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Sunday School and Christian Education

At St. Paul's Sunday School we welcome each child unconditionally and hope that a feeling of love and belonging will accompany a foundation of Christian Education. Parent participation is a critical ingredient. We appreciate the dedication, creativity, and enthusiasm of the talented parent volunteers in the teaching and support ministry. The volunteer teachers and student assistants are an integral part of our program along with the Episcopal Bible Centered curriculum and enrichment activities and programs. Interested adults are encouraged to team teach and substitutes are available.

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Our 4th & 5th grades and 6th, 7th & 8th grade classes are currently being taught from the Living the Good News curriculum. Living the Good News draws people together to discover and share God's word through learning, liturgy and everyday life. This curriculum follows the three-year cycle of the Sunday scripture readings and invites children and adults to meet Jesus week by week, as they explore the stories proclaimed in the Eucharist.

Godly Play, a method of Christian education and spiritual direction for children, is currently being taught in our pre-k &1st & 2nd grade and 3rd grade classrooms. Developed and classroom tested for more than twenty years, the Goldy Play method is now currently being used in churches of many denominations throughout the US, UK, Australia and Canada.

In Godly Play, Bible stories are told to children to encourage them to enter into the stories and relate them to their personal experience. Godly Play is concerned with the spiritual development of each child as an individual and with modeling the appropriate moral behaviors expected for people living within a Christian community.

Our children also participate in activities to celebrate St. Paul's outreach efforts and important times in the Church year. Our program year kicks off with a "Welcome Back Carnival" and continues with banner making, "burying" and uncovering of the Alleluias to signify the beginning and end of Lent, planting Sunday in the spring, our "Food for Kids" outreach program, among others. The program year ends with a teacher recognition Sunday and ice cream social.