{"id":4429,"date":"2018-10-24T01:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T01:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjohnsmiamisburg.org\/wp\/?page_id=4429"},"modified":"2025-05-06T11:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:26:32","slug":"children-youth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stjohnsmiamisburg.org\/wp\/children-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Children &#038; Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. John&#8217;s is blessed with a learning team devoted to teaching children about the love of God, following Jesus, and loving the world God loves.\u00a0 Sunday school for Preschool-6th grade meets every Sunday during the school year from 9-10AM. Fun events and service opportunities are organized regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Our two-year confirmation program includes classes on Sunday mornings with occasional afternoon &#8220;retreats&#8221; to allow for a deeper (and fun) dive into topics of faith.<\/p>\n<p>Children are always welcome in our worship services, but we also have a quiet room and nursery to allow parents to choose what works best for them.\u00a0 On fifth Sundays, children and youth serve as the readers and worship assistants in our service.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout their Christian formation at St. John&#8217;s, children learn the values of justice, peace, love, and respect.\u00a0 Every Sunday our young people close the service with the dismissal that they wrote, <strong>&#8220;Share the love you have with the world.\u00a0 God loves you!&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. John&#8217;s is blessed with a learning team devoted to teaching children about the love of God, following Jesus, and loving the world God loves.\u00a0 Sunday school for Preschool-6th grade meets every Sunday during the school year from 9-10AM. Fun events and service opportunities are organized regularly. Our two-year confirmation program includes classes on Sunday &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stjohnsmiamisburg.org\/wp\/children-youth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Children &#038; Youth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4429","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmiamisburg.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmiamisburg.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmiamisburg.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmiamisburg.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmiamisburg.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmiamisburg.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6555,"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmiamisburg.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4429\/revisions\/6555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohnsmiamisburg.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}