Amelia Church of Christ - Christian Church in Amelia, OH near Cincinnati in Clermont County

Starting on Sunday, October 2, we will be moving the starting time for our worship service to 10:30AM. Service will end by Noon.

To accommodate this, we will be bringing our Sunday School program to an end.

As Mike said from the stage on Sunday, these changes are being made in an effort to reach the most people for Jesus, accommodate our growth and fully implement the steps of our vision.

Watch Mike's announcement below.

The numbers in KidZone, our children’s ministry, have exploded over the past year, which is really exciting. Our numbers are nearly double what we had a year ago downstairs, but all of our growth is taking place during our second hour worship time rather than our Sunday School hour. With the increase in numbers, we are having an increasingly difficult time staffing everything necessary to run this ministry effectively. The result is that our volunteers are becoming exhausted. A church is only as good as the quality of its volunteers, and we have the best volunteers around. And we want to keep it that way. Staffing one service as opposed to two sets them up to succeed in a big way.

(KidZone volunteers, don't miss our breakfast meeting @ 9AM, Oct. 2 where we'll explain the new programming more thoroughly. )

We will also be able to increase the quality of our main service even more, both for kids and adults because our focus will no longer be divided between the two hours.

And most importantly, we are a church of small groups. Small Groups have completely revolutionized relationships within our church. People are growing with God and growing with others in ways that we’ve never seen before. This move allows us to put all our resources and energy into growing our small groups – with our adults, our teens AND with our kids.

Starting October 2, we will extend the time of our service from a little over an hour to about an hour and a half. This will allow time for deeper, more complete preaching of the Word.

It will also give our children’s ministry the time they need to fully implement small groups into their worship service. Because we’re not about just playing games and having fun. We’re about teaching kids the Word of God on their level in the most effective way possible. This change will allow us to place our focus on reaching the most kids through the use of small groups during our main time with them.

God’s vision is alive here, we are incredibly excited about the growth that is happening at ACC, and we can’t wait to see what God is going to do next in our church!