Joyful Journeys is a Sunday morning program for kindergarten through fifth grade which takes place during the 10:30 service. The "workshop rotation" model is used for this age group.  In a four-week period, the children rotate through four different workshops on the same Bible story. Those workshops might include games, video, drama, cooking, puppetry, computers, music, or arts and crafts. A typical four-week schedule might look like this:

Kindergartners explore the same rotations in a self-contained classroom (Kic Club room).  The children either attend the first part of the worship service with their families, or gather in the Chapel where they are grouped and escorted to their class.  The children see a different teacher each week of the month, but have the same "team" of teachers all year.

There are a number of advantages to the workshop rotation model. There is more active participation in the workshops. When children miss a week of class, they don’t miss the story. They will hear it in each workshop. Hearing the story several times makes it easier to remember. Teachers teach once a month (the same class) which gives more people an opportunity to teach, and no one has to miss worship to teach every Sunday.

The lessons for Joyful Journeys are developed for our congregation based on lectionary texts curriculum.  The teachers and travel guides are volunteers.

Check the boards each week to see where your children begin.