tenacious
Sundays
Tenacious on Sundays is the children’s programme that we run every Sunday alongside our adult’s services. We have two children’s groups: Mini Kidz (age 1 – Reception), and Big Kidz (Year 1 – Year 6). In each of our programmes we have some free play, praise & worship, a Bible story and craft. For the Big Kidz we also have connect group time within their age groups.
On a Sunday morning we also provide a sensory room for our children with additional needs, which we call “Explorers”. The idea of this room is to give our children in Big Kidz who have additional needs, a separate room to come into where they can explore the Bible stories through sensory play and with a “Velcro Bible” which we have made especially for them. We integrate the “explorers” with the Big Kidz during some of the programme, then the Explorers team take them to the explorers room for part of the programme. We tailor what we do in the explorers room, and how long we spend in there, to the needs of the individual children that attend.
Current events
TENACIOUS KIDZ CAMP IS FROM MONDAY 29TH MAY - FRIDAY 2ND JUNE 2023.
IT IS FOR CHILDREN IN YEAR 3 - YEAR 6 AND IT IS GOING TO BE SUCH A FUN WEEK AWAY TOGETHER! IT IS AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUR CHILD AND THEY WILL NOT WANT TO MISS IT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BOOK IN PLEASE CLICK HERE OR IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE.
On Saturday 24th June 2023,
from 10am – 12pm we have an Explorers Parents Day at
London Riverside Church.
If you have a child/ teenager with additional needs, then we would love you to come and join us on this day. We will be watching the full interview, having a Q&A with a panel of experts who work with children and young people with additional needs, and we will also be helping families to connect together to support each other. If this is something that will benefit you, then please come along with your child/ teenager and join us.
Hostels
Tenacious Kidz and our social action department partner to provide support for the residents in our local hostels. We run a children’s club in one of the hostels bi-weekly during term time, and visit other hostels throughout the year. While we are there we play games, learn a Bible story, have discussion groups, and do craft with the kids. We also speak with the parents that are there to encourage and support them.
NEXT gen
"Next Gen." is our leadership and serving programme for Year 6's. We believe that everyone has a role to play within the kid’s ministry. Next Gen. helps us to start training children in how to serve and lead others.
This programme is designed to empower our Year 6's to serve within Tenacious Kidz, on a Sunday morning, and help to grow their heart for serving others. Some of the roles they will be carrying out are: leading games/ leading praise and worship songs/ helping in connect groups/ operating the PowerPoint. All they need to do to be part of the Next Gen programme is to fill out the form and to buy a t-shirt (which costs £7) which they can wear every time they attend Tenacious on Sundays.
If your child comes to Tenacious on a Sunday morning and would like to be a Next Gen leader, then you will need to fill in a form for them. You can access the form by clicking here.
fUTURE gen
"Future Gen." is our leadership and serving programme for Year 3 - Year 5 children. We believe that everyone has a role to play within the kids ministry. Future Gen. helps us to start training children in how to serve and lead others.
This programme is designed to empower our Year 3-5’s to serve within Tenacious Kidz, on a Sunday morning, and help to grow their heart for serving others. Some of the roles they will be carrying out are: leading games/ leading praise and worship songs/ helping in connect groups/ operating the PowerPoint. All they need to do to be part of the Future Gen programme is to fill out the form and to buy a t-shirt (which costs £7) which they can wear every time they attend Tenacious on Sundays.
If your child would like to be a Future Gen leader, then you will need to fill in a form for them. You can access the form by clicking here.
Resources
Here at Tenacious Kidz, we believe that families can, and should, disciple their children at home. We know that some people feel like they cannot disciple their kids for a whole load of reasons: “not enough resources”, “not enough knowledge”, “not enough creativity”, “not enough time”. Well, we are here to help you to help your kids, and help you to have “enough” in whatever area you do not feel like you have “enough” in. Sadly we cannot give you more time, but we are hoping that when you feel like you have enough of everything else, that you will choose to invest your time in using them.
Little Footprints
Little footprints is our Parent and Toddler group, here at London Riverside Church. All parents/ carers and their toddlers/ babies are welcome.
We currently run sessions on Wednesday, Thursday & Friday mornings (term time only) at London Riverside Church. The session runs from 9:45-11:15am (the waiting room opens at 9:30am). We ask that everyone books in, and bookings are taken on a “first come, first serve” basis. It costs £2 per family per week to attend, you can make an online payment of £2 when you book in for your session.
Please click the link in the calendar that you would like to book in for, and fill out the details as required.
If you would prefer to book in over the phone, then you can contact us here at the Church and we will assist you in this.
If, for any reason, you are unable to make it to a session that you have book in for, then please click “cancel booking” on your confiration email, or phone us to let us know.
There is free parking available.