Our annual ice cream party is another amazing opportunity for families to have fellowship and connect on the front lawn of the kids wing before we head back to school in August.  If you have a child in school, are a student/teacher/administrator/support staff/school resource officer/coach, (or want to celebrate those who are), we'd LOVE to have you join us for this awesome event!  We circle up as a church family and pray specifically for each of those groups listed above.  Then we have the biggest ice cream sundaes & smiles around!  

Save the date: Wednesday, August 13!

Registration coming soon...

Each 5-Sunday-month (as well as on some special holidays) we will have one Sunday designated as Family Worship Sunday!  We invite our 1st-6th grade kiddos to worship with their family in the sanctuary on this day.  We believe one of the best ways to "train them up", is to model this time of worship for our kids.  It is a blessing for our church to get to worship alongside our kids in "big church" as well!  

On these special Sundays, we incorporate kid-friendly things, such as: helping lead worship with our worship team, kids and students sharing announcements & the life passage from the stage, fun clipboards with children's sermon notes and activity sheets that go along with the sermon, and of course, a special snack!  

Our next Family Worship Sunday will be August 31st. More details to come!

Our BIG yellow gumball machine in the Kids Lobby gets a weekly visit from most of our kiddos!  At the end of each year, we take all of the proceeds and choose a mission or ministry to bless.  

Over the last few years, our kiddos have raised around $1,200!  They voted to use that money to bless 3 children in the Springfield area with brand new bicycles, as well as purchase hundreds of items to fill our Operation Christmas Child boxes.  These kids are incredible and have the BIGGEST hearts...what a blessing to us all!

We have recently given our gumball machine a major makeover!  Now, instead of gumballs, our kiddos can use their quarters to collect a variety of SquishLand critters, patterned bouncy balls, and some awesome River Bluff Kids capsules filled with specialty prizes (including Andy's gift cards)!

During our MidWeek sessions, we have something for everyone on Wednesday nights, including groups for kiddos in Kindergarten-6th grade, and childcare for our infant-Pre-K kiddos.  In our spring semester, we learned about Heroes of the Bible!

Our next MidWeek session is September 17-November 12.  We hope your family will join us!

This one isn't just for the kids!!  OCC has held a special place in River Bluff's heart for many years.  We have a "Christmas in June" drive, when we collect "WOW items".  We collect all other items (as well as monetary donations) throughout the Fall MidWeek semester, in order to gather everything we need for our big churchwide packing party we do each year!

This year's event was amazing!  Our church family generously donated items to fill 286 Christmas boxes for kids around the world!  We are already thinking through and planning ways to make collection and packing in 2025 even smoother!  

Please plan to join us on November 19 for our 2025 OCC Packing Party!

In early December we look forward to having a BLAST with our 4 yr olds-6th graders at our MidWeek Christmas Party!  Kids wear jammies while we play Christmas-themed games, make Christmas crafts, have special treats & activities such as a Christmas-themed sing-along.  It's a ton of fun!  Stay tuned for details on our 2025 party!

Tons of families came out in January for a night of FUN and FELLOWSHIP at Springfield Skateland...and it was AWESOME!  We are thankful for this churchwide event, and opportunity for our church family to connect.