Children in Worship teaches trust in a gracious God who is real and accessible in all the mystery of life, both the sad and the joyful; rather than hunger for the nonrenewable magic that comes from the latest movie, toy, or video game.
Children in Worship teaches children to respect the space, materials, and people they work with, learning to enjoy each with care and patience.
Children in Worship teaches the classic rhythm for living modeled in the Bible - the alternation of action and reflection, engagement and prayer.
Children in Worship teaches kindness and mutuality by its ritual character and by how it organizes space, learning materials and the community of children, embodying the biblical ethic of how the people of God are to live together.
Children in Worship’s way of “wondering” and responding to the Bible’s sacred stories is, in fact, a contemporary expression of the ancient spiritual practice of lectio divino.Instead of meditating abstractly on God’s word, the children “meditate” in an artistic and kinesthetic way. Thus, Children in Worship helps children know God - not just know about God or about the Bible.
Children in Worship teaches that everything in God’s creation is charged with the possibility of holiness, including each of us, and that we are in relationship with everything in Creation.
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