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 behaviors expected of people living within a religious community. The most important thing we teach in a Godly Play classroom is how religious people live and work together in community. Many parents who have children in the Godly Play program find that their children will begin to tell Bible stories - often in the car on the way home from church. Then each child chooses to respond to the story with art materials or play.
Every child has a personal art tablet which serves as a spiritual journal.
The folders stay in the room to hold students' paintings, sketches, poetry, and other expressions, because, often the children will choose to work on a project many weeks before they feel it is finished. At the end of each semester, the children may take their work home. Designed for children ages 3 years through 5th grade, the Children's Choir combines family worship with service to Christ. Children who wish to participate in the Children's Choir come to worship services with their parents just as they always have. Before the Gospel reading, children process down the center aisle to the chapel where they rehearse during the sermon.