Grace Sunday School
The Sunday School this year will be utilizing the Godly Play curriculum. Earlier this year Grace was given the very generous gift of Godly Play materials from St. Mark's church. We are very excited about now using and sharing these gifts with our children.
Godly Play assumes that children have some experience of the mystery of the presence of God in their lives, but that they lack the language, permission and the understanding to express and enjoy that in our culture. In Godly Play, we enter into parables, silence, sacred stories and sacred liturgy in order to discover God, ourselves, and one another and the world around us.
In Godly Play, we prepare a special environment for children to work with adult guides. Two teachers guide the morning session, making time for the children:
- to enter the space and be greeted
- to get ready for the presentation
- to enter into a presentation based on a parable, sacred story or liturgical action
- to respond to the presentation through shared wondering
- to respond to the presentation (or other significant spiritual issue) with their own work, either with expressive art or with the lesson materials
- to prepare and share a feast
- to say goodbye and leave the space
