Sunday School is a priority for the Children’s Department at Boston Avenue and begins with infants. Age-appropriate materials and methods are used to help even our youngest ones become aware of God’s great love for them and the fundamentals of the Christian faith.
Every Sunday from 9:40 to 10:40 a.m. your child will engage in a variety of activities and all classes are team taught. Preschool classes all meet on the first floor of the Children’s Building.
Elementary children participate in the Rotation method of teaching called Crossroads in rooms focusing on art, cooking, science, video, Bible story and music.
Sign-In and Pick-Up
Each age-level has a sign-in sheet and greeter outside their room. Please make sure your child is signed in. Greeters will send welcome cards, Birthday cards and “we missed you” cards. Please pick up your child promptly. Extended Session is available for children, infants through 2nd Grade, during the 11:00 Worship Service.
In the event of an emergency, please DO NOT attempt to pick up your child. If the area needs to be evacuated, workers and ushers will remove children from the building and take them to the center of the south parking lot. Please pick them up there. In the event of bad weather, children will be taken to the Multi-Purpose Room.
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Crossroads, Boston Avenue’s rotational Sunday School model, is a spiritual journey from past to future for Kindergarten through Fifth Grade. Instead of graded classrooms, "stations" are set up in the Sunday School rooms. Each week the children rotate to a different station where they explore the scriptures in creative ways. Instead of introducing a new scripture each week, children work with the same Bible story for several weeks in a row, allowing the story to be reinforced in their memories.
Crossroads has ten stations, each with leaders who have gifts and interests in that particular area. The stations include a video room, an arts and crafts room, a diner for cooking, BATV for acting out Bible stories, a science room for exploring, a worship room, and a park for large motor activities.
This rotational model was created on the premise that different people learn in different ways. This model has been extremely effective, as evidenced both in the children’s enthusiasm for learning and in their retention of the information learned. And..... it’s fun!
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