The Workshop Rotation Model teaches Bible Stories and other topics in a dynamic and creative format. Children, grouped by age, rotate through different workshops over a five-week period. Each workshop focuses on the same story or theme but employs different activities and media. Workshops include drama, art, cooking, computers, music, games, videos and more. This approach, which is based on Harvard Education Professor Howard Gardner's theories of multiple intelligences, reinforces the message with a fresh experience each week and helps keep children engaged and motivated. (Click here here for a website that describes the concept in more detail.)

We encourage parents to read along with their kids and discuss what they are learning each week. By the end of each rotation, we hope that the kids will know the story well enough to tell it themselves!

During the 2005 - 2006 year, we will be exploring the theme, "Do the Right Thing." We'll be learning stories from the Bible about people like Joshua, Ruth, David and Peter - people who trusted in God in order to "do the right thing." The first five weeks in the fall we'll be proucing a play about Joshua, which will be performed in worship on Sunday, October 9 during the 9:30 service.

During school vacation weeks, we have special assembly sessions for ages four through sixth grade. All the kids are brought together for a special program and activity, often involving a service project of some sort. Examples of assemblies include packing health kits for victims of hurricanes, making Christmas Stockings for children in Newark, or sorting toiletries for Bridges.

Christ Church has a well-equipped computer classroom which is used as one of the "stops" in the Workshop Rotation Model. Children are able to work their way through some of the excellent multimedia Sunday School modules that are now being produced.

Seventh graders meet in the chapel for their Sunday School class each week except the first Sunday of the month when they stay in church for the worship service and communion.

This year the seventh graders are using the Seasons of the Spirit curriculum, and they are learning what it means to be a contemporary disciple of Jesus.

Eight graders spend the year in confirmation classes with Rev. Chuck Rush. They meet on Sunday afternoons or evenings, and are expected to attend church on Sunday mornings.

For more information about ministry to seventh and eighth graders, please go to our Youth Ministry page.

High School students are invited to attend one of the worship services each Sunday. Once a month, this group meets with Russ Carter for a presentation and discussion in the conference room during the second service. For more information, contact Russ Carter ().