The Joy of Troy Children's Ministries department works with the Youth, Sabbath School and Family Life departments, parents and guardians to coordinate activities for the children that will help to nurture them into a loving, serving relationship with Jesus.
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2024-2025 Club Ministries Registration is on August 31 at 2:00 PM
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2024 Vacation Bible Experience Recap
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Prayer Breakfast Recap 9:00 AM - 9:10 AM Arrival of Guests 9:10 AM - 9:15 AM Welcome & Intro by Puppets 9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Breakfast 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM Puppet Play - The What and Why of Prayer 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM The How of Prayer: T.A.C.O.S. Craft 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM Bible Prayer Stories - Live Acting 10:50 AM - 11:00 AM Closing Prayer and Gifts |
We had such a wonderful time at the Children's Prayer Breakfast! We hope that these few photos give you a little understanding of what was experienced. Breakfast was delicious, children prayed for one another and for the older ones. Our puppeteers led the children in an interactive and craft-filled discussion about prayer. It was just fantastic!
Vacation Bible Experience Recap
Sabbath School
9:45 AM ON SATURDAYS
We have five Lower Division Sabbath School Classes:
We use the My Bible First Sabbath School curriculum for Kindergarten, Primary, and Junior classes.
We use Cornerstone Connections for our Teens.
We will use the InVerse Sabbath School Lesson for the Young Adult class.
If you have any questions, please e-mail us at joyoftroysda@gmail.com.
9:45 AM ON SATURDAYS
We have five Lower Division Sabbath School Classes:
- Young Adults (Postsecondary - Age 30)
- Teens (Ages 13-Highschoolers)
- Juniors (Ages 10-13)
- Primary (Ages 7-9)
- Kindergarten/Cradle Roll (Ages 0-6)
We use the My Bible First Sabbath School curriculum for Kindergarten, Primary, and Junior classes.
We use Cornerstone Connections for our Teens.
We will use the InVerse Sabbath School Lesson for the Young Adult class.
If you have any questions, please e-mail us at joyoftroysda@gmail.com.
Children's Church | Every 4th Saturday
Children's Church was started in 2008 as a means of helping children, ages 4 to 11 to have a more meaningful worship experience. It is a 45 minute service that includes songs, prayer and a child-friendly, interactive, craft-filled, Bible message. Children's Church takes place while the sermon is being delivered in the sanctuary.
Children's Church was started in 2008 as a means of helping children, ages 4 to 11 to have a more meaningful worship experience. It is a 45 minute service that includes songs, prayer and a child-friendly, interactive, craft-filled, Bible message. Children's Church takes place while the sermon is being delivered in the sanctuary.
Adventurer Club
All Children Ages 4-9 and their parents are welcome!
Designed to strengthen parent-child relationships.
Weekly activities focused on spiritual, emotional and physical development.
Purpose of the program is to support parents and caregivers in leading and encouraging their children in a growing, joyful love relationship with Jesus Christ.
Click Here to go to our Adventurer Page!
All Children Ages 4-9 and their parents are welcome!
Designed to strengthen parent-child relationships.
Weekly activities focused on spiritual, emotional and physical development.
Purpose of the program is to support parents and caregivers in leading and encouraging their children in a growing, joyful love relationship with Jesus Christ.
Click Here to go to our Adventurer Page!
Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14 (NIV)
Vacation Bible Experience
The Joy of Troy Vacation Bible Experience is a fun, messy, story and craft filled, program for children ages 4-10.
See the Flyers Above! Register Your Children Today!
See the Flyers Above! Register Your Children Today!
Outings & Outreach
Past and Ongoing activities include:
Apple Picking and Dessert Making Social - These outings are applrific! We take about 20 children to pick apples. We then come back to church for lunch. After lunch we all joined in and make all kinds of apple treats! As we wait for the desserts to bake/simmer, we watch a movie. This is usually a long, delicious day and the kids have a blast!
Camp Cherokee - Every year Joy of Troy sponsors children throughout the community to attend summer camp for a week at Camp Cherokee located in Saranac Lake, New York.
Children's Day - On Children's Day, the kids, under adult supervision, are in charge of the worship service. Together with the older youth, they lead out in singing, prayer, the collection of the offering and in delivering an encouraging message from the Bible.
Community Garden - For three years, the children and their families helped to maintain a plot at the local Capital District Community Garden. The produce from the garden was made available to church members and the community every Saturday throughout the Summer.
Apple Picking and Dessert Making Social - These outings are applrific! We take about 20 children to pick apples. We then come back to church for lunch. After lunch we all joined in and make all kinds of apple treats! As we wait for the desserts to bake/simmer, we watch a movie. This is usually a long, delicious day and the kids have a blast!
Camp Cherokee - Every year Joy of Troy sponsors children throughout the community to attend summer camp for a week at Camp Cherokee located in Saranac Lake, New York.
Children's Day - On Children's Day, the kids, under adult supervision, are in charge of the worship service. Together with the older youth, they lead out in singing, prayer, the collection of the offering and in delivering an encouraging message from the Bible.
Community Garden - For three years, the children and their families helped to maintain a plot at the local Capital District Community Garden. The produce from the garden was made available to church members and the community every Saturday throughout the Summer.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
Quotes About Children by Ellen White:
“Too much importance cannot be placed upon the early training of children. The lessons learned, the habits formed, during the years of infancy and childhood, have more to do with the formation of the character and the direction of the life than have all the instruction and training of the after years.”
Ministry of Healing, p. 380.
“It is during the first years of a child's life that his mind is most susceptible to impressions either good or evil. During these years decided progress is made in either a right direction or a wrong one.”
Child Guidance, p. 193.
“Those who love God should feel deeply interested in the children and youth. To them God can reveal His truth and salvation. Jesus calls the little ones that believe on Him, the lambs of His flock. He has a special love for and interest in the children. . . . The most precious offering that the children can give to Jesus, is the freshness of their childhood.”
Reflecting Christ, p. 373.
“How interestedly the Lord Jesus knocks at the door of families where there are little children to be educated and trained! How gently he watches over the mothers' interest, and how sad He feels to see children neglected. . . . In the home characters are formed; human beings are molded and fashioned to be either a blessing or a curse.”
That I My Know Him, p. 39.
“Too much importance cannot be placed upon the early training of children. The lessons learned, the habits formed, during the years of infancy and childhood, have more to do with the formation of the character and the direction of the life than have all the instruction and training of the after years.”
Ministry of Healing, p. 380.
“It is during the first years of a child's life that his mind is most susceptible to impressions either good or evil. During these years decided progress is made in either a right direction or a wrong one.”
Child Guidance, p. 193.
“Those who love God should feel deeply interested in the children and youth. To them God can reveal His truth and salvation. Jesus calls the little ones that believe on Him, the lambs of His flock. He has a special love for and interest in the children. . . . The most precious offering that the children can give to Jesus, is the freshness of their childhood.”
Reflecting Christ, p. 373.
“How interestedly the Lord Jesus knocks at the door of families where there are little children to be educated and trained! How gently he watches over the mothers' interest, and how sad He feels to see children neglected. . . . In the home characters are formed; human beings are molded and fashioned to be either a blessing or a curse.”
That I My Know Him, p. 39.
