Angi`s Blog: Sunday lessons

As you maybe already know am I one of 3 leader of the Suday Lessons in my cumune. I thought I´m going to tell you something about what we`re doing at the Sunday Lessons and what we want to reach with them.
First of all i`m talking about what we want to reach with our work: The Sunday Lessons goal is to convey values for their lives. The background of these values are the christian believe like he`s conveyd by the Bible through the protestant church. We`d like to give them access to the believe to God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. We want to teach the kids that they can tell their thoughts openly and that we take them serious.Also we want the Sunday Lessons not to be dry and without fun, so we sing christian songs with them and tell them storys about Jesus and other persons in the Old and New Testament.
But where do we know which story we could tell?
Thats very simply. There is a booklet for leaders called "Evangelische Kinderkirche, Zeitschrift für Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter im Kindergottesdienst" which appears quarterly.

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At the last page of this booklet there is a table of contents which shows, which story we can tell at which date. This coming sunday f.e. the story of Ruth can be narrated.
But how do we decide which songs we can sing?
At this booklet there are suggestions which songs we could sing, which prays we could pray and suggestions for the story, I mean how we could tell them to the kids. It´s very helpful to us because at many stories it`s hard to find the fitting sons and prays.
But Sunday Lessons are more than just singing and praying. We also want the kids to feel comfortable and want to show them how good it feels like to be in a comunity. So we decorate our Altar with care and settle the chairs circular so that every one can see the other.