{"id":13,"date":"2025-07-29T14:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gracerivercity.church\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:03:02","slug":"children-youth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gracerivercity.church\/index.php\/children-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Children &#038; Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_specialty et_pb_gutters3 et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row et_block_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_single et_pb_column_1_2 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough preset--module--divi-column--73121f80-a3ef-4484-8763-c3f18e3c56d2\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_heading_0 et_pb_heading et_pb_module et_block_module preset--module--divi-heading--ddeb8c09-9078-4424-bc15-2efb6572e28e\"><div class=\"et_pb_heading_container\"><h1 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Empowering the Next Generation of Faith Leaders<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_specialty_column et_pb_column_1_2 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_column_empty et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_section_1 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row preset--module--divi-row--048d8e79-b07f-439b-bd57-f41c14f0a56b\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_2 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_heading_1 et_pb_heading et_pb_module et_block_module preset--module--divi-heading--c33f07d9-41e0-421a-8799-5799df695cce\"><div class=\"et_pb_heading_container\"><h2 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Our Mission and Vision<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module preset--module--divi-text--2c55a9c4-feed-423b-9edb-ae0b5b365cac\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We place great importance on giving our children and youth the best foundation in life for all that lies before them in our modern world. That foundation is a personal and growing faith in Christ and an experience of the reality of His Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We run a regular Sunday School or Children\u2019s Church which takes place on a Sunday morning during the main service as well as other children\u2019s and youth events. We are committed to River City Church being a safe place for the vulnerable including children and young people. Like all churches across our national movement, we are required to adhere to a safeguarding policy which ensures vetting, training and supervision of all our teachers and that structures are in place to report concerns. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can view our safeguarding policy here.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_image_0 et_pb_image et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gracerivercity.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-28-at-19.50.23-1.jpeg\" title=\"WhatsApp Image 2026-02-28 at 19.50.23\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gracerivercity.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-28-at-19.50.23-1.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/gracerivercity.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-28-at-19.50.23-1-480x270.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-2445\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracerivercity.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracerivercity.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracerivercity.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracerivercity.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracerivercity.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracerivercity.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracerivercity.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracerivercity.church\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}