Sunday School Classes
Our Sunday school classes meet from 9:45-10:45 a.m. each Sunday during the school year. In the summer, formal classes are suspended.
Preschool (ages 2-4) - meets in the Nursery Classroom
This year we using Seasons of the Spirit Sunday school curriculum. All of the children will be studying the Bible with lessons that are based on the Revised Common Lectionary (scripture passages for Sunday worship). Children learn Bible stories in age-appropriate lessons and engage in special activities to consider what it means to be a Child of God.
Elementary (k-5) - meets in Classroom B
Our Elementary class is also learning about God through the Seasons of the Spirit curriculum. Lessons include multi-media for learning and growing in their faith.
Mid-high (grades 6-8) - meets in Classroom C
High School (grades 9-12) - meets in the Church Library
Our mid-high and high school youth engage Bible study through Seasons of the Spirit also. Reflections on God's Word through the arts, class discussion and its relationship to happenings in our world today will characterize each Sunday's gatherings.
Adult Classes - meet in Classrooms A and Church Library
Our adults enjoy a variety of educational opportunities. Currently, we are offering two Bible study classes.
New Adult Sunday School Class: Pastor Trudy is teaching a new class during Lent and Easter called "Jesus Interprets His Own Cross," based on a video series by Dr. Kenneth Bailey. The course focuses on how Jesus understood and interpreted the cross of his crucifixion, using Scriptural references and lectures by Dr. Bailey, a well-known biblical scholar from the Holy Lands. The class will be held in Classroom A.
The Present Word curriculum provides study and discussion materials for the group who gather in the Library. A team of teachers presents the lesson each week, beginning with a New Testament survey, followed by a study of the Gospel of Luke. A survey of the Old Testament comes next and then on to the prophet Ezekiel, Paul's letter to the Ephesians, the books of Exodus, Deuteronomy, Leviticus and Numbers.
New for Fall: Bridges to Worship
This class is for our children in kindergarten and first grade who will be transitioning from staying in the nursery for most of the service to worshiping with their parent(s) on Sunday mornings. Our goals are to offer these children an opportunity to worship God in their own way, at a level they can understand and to introduce them to the order of worship in the sanctuary and the meaning of each part, so that they grow in their understanding of worship and their praise of God as they get older.
The class will happen on Sunday mornings, beginning in the fall. Look for more information in the next few months about this new venture in faith with our children.