Our Children’s Ministry Program is intentional in fulfilling the baptismal vows we make as a congregation for our children.

Join us for Sunday school in God’s Garden. We celebrate our children and understand that children have a variety of talents, interests and abilities. It is my privilege to encourage and lead the children to their own faith. I feel that our mission is to make available creative ways to experience God to all who come to Payson Park Church with a hunger. The Sunday School makes use of the Workshop Rotation Model (WRM); the new and exciting educational approach that promotes the development of multiple intelligence and spiritual gifts and equips the children for ministry. The WRM recognizes that children learn best when all their senses are stimulated and they are busy enjoying their studies and connecting them to real life.

We use the curriculum from Potter’s Workshops. Bible story lessons are repeated and presented in 4-6 week units with children rotating to different workshops each Sunday. Each workshop will involve children in different learning activities, which might include storytelling, drama and puppetry, cooking, arts and crafts, science, videos, and more. We have created rooms that move the hearts and minds by designing “themed” rooms for multiple-intelligence learning.

All workshops give children hands-on participation that enhances their learning potential. Most importantly, a child’s ability to understand and retain the stories of the Bible and their meaning are greatly increased. Why does this rotation model work? We repeat the Biblical Stories over a series of four-six weeks so that the children experience the same story through different modalities over a short period of time. Reminding ourselves of the percentages for retaining information, we can understand how the rotational model helps faith development not only for the children, but also for the adults who work with the children. We retain:

• 10% of what we read
  

• 20% of what we hear
  

• 30% of what we see
  

• 50% of what we see and hear
  

• 70% of what we say
  

• 90% of what we say and do
  

• 100% of what we experience

We are fortunate to be able to use this new model of teaching the Biblical story so that our children, and the adults that work with the children, “say, do, experience.” The lessons become real to them, they own it and it’s there to stay!

Please feel free to email me at any time.