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Children’s Sunday School is held each Sunday during the 8:50am “Celebration” service. Children come with their families to the sanctuary for praise singing and are afterwards dismissed with their teachers. They return to the sanctuary to join their families for the sacrament of Holy Communion. Sunday School will continue to take place in the UMCC preschool classrooms until classrooms are available in our new church building.
SLOUMC’S Youth Ministries seeks to provide spiritual nourishment and opportunities for service for Middle Schoolers and High Schoolers. Middlers meet with a youth leader during the Sunday School hour. High Schoolers are encouraged to worship with the congregation. Sierra Service Project and Habitat for Humanity are some of the planned work events.
Beginning this summer, “Family Worship” where all ages together explore God’s word, will take place at the 8:50am “Celebration” service on the fourth Sunday of each month. Infants, toddlers and preschoolers may go to the nursery while school-aged children and youth remain in the sanctuary to worship with their families.
Vacation Bible School is planned for August 11-14 for children ages 3-9. It will be an extraordinary adventure, filled with fun and creative Bible-based activities. Summer Camp for elementary-aged children at Camp Arroyo Grande is scheduled for July 20 - 22.
If you have questions or wish to assist with Sunday School, please contact Melanie Statom: melstatom@yahoo.com
or 805-471-8171
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" If we want to help the child draw near to God, we should with patience and courage... seek to go always to the vital nucleus of things. This requires study and prayer; the child himself will be our teacher if we know how to observe him."
-Sophia Cavaletti
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SUNDAY SCHOOL PHILOSOPHIES
An interpersonal relationship is always a mystery, and all the more so when that relationship is between God and the child. We believe that there is
a deep bond between God and the Child which produces in the child the desire to draw near to God. SLOUMC'S Children's Sunday School programming (ages 3-12) incorporates teaching elements from the Methodist Upper Room resource,
The Way of the Child by Wynn McGregor and Sophia Cavelletti's Montessori-based Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. The goals and objectives for Youth Ministry are based upon a program sensitive to the effects of four important aspects of youth environment: youth culture, secular society, family and local faith community. We seek to meet young people in the reality of their
daily lives, showing them the presence of God and the relevance of Christian faith in their societal and cultural challenges. These innovative approaches to children's faith formation serve to help children develop an intimate, personal relationship with God through the use of a prepared environment where the most important realities of the Christian faith are presented.
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