Children's Education

Children's Education

Ages 3 through 5th Grade:
9:30 a.m. through 11 a.m.
Children’s Choir 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM Children’s Choir Room.
Choir Director: Nancy Anderson.

Children perform periodically during church services and children’s programs.

10:15 AM to 11 AM: Class with Laura Powell and Jamie McCornack (and assistants).

11:00 AM - Worship and Wonder (see below)

For those children who do not attend choir: Bible lesson, crafts, activities and snacks.

New Program for 4th & 5th Grade boys!
For the first ten weeks of the Christian Education year, 4th and 5th grade boys are being offered the opportunity to participate in a Boys Advocacy and Mentoring (BAM!) program facilitated by Alan Brandenfels and other adult males from our congregation.

The sessions are one hour long and will start at 11:00 a.m. each Sunday morning. At the end of the ten weeks, the boys will rejoin the peers in the Worship & Wonder Center. All parents of 4th and 5th grade boys will be receiving information about this wonderful opportunity for their sons.

Children Worship & Wonder
11 a.m. through 12:00 p.m.

Children Worship & Wonder curriculum is designed to help children experience worship apart from the congregation so they become able to worship meaningfully with the congregation. The process is designed to quiet and slow down the pace so that children can experience the presence of God with a sense of awe, mystery, imagination and wonder.

The Worship & Wonder teaching process is based on Montessori principles and utilizes the oral tradition of storytelling, using carved wooden figures. In the two Children’s Worship Centers, the children have the opportunity to respond to the story through hands on work with the wooden figures or with creative activities such as painting, drawing, sculpting with play dough, collage making and so forth.

A child who has participated in this curriculum will learn every major story of the Old and New Testaments, including the parables. S/he will learn the meaning and symbolism in the sacraments of communion and baptism. Additionally s/he will learn “how the church tells time” as they experience celebrating the Christian year of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter Pentecost and Ordinary Time. S/he will also learn other elements of Christian worship such as The Lord’s Prayer, The 23rd Psalm, The Doxology, common Responses and hymns.

The rhythm of signing is an important part of the Worship and Wonder Centers. This is because signing communicates meaning, imagination and memory just as words do. It portrays feeling and stirs emotion. The signing also tends to quiet the child and enables s/he to worship with their whole being.

For information about our Worship and Wonder program, please contact Lois Brandenfels at jfbrand@earthlink.net.

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