Hope City Kids is a caring community designed just for kids! All kids, birth through fifth grade, experience safe and fun environments where they can grow in relationship with friends, leaders, and God. The Bible is taught in creative and relevant ways so that your child can grasp and understand God’s word. Our desire is to partner with you as parents to be another voice in your child’s life so your child will know, love, and live their life for Jesus Christ.
Questions about Hope City Kids?
Click here to email Family Pastor Jake Vaden.
Crucial Conversations: A Lab for Parents
Starting On
Apr 19, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm
LocationWillamette Christian Church
Scholarship
Available
Parenting in today’s world requires more than awareness. It requires courage, clarity, and the right words.
Join us for a three-week Crucial Conversations Lab designed to equip parents with both practical insight and helpful language to navigate some of the most complex topics facing our kids and teens today.
Each week, we’ll focus on one key area from experts in the field:
- Mental Health
Understand the pressures your child is facing, recognize signs of struggle, and learn how to create safe, supportive conversations about anxiety, depression, identity, and resilience. - Technology & AI
From smartphones and social media to artificial intelligence, technology is shaping how kids think, learn, and relate. Gain perspective on the opportunities and risks, and practice language that fosters wisdom, boundaries, and discernment. - Gender & Sexuality
Engage this sensitive and often confusing topic with both biblical understanding and compassion. We’ll provide a framework for thoughtful conversations that reflect your values while keeping connection with your child at the center.
This lab is about helping you become a calm, confident presence in your child’s life as you lead them to know, love and follow Jesus. Join us as we learn, practice, and grow together.
Dates: April 19, April 26, and May 3
Time: 12:30-2pm
Cost: $30/person (childcare is available; registration required)
Light lunch is provided.
Child Dedications
Date & Time
Apr 26, 2026
Child Dedication is a family and community commitment to raise your child to know and love Jesus for their whole life!
Register to dedicate your child at either our 8:30, 10:00, or 11:30 Sunday service.
If you have questions about having your child dedicated, please email jake.vaden@hopecitypdx.com.
Kids Night Out
Date & Time
May 1, 2026 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Hey Hope City parents!
We’d love to give you a fun, FREE night off, while your kids have a great time with us! Drop off your kiddos (ages 0 through 5th grade) and enjoy an evening to yourselves. Whether that looks like dinner out, a movie, a little shopping, or just some quiet time, the night is yours.
We’ll take care of the rest and make sure your kids have a safe, engaging, and joy-filled evening.
Kids Camp
Starting On
Jun 22, 2026 5:45pm - 8:15pm
LocationGracePointe Church
Kids Camp is a time for kids to have dinner, worship through music, hear a story about Jesus, play games together, make crafts, and have a lot of fun doing it all! We partner together with GracePointe Church and this event is for anyone entering 1st grade-5th grade.
Cost: $15.00 per child
2nd Junior Camp
Date & Time
Aug 16, 2026 to Aug 22, 2026
LocationWi-Ne-Ma Christian Camp
A week long camp on the Oregon Coast at Winema Christian Camp. 4th-5th graders will enjoy a great experience with worship, games, and Bible teaching. The theme is "Live it Out" exploring the love of God so students can understand it in their minds, that understanding would move to accepting God's love in their hearts, and ultimately that the love of God would move to their hands and feet so they can LIVE IT OUT everyday!