CHILDREN’S CHURCH
We love children and love to minister to them! During our Sunday morning worship service, we have a nursery for infants to age 2 and a toddler nursery for 2-4 yrs olds. Our nursery is staffed with loving adults who teach and engage the children. We also have Children’s Church during our Sunday morning worship service for ages 5 through 11. Children are dismissed to Children’s Church from the sanctuary after our opening worship songs. Your children will be loved and welcomed and we look forward to ministering to them!
OLYMPIANS
Our passion is for children to know Jesus and to know and apply the Bible to their lives. Beginning again October 4th, on the first and third Wednesdays of each month, from 6:30 – 8 PM, we will hold our Word of Life Olympian children’s program that focuses on knowing God, Bible reading and memorization, and service. You can register your child or children here.
Check out Olympians | Word of Life Youth Ministries (wol.org) for more information about the program.
VBS
We provide a VBS program one week each summer for children grades Kindergarten through 6th grade. Our VBS program’s theme for Summer 2024 is The Great Jungle Journey.
Every day, our kids are bombarded with questions: Did God really create everything? Why do bad things happen? Was Noah’s ark real? Why do I need to be saved? Can I trust the Bible? At this VBS, your kids will explore the biblical answers to these questions as they set off on an epic adventure from Genesis to Revelation. Amid sloths, butterflies, river dolphins, and dart frogs, your children will sail along on a fun jungle cruise, stopping at seven ports of call. These ports are the 7 C’s of History: Creation, Corruption, Catastrophe, Confusion, Christ, Cross, and Consummation. Kids will discover how these events shape our world, and they will learn to reconnect the Bible to their everyday life. Prepare to swing into fun as we head out on The Great Jungle Journey!
We can’t wait for next year’s VBS 2024 and the opportunity to again share the Gospel with the children!
LaFayette Alliance Church
6069 US-20
LaFayette, NY 13084
(315) 677-9810
Church@LafayetteAlliance.org
Pastor Rob Gates
Senior Pastor
rfgates@lafayettealliance.org
Rob has served as the Senior Pastor of the LaFayette Alliance Church since 2003. His passion is to help people understand the Bible and to apply it to their daily lives. Rob is convinced that “the ministry of the Word is the main weapon in the spiritual arsenal, the only seed for church planting, the primary tool for church building, and the principal strategy in God’s plan to disciple the nations. No preaching, no church. No proclamation, no church growth. Preaching is the heart, the blood, the whole circulatory system of church life and church growth.” (David Eby)
Prior to coming to LaFayette, Rob served churches in Kansas, Indiana, and New York. Some significant spiritual influences in Rob’s life have been the writings of such men as John MacArthur, John Piper, D.A. Carson, Wayne Grudem, R.C. Sproul, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, as well as such historical writers as the Puritans, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, and too many others to list!
Rob and his wife, Jody, have been married since 1985 and are the parents of four adult children and have seven grandchildren.
Nancy Malara
Church Office Administrator
Nancy is forever a south Jersey girl, living in Central New York for 36 years.
She and her husband, David, have been married since 1985, and they enjoy hiking waterfalls together. Nancy also loves to spend her evenings crocheting.
After teaching math at OCC for more than 17 years, she feels very blessed to work for and serve her church family at LaFayette Alliance.
Nancy has several favorite Bible verses, but one that gives her great peace is Psalm 119:160, "The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever."