Sunday School
We at MWPC take the formation of our young disciples to heart. Each classroom and curriculum is designed or chose with intentionality in mind as it relates to learning styles, childhood/youth development, and our theology: Everyone is a Child of God.
Our Early Childhood class is based on Sonja M. Stewart and Jerome Berryman’s book, “Young Children and Worship”. The early childhood classroom is set up to experience God rather than learn about God. Children will gather for a presentation of the Bible story followed by an invitation to respond to receiving God’s word at one of the three stations: Art, Prayer, or Reading.
Kindergarten through 3rd graders are studying Sparkhouse’s “Holy Moly”. During each lesson our children will be invited to Discover, Relate, Connect, and Create. This lesson model allows our children to be able to first Discover the stories of God, then explore how to Relate to that story. Next our children find ways to Connect the stories of God to their own life, and finally they get to Create something that helps ground the story for them.
6th - 12th graders have a hand written curriculum specifically build around their needs and desires. This fall we will be exploring three sections: Community, Child of God, and God’s Grace. We will discover what God says about community, who is in our community, and how God calls us to live into community. We will explore two different faith denominations and how God’s Love embrace all. And finally we will look at God’s Grace: How Grace can be revolutionary for our hearts and mind IF we accept it, how we can show that Grace to others in our Community and every Child of God.
