Kids Friendly Churches
Presbyterian and Uniting churches may opt to review their “Kids Friendly-ness” using the Kids Friendly Self-review resource and process. This helps them identify their successes and challenges and set goals towards a best practise children’s ministry. Their expression of the 10 Kids Friendly ideals is assessed by the Kids Friendly Coaches and then they are invited to promote themselves as a Kids Friendly church. This self-review is repeated every three years or when there is a change of leadership. Being Kids Friendly is an ongoing and challenging “practise” to which the following Kids Friendly churches have committed themselves.
Current Kids Friendly churches are listed below. If a church’s Friendly status has expired they are listed as “pending review”:
North Shore (Auckland)
Mairangi Bay Presbyterian
St Aidan’s Northcote
Auckland
Greenlane Presbyterian Church
St Andrew’s Howick
Massey Presbyterian
Kohimarama Presbyterian
Somervell Presbyterian
St Heliers Presbyterian
St Peter’s Ellerslie
Pending review: St Columba Botany; St Andrew’s Otahuhu; St David’s in the Fields Hillsborough
South Auckland
Clevedon Presbyterian
First Church Papakura
St Andrew’s Manurewa
Waiuku Combined Churches
St John’s Papatoetoe
Pending review: Pohutawa Coast; St James Pukekohe
Waikato
Nawton Community Church, Hamilton
St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Matamata
Pending review: St Stephen’s Hamilton; Knox Albert Street Hamilton; Mercury Bay Co-Operating Church Whitianga
Bay Of Plenty
Whakatane Presbyterian
Bethlehem Commmunity Church
Pending review: Rotorua District Presbyterian Church; St Paul’s Katikati
Taranaki
Knox Church Waitara
Manawatu/Wanganui
St Alban’s Palmerston North
Milson Combined Church Palmerston North
Knox Church Feilding
St James’ Presbyterian Church, Whanganui
Pending review: St David’s Palmerston North
Hawkes Bay/Gisborne
St Andrew’s Waipukerau
St John’s Hastings
St Columba Taradale
Wairarapa
St David’s Union, Carterton
Wellington
St John’s in the City
Khandallah Presbyterian
St Margaret’s Silverstream
Island Bay Presbyterian
St Barnabas Plimmerton
Pending review: Wadestown; St Andrew’s on the Terrace
Nelson/Marlborough
Pending review: Tahunanui Presbyterian Nelson; St Andrew’s Blenheim
Christchurch
Hope Community Church
Pending review: St Stephen’s Bryndwr, St Margaret’s Bishopdale
Ashburton
St David’s Union
South Canterbury
St Andrew’s Geraldine
Timaru Presbyterian Parish
St David’s Union Timaru;
Pending review:
Southern Presbytery
Kaikorai Presbyterian, Dunedin
St Mark’s Pinehill, Dunedin
Flagstaff Community Church, Dunedin
Leith Valley, Dunedin
Opoho Presbyterian
Waiareka-Weston, Oamaru
Palmerston Presbyterian Community Church
Wanaka Presbyterian
Lakeside Te Anau
St Andrew’s Invercargill
Lawrence Waitahuna, Clutha
Pending review: Highgate; Mosgiel; Balclutha Presbyterian; Mornington Presbyterian; Calvin Community Church Gore.