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)!

Each 5-Sunday-month 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 March 16th.  More details to come!

Our kids who have completed 3rd-6th grade at the end of the school year are invited to attend SPARK Kids Camp with us!  

2025 SPARK Kids Camp: June 2-5

Cost: $160.00

Registration Deadline: April 27

Registration Packets are now available to pick up at the River Bluff Kids Check-In Desk and must be returned by April 27th. 

This one keeps growing, and has become a "fan favorite" in our children's ministry!  We invite our families to join together for a picnic dinner, fellowship, skits, crafts, large group games, snacks, a Bible teaching, worship...and a TON OF FUN!!  We'd love for your family to join us next Summer for a memorable, and one-of-a-kind VBS experience!  Save the dates: August 3-5, 2025

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!  

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 July" 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!  

On December 4th, we had a BLAST with our 4 yr olds-6th graders at our MidWeek Christmas Party!  Kids wore jammies while we played Christmas-themed games, made a Christmas craft, had special treats & a Christmas-themed sing-along.  It was a ton of fun!