CHILDREN’S MINISTRIES
Do we offer Sunday school, and how do I sign up?
Here at St. Richard’s, we call it Children’s Christian Formation and is offered on Sunday mornings during the school year.
What’s offered in Children’s Christian Formation?
Nursery: 0-3 1/2 yr olds
7:45am – noon
With two terrific and Safeguarding certified attendants, our Nursery is found down the school hallway, in the same building as the church sanctuary. Please make sure diaper supplies and other items you leave are all marked with your name.
Beginning Level: Age 31/2– 1st Grade
10:15 – 11:05am
Where – Across the hall from the office in the Admin Building (furthest building back on campus).
Parents drop off their children at 10:15am (before the 10:30am service) at the classroom. Teachers will escort children to join their parents in the Nave during announcement time of the service.
This class strives to be an environment where children explore and come to know Jesus, the Good Shepherd, through hand-on work with specialized materials over the three years in this class. We engage in communal prayer, presentations and scripture readings, songs, and discussions. Your child can respond in a variety of ways including art, further individual work with the presentation material, music, and quiet contemplation.
The curriculum includes:
- The Holy Bible and Prayer: the Infancy Narratives, Parable of the Kingdom, Messianic prophecies, with personal expression through art and communal prayer time.
- Eucharist and Baptism; Christ the Good Shepherd
- Geography of Isreal and Jerusalem at the time of Jesus.
- Articles of the Eucharist and Baptism; nomenclature, gestures, words we say.
- Celebration for each liturgical season and feast.
- Practical life: The Montessori-based work that helps them take joy in mastery of certain movements their body can do – dry pouring, wet pouring, and sorting etc.
Upper Level: Grades 2 – 5
9:15 – 10:15am
Where – Across the hall from the office in the Admin Building (furthest building back on campus).
This class is using Spark: Activate Faith Lectionary curriculum that follows the 3 year Revised Common Lectionary reading that are used in our Sunday morning worship. Focusing on these readings helps your child get more our of Sunday worship and helps to build their biblical literacy. Each Spark Lectionary lesson follows a four-part sequence:
- Gather – Begin the day by gathering together and trying a warm-up activity.
- Open the Bible – Open their bible and explore the day’s story
- Activate Faith – Get moving and become engaged in the story they just read by using their leaflets.
- Send – Finish with a closing activity and prayer
Is there anything for children during the service?
Artwork & books – Look for the bookcase and art supplies at the back of the sanctuary. Children are encouraged to help themselves and to return the supplies at the end of the service.
Quiet Room – Adjacent to the sanctuary is a small room with a changing table and chairs, where you can be with your child and still hear the service going on.
