Sunday School Classes
Our Sunday school classes meet from 9:45-10:45 a.m. each Sunday during the school year. In the summer, classes for children and youth are suspended. However, adult classes will continue through the summer and will start at 9:00 a.m. The summer schedule for 2010 runs from May 23 through August 22.
Preschool (ages 2-4) - meets in the Nursery Classroom
This year we are 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.
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.
Mid and Senior High School (grades 6-12)
Info coming soon!
Adult Classes
The Present Word
Currently meeting in the Library, 9:40 - 10:40. Contact person: Clarence Johnson
The Present Word seeks to facilitate mastery of Bible content, understanding of the Bible in relation to life experiences and a greater awareness of God's self-disclosure. The study for the Fall quarter focuses on the nature of God as the first person on the Trinity. Its three units look at Old Testament texts from the Exodus narrative and from the poetry of Psalms.
Journey to a Common Good
Begins September 12, 9:40 - 10:40
Bruggemann is a respected author and world renowned theologian. In this book he turns a discerning eye to the most critical yet basic needs of a world adapting to a new era, an era defined in large part by America's efforts to rebuild from an age of terror even as it navigates its way through an economic collapse. Yet in spite of these great challenges Brueggemann calls us to journey together to the common good through neighborliness, covenanting and reconstruction.
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters, Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary. He is the world's leading interpreter of the Old Testament.
The Gospel According to Star Wars
Begins August 22, 9:40 - 10:30, Fellowship Hall
Are you a Star Wars fan? Have you watched the movies over and over? Maybe this class is for you! John McDowell, a Barth scholar, explores the many spiritual themes that weave throughout the six films. From the Force to the dark side, the issues discussed in the films have a moral and spiritual complexity. Where is our place in the world and our relationship with others, and to God intended to be?