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Lily Berkley, Director


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Youth and Family Ministry:  Full Sunday Kids Program 2nd service

Check-in: 10:45 - 11:00 a.m.

Sign-Out: 12:00 - 12:15 p.m.
Students from birth – Pre-kindergarten should be signed in by a parent or guardian at their classrooms in the Youth & Family Ministry Area on level 1

Students in grades Kindergarten – 6th grade will be signed in in their classrooms on the main floor.

Uniteens (grades 7th -8th) and Y.O.U. (high school grades) students should report directly to their rooms on the lower level of Friendship Hall.

Parents are expected to pick up their children in their classrooms and sign them out immediately after the service is over.

The Sunday Morning Experience for ages 3.5 - 8th grades

Pre-session Activities: 

As your children arrive, they will be greeted by a trained Unity Sunday Spirit teacher.  Within the classroom, a game or activity that fosters cooperation or reflection will be waiting for them.  All pre-session activities are designed to be age-appropriate and easy to join in on.

Sacred Circle Time
During this sharing time, children bring a stone with their name and talent on it to place on the sacred circle (symbolically “bringing themselves to the circle”), introduce themselves, learn the affirmation of the day, review and sign heart agreements, have a snack, sing songs, and listen to the lesson for the day.

The Story
Depending on the curriculum, students are either read a Bible story or a spiritually based contemporary children's story dealing with the lesson of the day.  At times, a physical representation of the topic will be used instead of a story.

Depending on the curriculum, they are either read a Bible story or a spiritually based contemporary children's story dealing with the lesson of the day. 

Personalization and Discussion
This is the time for the students to actively explore the new ideas and to make them their own. During this time, the students are guided to see how these ideas have meaning in their own lives and to practice using them.


Guided Meditation

This is the time when students quiet their minds and are treated to a guided meditation that facilitates a clear connection with Spirit and the answers that dwell within them.

Creative Expression
This is a time to have the students uniquely apply the concepts in a lesson-based art project, game, activity, skit or other type of expression.

Closing