Sunday School is a priority for the Children’s Department at Boston Avenue. Beginning with Infants, age-appropriate materials and methods are used to help even our youngest ones become aware of God’s great love for them and the fundamentals of the Christian faith.
Every Sunday from 9:40 to 10:40 a.m., children engage in a variety of activities and team-taught classes. Preschool classes meet on the first floor of the Children’s Building and Elementary classes meet on the second floor.
Elementary children participate in the rotation method of teaching called Crossroads in rooms focusing on art, cooking, science, video, Bible story, and music.
Sign-In and Pick-Up
Each age-level classroom has a sign-in sheet and greeter outside the doorway. Please make sure your child is signed in. Greeters send welcome cards, Birthday cards, and “we missed you” cards. Please pick up your child promptly. Extended Session is also available for children, Infants through 2nd Graders, during the 11:00 Worship Service.
In the event of an emergency, please DO NOT attempt to pick up your child from inside the building. If the area needs to be evacuated, workers and ushers will remove children from the building and take them to the center of the south parking lot, where they may be picked up. In the event of bad weather, children will be taken to the Multi-Purpose Room.
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Crossroads, Boston Avenue’s rotational Sunday School model, is a spiritual journey from past to future for Kindergarteners through Fifth Graders. Instead of graded classrooms, "stations" are set up in the Sunday School rooms. Each week the children rotate to a different station where they explore the scriptures in creative ways. Instead of introducing a new scripture each week, children work with the same Bible story for several weeks in a row, allowing the story to be reinforced in their memories.
Crossroads has ten stations, each with leaders who have gifts and interests in that particular area. The stations include a theater room, an arts and crafts room, a diner for cooking, BATV for acting out Bible stories, a science room for exploring, a worship room, and a park for large motor activities.
This rotational model was created on the premise that different people learn in different ways. This model has been extremely effective, as evidenced both in the children’s enthusiasm for learning and in their retention of the information learned. And... it’s fun!
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