{"id":19,"date":"2007-08-16T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T08:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2013-08-21T18:14:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T08:14:19","slug":"children","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/community\/ministry\/children\/","title":{"rendered":"Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Celebrating the life and energy children bring to our faith community <img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"right\" width=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/BapBanner.jpg\" hspace=\"15\" alt=\"Each child has their name on the tree\" height=\"298\" style=\"width: 274px; height: 298px\" title=\"Each child has their name on the tree\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The kid&#8217;s club operates as an integral part of worship on Sunday mornings, and on other special occasions. As a normal pattern, children engage in all ages worship for the first 20 minutes or so. We celebrate our life together as a community across the generations.<\/p>\n<p>After some focussed time with the children, they continue their worship and learning in space suited to them. The children typically return back to the worship centre and share what they have been learning and doing.<\/p>\n<p>The first Sunday of the month we celebrate communion together. We model our worship on the life of Jesus who welcomed and encouraged children when others wanted to send them away. Children are invited and encouraged to share in communion and remain in worship for the whole service on the first Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More Information<\/strong><br \/>\nFor more news on what is happening in the Kid&#8217;s club, check out the latest news <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/category\/children\/\">here<\/a> or email: <a href=\"mailto:kidsclub@oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\">Kids Club<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating the life and energy children bring to our faith community The kid&#8217;s club operates as an integral part of worship on Sunday mornings, and on other special occasions. As a normal pattern, children engage in all ages worship for the first 20 minutes or so. We celebrate our life together as a community across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/666"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}