From 10am-11am each week during the school year, Harvard-Epworth has Christian Education opportunities available for all ages.
Children’s Sunday school meets downstairs for Bible stories, activities, and service projects. In addition, children’s choir is held twice a month. Middle and High school youth meet upstairs in the church office for Sunday school.
Please join us for a fun, safe, and exciting learning environment in which we all can continue to grow in our understanding of who we are as children of God, and work to become a part of God’s vision for the world.
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Your children are invited to join us on the second Sunday of each month where the two Sunday School classes will be combining to experience a Godly Play Session.
Children have an innate sense of the presence of God. The Godly Play approach helps them to explore their faith through story, to gain religious language and to enhance their spiritual experience though wonder and play. Based on Montessori principles and developed using a spiral curriculum, the Godly Play method serves children through early, middle and late childhood and beyond. Come join us!
Here is a little more about the session:
Children have an innate sense of the presence of God. The Godly Play approach helps them to explore their faith through story, to gain religious language and to enhance their spiritual experience though wonder and play. Based on Montessori principles and developed using a spiral curriculum, the Godly Play method serves children through early, middle and late childhood and beyond. Come join us!
Created by Jerome Berryman, an Episcopal Priest, in 1972 and honed through years of interaction with children in diverse settings, the goal of Godly Play is to teach children to use faith language—parables, sacred stories, and liturgical action—to help them become more fully aware of the mystery of God’s presence in their lives.
Godly Play is a way of being in worship:
- Getting Ready: Just as we leave the outside world behind and focus our gaze into the sanctuary, Godly Play invites children to get ready as they cross a threshold and are invited into the worship center.
- Opening: Children are greeted by name and prepare to quietly enter and form a circle around the story teller.
- Hearing the Word of God: The story teller presents the story using a multisensory approach and three-dimensional materials; God’s Word is the central event unfolding.
- Wondering: The story teller engages the children with, “I wonder…” questions.
- Response: Following the story, the children are given time to respond to the message through whatever creative medium they choose, from art materials to one of the stories along the shelves.
- The Feast: At the end of the response time, children gather again in the circle to read Scripture, give thanks in prayer and have a simple feast of crackers and water.