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| Children and Youth
Introduction to Children’s Programs |
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Religious Education at Hyde Park Union Church is designed to help children learn about the Christian faith and how it applies to their lives. Children from Pre-K to 6th grade participate in worship each Sunday and are dismissed after the Children's Sermon for religious education that is appropriate to their developmental levels (Godly Play and Gifts, see below). |
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Children and their families attend worship each Sunday at 10 am. On Family Worship Sundays children participate in worship in its entirety. Through activities and stories, children learn about the Bible, about the good news of Jesus Christ, and about how other children and adults near and far live their faith. |
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Sunday Schedule 10:20 am - Religious Education (after the Children's Sermon) |
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Godly Play, a children's worship program led by Georgia Lubben, provides a space for our youngest children to worship (PreK-2nd grade). Together they pray, sing, hear the Word and respond to it, learning all the parts of worship in ways that are natural and compelling to them as children. Dr. Lubben employs a curricular approach that emphasizes creativity through art and Bible storytelling using the best methods of early childhood. |
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GIFTS offers religious education through story, art and service for students from 3rd to 6th grade. Students will learn the Bible from Genesis to Revelation in a three-year cycle in sessions led by pastoral staff and lay volunteers. Leaders will tell Bible stories with a method that is creative, dramatic and interactive. GIFTS will follow Bible Stories for Children, with its artful retellings and elegant illustrations of 63 Bible stories published by Simon & Schuster/MacMillan. Thought questions and discussion will bring students into the life of the text in a way that exposes them to major characters and central biblical themes. Sessions will include worship elements such as prayer and song that reflect themes of the liturgical year. Each session | ||||||||||||||
will deepen faith and understanding through art and service activities related to our work with the Food Pantry, Heifer International, Jackson Park Hospital, and St. Martin de Porres Shelter. GIFTS transmits the values and skills of leadership, worship, mission and service, and hospitality that are hallmarks of mature faith. GIFTS is short for Grace, Inspiration, Faith, Tradition, Service. GIFTS Units: The Creation, Early Family, Exodus, Kingdom to Exile, Jesus (Teaching, Deeds, Disciples), First Christians, Christian Letters & Faith Today Service Projects: Coffee Hour Hospitality, Food Pantry Tour, Pop-up Thanksgiving Cards, Take-Home Cookie-Making and Prayer Books, Clothes Sorting and Layette Assembly Art Projects: Tending an Herb Garden, Creation Pictures, Metallic Leaf Craft, Textile Mache Madonna and Child, Mexican Resurrection Crosses, Medieval Prayer Labyrinth, Gallo Pinto Trivet |
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Children's Choir is open to children in the 3rd-8th grades and rehearses on Sundays at 9 a.m. Directed by Stephen Baker, the Children's Choir is a place to learn traditional and contemporary sacred music. To join this choir come to a rehearsal and speak to the choir director. The Children's Choir sings the introit in worship on most Sundays during the school year, and has six of their own anthem performances. Mr. Baker may be reached at 773.955.9448; s-baker@uchicago.edu. |
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Generations (Youth Group) meets regularly for religious study and discussion, social events, service projects, and group outings. This year, in addition to worship and religious education leadership, the Youth Group will explore, express, and deepen their understanding of their own Christian faith tradition through engagement with various religious communities in the Chicago area. | ||||||||||||||
Christian Education Committee Ray Curry |
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