Thank you for your interest in our DC4Kids class. Working in tandem with our adult DivorceCare class, our goal at Gateway is to offer DC4Kids twice a year: once in the Fall usually beginning in early September running through early November, and again in the Spring usually beginning early February running through early May. Gateway's DC4Kids class is for 1st to 6th grade kiddos who are angry, hurt or confuse by divorce or separation in their family. As parents are learning about healing in DivorceCare, kids can learn about their emotions in DC4Kids. Therefore, we do require that a parent be registered and participating in DivorceCare at the same time their kiddo is taking DC4Kids. Arrangements can be made for parents who have taken DivorceCare and are registering for Boundaries, Safe People, Financial Peace, Wounded Heart or Women's Domestic Violence Support. Please email, restore@gatewaychurch with any questions.
DC4Kids offers a safe environment for kiddos with parents who are walking through marital separation or divorce to name their feelings.The class is warm and encouraging. We help the kiddos to recognize how their emotions speak in their hearts and in their bodies. Each week we use videos, music, games, crafts and food to build community with each other. The kiddos learn to support others who are also walking through similar journeys. The most important thing that DC4Kids offers is knowing that God loves all families no matter what and that they are not alone!
Each week, Gateway leaders who have personally walked through divorce in their own families and with their own children help kids better name the painful hurts and emotions that come with separation and divorce. Ultimately, we want to be nurturers who reassure them that despite what it seems divorce is never their fault and that God loves their family.
TOPICS COVERED IN THE CLASS: **for kiddos 1st-6th Grade**
Week 1: What's Happening to My Family?
Week 2: God Loves Children in All Kinds of Families
Week 3: Facing My Anger
Week 4: Journey from Anger to Sadness
Week 5: I Am Not Alone
Week 6: God's Plan for Me
Week 7: Developing New Relationships
Week 8: Developing Money Smarts
Week 9: It's Not My Fault
Week 10: Telling my Parents How I Feel
Week 11: Forgiveness
Week 12: Loving My Parents
Week 13: Moving On: Growing Up & Closer to God
CLASS DURATION: 13 Weeks
CLASS SIZE: 10 Maximum
COST: $20
MATERIALS: DC4Kids video series and workbook
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: https://www.dc4k.org/parentzone
OTHER LOCATIONS: https://www.dc4k.org/findagroup
NEXT CLASS BEGINS: September 2020
