Christ Church,
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Sunday School |
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| Children of every age are welcomed to The Learning Circle each Sunday morning during the 9:30 service. We offer a variety of activities for each age level, from infant through twelfth grade. Nursery care is provided for infants through young preschoolers during the 11:15 service. Visitors are always welcome. You are invited to call or email The Rev. Julie Yarborough with questions or for more information. | ||||||
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Workshop Rotation Model |
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The Workshop Rotation Model teaches Bible Stories and other topics in a dynamic and creative format. Children, grouped by age, rotate through different workshops over a five-week period. Each workshop focuses on the same story or theme but employs different activities and media. Workshops include drama, art, cooking, computers, music, games, videos and more. This approach, which is based on Harvard Education Professor Howard Gardner's theories of multiple intelligences, reinforces the message with a fresh experience each week and helps keep children engaged and motivated. (Click here here for a website that describes the concept in more detail.) We encourage parents to read along with their kids and discuss what they are learning each week. By the end of each rotation, we hope that the kids will know the story well enough to tell it themselves! During the 2005 - 2006 year, we explored the theme, "Do the Right Thing." We learned stories from the Bible about people like Joshua, Ruth, David and Peter - people who trusted in God in order to "do the right thing." The first five weeks in the fall we produced a play about Joshua, which was performed in worship on Sunday, October 9 during the 9:30 service. |
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Assemblies |
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During school vacation weeks, we have special assembly sessions for ages four through sixth grade. All the kids are brought together for a special program and activity, often involving a service project of some sort. Examples of assemblies include packing health kits for victims of hurricanes, making Christmas Stockings for children in Newark, or sorting toiletries for Bridges. |
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Computer Classroom |
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seventh and eighth grades |
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Seventh graders meet in the chapel for their Sunday School class each week except the first Sunday of the month when they stay in church for the worship service and communion. This year the seventh graders are using the Seasons of the Spirit curriculum, and they are learning what it means to be a contemporary disciple of Jesus. Eight graders spend the year in confirmation classes with Rev. Chuck Rush. They meet on Sunday afternoons or evenings, and are expected to attend church on Sunday mornings. | ||||||
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high school High School students are invited to attend one of the worship services each Sunday. Once a month, this group meets with John Ross for a presentation and discussion in the conference room during the second service. For more information, contact John Ross (). |
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Christ Church has a well-equipped computer classroom which is
used as one of the "stops" in the Workshop Rotation Model. Children
are able to work their way through some of the excellent multimedia Sunday School
modules that are now being produced.