First birthdays are a blast. But there’s much more to celebrate than presents and a smash cake. Parents can mark this milestone by giving their 1-year-old their first Bible. In Little Village, this milestone marks the beginning of classroom curriculum and Bible teaching time.

Children at TVC receive a birthday card in the mail near or around their first birthday congratulating them on this milestone. Parents can bring this card to the First-Time Families desk in Little Village and pick up their free picture Bible.

First birthdays are also a time when parents can partner with their community to host a baby dedication ceremony. Though not explicit in Scripture, dedicating children to the Lord is a helpful milestone both for reminding parents that children are good gifts to be stewarded and encouraging accountability in godly parenting within community.

Children at TVC receive a birthday card in the mail near or around their third birthday congratulating them on this milestone. Parents can bring this card to the First-Time Families desk in Little Village and pick up their free storybook Bible.

Kindergarten Blessing marks the first big ministry transition for children at TVC. After five or six years in Little Village, children are now ready to promote to our Elementary Ministry—Kids Village.

This significant milestone is celebrated every August on the Sunday prior to Promotion Weekend. Little Village marks this important milestone by giving each child their very own ESV Children’s Bible to take with them to Kids Village. Parents of kindergarteners are released early from the main service to join their children in Little Village and speak a word of blessing and encouragement over their child.

Early adolescence is an age of opportunity for parents and curiosity for children—particularly around the topics of identity, gender, and sexuality. Parents can mark and celebrate this milestone at our ID Retreat. Parents and children will spend lots of one-on-one time talking through topics like identity, self, and manhood/womanhood.

The ID Retreat is every October and is open to 5th graders and their parents. Parents will receive promotional and registration info for ID Retreat in early September.

The transition from elementary to middle school is a big one for both kids and parents. During their final Sunday in Kids Village, 5th graders get to hear from their leaders and ministers and enjoy some special snacks. As a KV graduation gift, they each receive a devotional journal to encourage and teach them to read the Bible on their own. During the following weekend, these incoming 6th graders are invited and encouraged to attend their first Middle School Ministry event, Mix56. This overnight event is designed to welcome and introduce them to the Middle School Ministry and its events, staff, and small group leaders.

This transitional milestone is celebrated every August on the Sunday prior to Promotion Weekend. Just like Kindergarten Blessing, parents of 5th graders are released early from the main service to join their children in Kids Village and speak a word of blessing and encouragement over their child.

We believe that there is no finish line when it comes to pursuing purity in relationships with the opposite sex. During the middle school years, students are bombarded with a cultural story that is shaping their viewpoint on relationships, dating, and sex. This is a pivotal period of time in the life of a student where the family and church can come together to share God’s great design for sex and marriage.

This important milestone occurs every other year in February. Parents of middle schoolers will receive detailed information and dates about the series and service.

Transitioning from middle school to high school is a major marker in the life of a student. High school brings a ton of challenges and opportunities that allow the parent and small group leader to partner together for the discipleship of the student.

This milestone retreat provides incoming freshmen the chance to meet and develop relationships with their peers and small groups leader(s) before transitioning to our High School Ministry, Rise. Part of the weekend includes a parent meeting to help equip them to see their student grow to own their faith before graduating high school.

You will receive communication on how to register for Fish Camp and the Parent Meeting starting in June. Registration will be open from late June to early August, with Fish Camp taking place before the first Rise service of the fall.

We believe that God does something profound in the heart of a student when they see how He is moving in places outside of the DFW area. Our hope would be to have every high school student go on an overseas mission trip prior to graduation.

This milestone helps students learn how to share their faith, participate in the mission of God globally, and foster a heart for evangelism in their everyday life. We desire for students to be about taking the gospel from the neighborhood to the nations.

Our High School Ministry will teach on missions in October and will have applications for all of our trips run from late October to early December. Information on how to sign up will be sent via text and through email to parents and students.

Every May, our graduating seniors will get the opportunity to recount all that God has done in their lives through our Senior Family Dinner and Sunday Morning Celebration in the main gathering.

This milestone invites the family to affirm their student through encouragement, the body to pray over the students as they transition to what’s next, and for the student to consider how God would desire to work in and through them as they head to college/work.

Registration for the Senior Family Dinner and Sunday Morning Celebration will open in early April.

Every May, our graduating seniors will get the opportunity to recount all that God has done in their lives through our Senior Family Dinner and Sunday Morning Celebration in the main gathering.

This milestone invites the family to affirm their student through encouragement, the body to pray over the students as they transition to what’s next, and for the student to consider how God would desire to work in and through them as they head to college/work.

Registration for the Senior Family Dinner and Sunday Morning Celebration will open in early April.