempt to fill a need for values and a faith that are reliable and relevant. Its focus is on life becoming fair. That is F.A.I.R, meaning Faith Applied in Reality. Everyone will be welcomed !

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The Zone is a midweek celebration of Christ for children. Each week at 6:30 p.m., following Wednesday night Family Dinner (5:45 pm), the children gather to participate in children's choir, Christian arts and crafts and rehearsals for church musicals. This time includes preparation for the annual Children's Christmas Pageant. It's a wonderful time for children to be "renewed" in the faith during the midweek.

AfterSchool
AfterSchool is designed to provide a warm and safe environment for children needing after school care until 6:00 pm. Children are picked up at their school by the church bus at 2:45 pm and are delivered to the church.

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Advent Workshop - Sunday, November 21, is a workshop with crafts, activities, and refreshments for all the children and families of Orange United Methodist Church and their friends to prepare their hearts and minds for the season of Advent.

Camp Chestnut Ridge Day Camp is a one-week day camp, in August, for children grades 1 - 5. The camp includes Christian educations, swimming, arts and crafts, canoeing, cookouts and archery.

Chapel Hill Holiday Parade and Party - Saturday, December 4, is a community-wide parade in which Orange Church sponsors a float. Church members are invited to ride on or walk with the float and pass out the story of the candy cane to parade watchers. Children under the age of 7 years need to be accompanied by an adult during the parade. We will carpool to the parade site and back to the church. We join back together at the church after the parade for a luncheon. All participants are asked to bring a beverage and dessert to share for the luncheon. These items can be left in the church kitchen prior to the parade.

Children's Christmas Eve Service is a special event for our children of OUMC and for visitors. It is a shortened worship service full of storytelling, singing and the praising of our Savior, Baby Jesus !

Christmas Pageant - Sunday, Dec. 19, 6:30 p.m.
All information will be distributed as soon as it is available.

Confirmation
Confirmation Class 2004-2005 is a 32 week series of lessons designed for youths who are in 6th grade or above. Youth will be encouraged to take personal responsibility for their faith as they prepare to make firm the vows made at their baptism. Classes will be held in the Youth Suite from 9:30 - 10:30 on Sunday mornings.

Easter Workshop and Egg Hunt is held on the Saturday afternoon before Easter Weekend. Children learn about Easter through an involved and symbolic crafts project. At the end of the day, the children participate in a traditional Easter egg hunt.

Heifer Project is a mission project in which the children collect donations in small plastic "Ark" Banks. The offering is then donated to the Heifer Project which raises money to support the purchase of farm animals for poor villages in third world countries.

Operation Christmas Child (Sunday, Oct. 24) is a 3-week mission which asks children to collect items, in a shoe box, for disadvantaged children. The boxes are sent around the world in time for Christmas Day ! Kickoff is October 24 and collection of these boxes will end Nov. 21 so they can be transported to Charlotte for shipment. Please leave boxes in Fellowship Hall.

Vacation Bible School is always in June, usually the first week after school is out. This is a special week in the life of the church where the children enjoy an intense Biblical learning experience. Bible study, arts and crafts, sports, music, chapel time, puppet shows and drama are all a part of this GREAT week. Click Media Gallery for pictures from VBS 2004 .

North Carolina Conference Camps
OUMC has many camps for our children and youth. For more information, forms, and directions, check out our North Carolina Conference Camps.

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