Thursday, August 28, 2014

Amazing Lives: Godly Play Fall Schedule

Godly Play is a method we use for our 'Sunday School' at St. Paul's.  Godly Play is rooted in Montessori principles and is focused on helping young people grow in their relationship with God and learn the spiritual practices of the church.  

Our Godly Play class is open to all 3-year-olds through 5th graders.  It meets beginning at 9.15 am on Sundays.

This fall we will be focusing our explorations on some of the amazing lives of the Christian tradition: Biblical figures such as Joseph and Ruth, and historical holy men and women such as Patrick of Ireland and Teresa of Calcutta.  

Godly Play "shows children how to create meaning with wondering questions arising from the Christian language system. The parables are especially useful to stimulate the creative process, but the sacred stories and the liturgical action lessons are also needed to provide a place of safety to explore from and return to. Contemplative silence celebrates the wholeness of the relationship with God, which is more than language can articulate."

Berryman, Jerome W. 

Teaching Godly Play: How to Mentor the Spiritual Development of Children


Sept 7
No Class Yet….Ice Cream Social After the 10.30a Liturgy
14
The Great Family
21
Abraham
28
Sarah
Oct 5
Joseph
12
Jonah
19
No Sunday School due to Convention
26
Patrick
Nov 2
Julian
9
Teresa of Calcutta
16
Apostles
23
(TBA)…Advent Architects after the 10.30a Liturgy
30
Advent
Dec 7
Isaiah
14
Ruth
21
Mary
28
No Sunday School due to Winter Break


Food and Faith 9.15am: Sunday Morning Youth



 The 6-12th grade ‘Sunday School’ group will be 

  • continuing to explore the real questions offered through the re:Form series AND
  • beginning to include the biblical storytelling based Echo: The Story series.    
Re:Form is focused on bigger theological ideas like sin and creation and church, whereas Echo is centered in reflection and creative response to the biblical stories.  

We will revisit questions of last year (cause we have new minds and it is a new day) and keep exploring the fresh stories of Echo.


We would like to offer warm breakfast-y food with our class this year.  
Can you help us fill the formation freezer with heat and eat breakfast casseroles and breakfast bites and pastries???  
Breakfast casseroles should feed about 6 and be labeled with all the ingredients.  

For more information (or recipe links) check in with Jane.