Christian Education

9:45 Sunday School for children and adults

10:40 Children's Music

11:00 Sunday School for children, youth, and adults

Vacation Bible School

Sprouts

Sunday School will be offered for all ages at both 9:45 and 11:00 A.M. beginning September 10, 2006.

9:45 A.M.

3, 4, and 5 year olds are invited to Godly Play, where the children and Storyteller enter into the stories of our faith, share in the wondering, and explore the story through the response of their choice.

Kindergarten-6 th graders are involved in Power Xpress, a curriculum using many different Stations over several weeks to study a Bible passage or story: Cooking, Storytelling, Video, Art, Games, and Science.

Adult Classes: "From Jesus to Constantine";  A look at the first 300 years of Christianity. Adults are invited to watch and discuss a video lecture by Bart D. Ehrman, Ph.D. followed by discussion. This class meets in the lounge. No preparation required.

11:00 A.M.

3, 4, and 5 year olds are involved in a second session of Godly Play, as described above, but with a different story so they may attend both sessions.

Kindergarten-3 rd graders experience the Bible Stories through one of the Stations of Power Xpress.

4 th -6 th graders have a Godly Play session, entering into the story with the Storyteller, wondering, and exploring the meaning of the story for themselves and each other, and then responding through many art options.

Sunday School for youth in grades 7-12 meets upstairs

Adult Class: Topic to be decided.

Godly Play

Godly Play instruction was a blessing to five different churches in the Tanana Valley in September 2006. This training event was organized by our youth ministries coordinator, Clarice Moore.

Music is an important part of all of our faith journeys, and our children have an opportunity each Sunday morning to sing some of their favorites, as well as learn some new ones to share in worship once a month. This happens from 10:40-11:00am each Sunday morning. An additional opportunity this past spring was the children's musical “Oh, Jonah” which was presented in worship on Sunday, May 14 th . Children ages 3-16 participated.

Sprouts is a discipleship group for 4th , 5th , and 6th graders that meets for 8 week sessions several times during the year. This group works on Acts of Devotion, Worship, Kindness, and Justice. Several recurring projects this group has worked on have been interviewing members of our congregation and making banners for their loved ones for All Saints Day, preparing a Living Gift Market for the Heifer Project, and working on kits for UMCOR. Sprouts meets on Wednesdays from 4-5:30pm .