Kids
& Youth...
Is God Still Speaking in Sunday School?
The children have been busy the last
several months. In Sunday School, the children explore
a story using different media each week for four weeks.
That way, they have the opportunity to play games, do
art projects, watch a video, cook, grow plants (has
anyone seen how tall the wheat grass is?), make flowers
to decorate the tables in Stuart Hall during Easter
Breakfast, and make butterflies out of coffee filters,
food coloring and chenille stems. The children also
have the opportunity to act out the story or hear it
told in the first person from the perspective of a
person imagined to have been there. It’s fun and the
kids are learning the biblical stories in a way that
will stay with them.
Coming soon to Sunday School is a
computer workshop! We have a computer and Sunday School
software that will provide the children with the
opportunity to write their own version of the story, do
puzzles they create, color pictures of the story they
have drawn, use the internet to do research on the topic
of the day, etc....
Sound fun? Not like Sunday School in
your day? Mine either. When I was a kid, Sunday School
meant sitting at a table filling in worksheets or making
things out of paper plates. Now, I did learn that way
-- but, I don’t remember it being fun. I don’t remember
really wanting to go to Sunday School. I went
because I had to.
So, instead of worksheets and paper plate
crafts, the children here at Suquamish Community
Congregational United Church of Christ do drama,
cooking, art, games, and now computer lessons designed
to be fun and educational.
It is my opinion that the purpose of
Sunday School is to teach the children the stories of
our faith tradition so that they have a good foundation
on which to grow their own faith. We tell the stories
of Jesus and his ministry, the stories of creation, the
prophets, the stories of our Christian heritage made new
today with new methods, and from an open and inclusive
perspective.
God is still speaking in Sunday School.
Come check it out!
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