Grounded Roots

Guiding Verse
Colossians 2:77
Let your roots grow down into Jesus, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.

Guiding Vision
To support the development of a dynamic and constantly evolving authentic Christian identity in a child by cultivating and embracing the child's innate spiritual experiences and awareness of the Triune God in the context of a Christian community.

Transformative Narrative
"Each new generation of leaders and parents must find ways to help children discover the transformative relevance of faith stories for contemporary lives. Children come to embody the gospel story through the interplay of these aspects of personal, communal, and religious life" (Yust, 2001)

Faith Community
"In order for young children to taste, touch and smell what it means to be part of a Christian community, we must invite them to participate in congregational worship and outreach. Otherwise, their earliest experience of the faith community are restricted to segregated group care which, however well done, cannot begin to imitate the depth and breadth of the Christian community" (Yust, 2007).

Encounters with God
"Play enables children to live at the edges of their knowing and being so as to discern meaning and purpose in life, and so to encounter the presence of God"
(Berryman, 1991)
"It turns out that children...have an intriguing rich capacity for spirituality, for a kind of religious knowing and being which is neither contingent on their religious knowledge nor moral accountability" (Nye, 2004)

Caring Relationships

• Prayer Partners
• Pew Partners
• Program Leaders

Child Centered Curriculum

• Sunday school curriculum
• Godly Play
• Worship Integration

Home Connection

• Weekly SS Teacher Communication
• Advent and Lent Prep Events
• Parent/Guardian Involvement

Church Connection

• Welcome/Registration
• Fellowship Hall Child Area

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