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Children’s Sunday School is held each Sunday during the 8:50am Worship Service. Children come with their families to the sanctuary for praise singing and a special Children's Moment with the pastor and are then dismissed with their teachers to the Sunday School rooms on the lower level of the church building. Children return to the sanctuary to join their families for the sacrament of Holy Communion.

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.

Vacation Bible School, Cokesbury's Shake and Bake is planned for August 15-18 for children ages 3-9. It promises to be an extraordinary adventure, filled with fun and creative Bible-based activities. Please contact the church office for registration details.

Don't miss our Family Ministries kick-off Friday Potluck and contra-dance September 16, 6 -9PM in our church hall.

If you have questions or wish to assist with Sunday School, please contact Melanie Statom: melstatom@yahoo.com
or 805-471-8171

" 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

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.