Junior Church/Sunday School etc - what's yours called?

[Smithagain]

A simple question for those who have children that attend a children's group at church.

What's it called?

We have a Junior Church, with about 12 members ranging in age from 2 to 15! They have quite rightly pointed out that most of them are not as "junior" as they were and they'd like a new name. It can't involve the word kids or children because some of them are teenagers - equally some of them are only toddlers so it can't be too grown up.

I need ideas to steal/adapt/work on!

We have pretty traditional CofE names - Scramblers, Climbers, Trekkers, Explorers, Pathfinders, CYFA. We have about 200 children across these groups.

Skyriders

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Sunday School
and Creche in the vestry in the church for the pre-schoolers

The older children/teenagers are young leaders as opposed to members of the Sunday School (if that makes sense?)

We're also just starting a group (which in on alternative Sunday evenings rather than Sunday mornings) for YR9+ people whose name escapes me - the church newsletter says Kiononia - but I'm sure that's been spelled wrong - thing it starts with a Q

koinonia is a churchy word, FAQ - it means communion, fellowship, participation.

yea - that must be it then

My local church calls it 'JYC' and 'YP'

Never uses the full names of junior youth club and young persons

sparks little stars, sparklers (all reception and under)

dynamites - Y1 - 2
kids church - Y3-Y6

adrenaline Y7+ meet weekdays and some help out with younger kids groups

we have lots of children and youth

We have creche (U4s), Sunday School (4-11s) and Bible Class (11+)

Each category is split into different age-groups, obviously.

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Mmm - interesting variety so far!

I think part of our problem is that we have a small group, so there is no potential to have different names for different age groups.

I'd like to come up with something that sounds interesting and dynamic, has some kind of association with youth/growing/nurturing, doesn't sound childish but can be pronounced by a three year old. Which might be rather a tall order!!!!!!

oh I forgot our monthly after school service known as Leapfrog

FROG - standing for Fully Rely on God

Sunday club is the overall name for ours

Sunday school is called Eagles and the one for the older ones is called the Albatrosses (sp?). Mums and toddler group is called the cygnets. You get the drift

mini church is what we call our under 7's
kids church for our over 7's

We have Junior Church for up to age 12

Our Youth are called "Focus" for ages 12-19

We also have a monthly social called Zone 4:12 (Tim 4:12) for all young people.

can i jsut hijack and ask, do children have to be accpomapnied? dd has jsut started girls brigade and they do parade once a month, with sunday school afterwards. Do I need to be there with her?
I used ot go as a child and my parents simply dropped/picked me, but I wonder if it is the done thing nowadays!

Oh I LIKE Zone 4:12 - that's a great verse for children's work. (Am really trying to get away from anything that implies the grown ups have got it all sussed and the youngester are there to learn.)

Chops - it would be worth checking with the Girls Brigade unit, because things do vary. Children are not accompanied in our children's groups, but in practice they are all from church-going families, so their parents are still in the building. But we would cater for unaccompanied children if there was a demand. I know that our neighbouring church has several children whose parents drop them off and collect at the end. I would think that a church with regular GB parades would be geared up to supervised unaccompanied children, but do check. Maybe stay for the first service and see how it goes?

We have "The Mix" with various mix names for the different age groups ( mini, midi, maxi, Re:mix) , and megamix for when we are all together. Creche are babymix

The kids chose Zone 4;12 themselves - we did a "best entry wins some haribo" thing and they all contributed.

Some ideas were a bit peculiar though "Jesus Freaks" and the "God Geeks" - we have a very interesting mixed bag in our youth...

Sunday School = Lighthouse

the groups are:
creche - Twinkles
preschool - Fireflies
R-Yr2 - Sparklers
Yrs 3-6 - Spotlight