Godly Play was developed and classroom tested for more than twenty years by priest, author, and teacher Jerome Berryman . In Godly Play, we tell Bible stories 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 of people living within a Christian community. A greeter or door person waits at the door to help each child become ready to enter the room quietly. Each child chooses whether to respond to the story in this manner and then each child chooses whether to respond to the story with art materials or play.
Every child has a personal folder that serves as a spiritual journal.
The most important thing we teach in a worship-education center is how Christian people live and work together in community. Many parents who have children in the Godly Play program find that their children will begin to retell Bible stories-often in the car on the way home from church. We are excited about the beginning of this foundational program for our children at Trinity and will gladly answer any questions and show you a way to continue this education at home.