Name This Class
I need to come up with a name for the older Godly Play class to post on our bulletin board and newsletter articles. I believe the older class needs a different name from the preschool class so the parents and students will know that the kind of work we do in Godly Play with older children is serious play. These elementary students are capable of deeper wondering – and ready to invest more of themselves in the open response time. Also, on some weeks in the older class, I do not plan to use the Godly Play routine. I will not be using “pure” Godly Play. (and my experience is that very few congregations use “pure” Godly Play – for a variety of reasons. More on that in another entry.) We will spend some weeks on outreach projects and perhaps do multi-media work from time to time. So I need to find an enticing name for what we’ll be doing with the elementary age children. My rector recently named the class “Sacred Squares” as a reference to the carpet squares on which the children sit. I may have to add a subtitle to that to emphasize the new direction our class will be taking. Common Threads, So What? ( from GP trainer Kim McPherson: Story, Outreach, Wondering, Art, and Theological Reflection), or Pathways are some ideas. Please let me know what you call your Godly Play classroom for older students.
Kathleen Capcara
in congregational issues
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