The Children department is one of the departments in the Kijitonyama Pentecost Church (KLPK). This department deals with giving service to children in the church, at home and at school. This service is provided, to enable children have a good parental care and training on spiritual values. This gives children a sense of character and good conduct in their lives. The purpose of the children’s department is to lead children to the knowledge of salvation by the Lord Jesus.

Children ministry is a very important service in the church. Obviously life begins at childhood and continues to grow physically; similarly, spiritual life begins in childhood. If the baby is well-nursed, well-fed and well-cared for, he/she grows with good health and good conduct. This can be observed in all aspects of his life, namely, the soul and the body. The time we spend teaching children, builds up the image of their future life. The Bible says, “Nurse a child in the good way; he will not leave it even when he is old” (Prov. 22: 6). In other words the thing we teach children, they live in their memory throughout their life; they cannot be forgotten besides rate age. Knowing that we have been called, to serve God and to make all people disciples of Jesus, the church directs his resources and strength into this area which have a very big return for ​​God’s work.

The Lord Jesus gave the children ministry great concern and made it his priority. The Church considers today’s Children are the builder and part of the expansion of the church tomorrow. Therefore the church has a good strategy for managing the children’s department by looking at the needs of the equipment, the kind of training to their teachers and their self-sacrificing. Emphasis is on to develop teachers in order to improve the training or teaching given to the children.

Through this Department the Church receives the following benefits: –

1. The Church enables children to learn God’s knowledge well and understand them from their childhood rather than waiting while they are grown to adulthood.
2. Through teaching to the children the Church is preparing tomorrows servants who will make the church continue doing well in near future.
3. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is based on showing love to people, so it is also important to show children this unconditional love of Jesus at their tender age. Through their services children are taught this great love of Jesus.
4. The Church uses this department to build a foundation for the lives of children who are the church leaders in the future and who will carry the word of Christ for the next generation.
5. Child ministry is a way to reach others, reaching children is easy to reach parents and their neighbors. When a parent observes what is going on inside his child, even if he is far off he can do the follow-up and finally in that way get convicted.

Structure of the Children’s Department in KLPK

Unlike the Youth and Women’s Departments that are located at the Branch, Parish, and Missions levels, the Children’s Department is located at the Branch level. The future view of the Church is to introduce teacher’s organ at Parish and Mission level.

Leadership

The Children’s Department is headed by Sunday school Teachers. However there are branches where the children’s department is under elder who has the responsibility of directing department and coordinating the Sunday school teachers.