Parent's Corner
A Guide to Self-Care for Families Together at Home
Sunday School
The curriculum for our youngest students that teaches biblical stories in an engaging way using simple figures, wooden pieces, and sand, not so the kids can so easily tell you what they learned that day, but so that the stories can get inside them and become a reservoir from which to draw throughout their lives. This curriculum offers a powerful form while maintaining a spirit of openness; plenty of room to explore while also establishing a foundation of who we are. Its philosophy delicately balances form and freedom with the following principles that are to be expressed implicitly to all who come into our Sunday School classrooms:
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We welcome you.
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We value you.
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We love you.
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We respect you.
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We honor you just the way you are.
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You are capable.
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You are our primary concern during this time.
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We trust you to make choices.
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This is a safe place to wonder and find meaning.
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The community is important and will be supported.
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We will set clear limits and expectations.
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This is a place of imagining.
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A different language is spoken here.
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The stories have value.
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We love the stories.
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You can use the stories to make meaning.
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We love God.
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God is present in this place.
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Family Activities
Throughout the year, there are a number of family events. There is also a variety of children's seasonal mission projects such as collecting food items, warm socks and Christmas gifts for Ritter Center families and donations of canned food for the Marin Food Bank during Lent.