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8:45 Service
We are using Cokesbury's Rock Solid curriculum. Classes are available for:
Preschool and Kindergarten
1st Grade
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th/5th Grade
10:00 Service
We are using Cokesbury's One Room Sunday School. Classes are available for:
Preschool and Kindergarten
1st-5th Grade
Music and Missions For Kids (M&M For Kids) meets each Sunday evening from 5:30-7:00 to rehearse our elementary age choirs, eat dinner together, and help kids learn about and do different mission projects. The schedule is as follows:
We hope that your elementary age children can join us!5:30-6:00 Late Elementary Choir rehearsal for 3rd-5th Graders; K-2nd Graders are in Mission
6:00-6:30 Dinner for M&M Kids
6:30-7:00 Early Elementary Choir rehearsal for K-2nd Graders; 3rd-5th Graders are in Mission
The Nurseryis staffed by Susan Giokas from 8:30 am - 12:30 pm, by Adrienne Webber from 8:30 am until 10 am and by Christine Cushley from 9:45 am until 12:30 pm.
What would it look like if Calvary families participated in worship services together and also went to their own Bible Studies every Sunday morning? I think it would look wonderful! Imagine the sanctuary filled with children, youth and adults for the entire 55 minutes of worship. It would be energizing, rejuvenating, invigorating (ok, and sometimes frustrating to the parents, but look at the Children in Worship article). Then imagine taking your children or youth to an hour-long Sunday School class where their teachers can really get into the Bible stories with them and not just read the story once and make a craft. And you can spend the hour with other adults in a class, or choose to teach a class to children or youth! It may double the amount of time you and your family get to spend with God on Sunday mornings! And spending more time with God is always a good thing.
This program year, all Sunday School classes will begin at the same times as the first two worship services so that this dream can become a reality. In other words, there will not be a dismissal time for Sunday School children or youth during the services. The schedule will be as follows:
8:45
- Traditional Worship
- Nursery Care
- Children's Sunday School for Age 2, Age 3, Age 4, K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th/5th
- Youth Sunday School for Middle School and High School
- Living as United Methodist Christians adult Sunday School class (we are hoping to add at least one more adult class at this time)
10:0011:15
- Contemporary Worship
- Nursery Care
- Children's Sunday School for Preschool & Kindergarten and for 1st-5th
- Youth Sunday School for Middle School and High School
- Discovering the Bible adult Sunday School class
- Wests' adult Sunday School class
The division of ages for each of the children's and youth classes may need to be adjusted as families decide which sessions of Sunday School their children and youth will attend.
- Traditional Worship
- Nursery Care
Children in Worship
This fall we are doing more to encourage children to worship with their families. It is important for children to experience weekly worship, and to learn how to worship God at an early age. If they don't experience it when they are young, then they are less likely to want to or know how to worship as they reach their teenage and adult years.
"But my child will not sit still in worship!" Ah, but they can be trained. Will it always be a wonderful, quiet experience for you? No. But watching them mature in their faith during worship is amazing. My daughters have been in worship a lot in their 6 and 8 years, and I have many ideas to share with you, but here are a few:I will continue to put tidbits into the Chronicle in future months, but this should get you off to a good start in parenting in the pews!
- - Sit in the Sanctuary, not in the Chapel. The Chapel does allow the littlest ones to roam a little bit, but then trying to get them to actually sit in the sanctuary and sit with their parent becomes a more difficult transition. Besides, the sanctuary is where all the action is, and the closer you sit to the front, the better they can see what is going on! By the way, the Childs' Chapel is not a Children's Chapel, it was donated by the Childs family, and it is NOT a sound proof room.
- - Let your child know what is going to happen next. For instance, at the end of a hymn you might whisper to him that next someone is going to read from the Bible, then there is going to be another song, then Pastor Chip is going to talk about God.
- - Model the behavior you want them to do. Bow your head, fold your hands and close your eyes when it's time to pray. They are watching you and learning from you. For the first few years I had to talk to my girls each time a prayer was to begin and tell them what was expected of them quiet, closed eyes, folded hands, bowed head. Now, I just have to tap them and fold my hands, and they know it's time for a prayer and stop what they are doing to pray.
- - Take something in for them to do. Yes, it is completely appropriate. We have children's bulletins that they can work on, and we will have paper and colored pencils available as well. It's amazing what they hear while they are drawing or working a word puzzle.
Blessings,
Julie
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