Stand Up for Yourself
Stand Up for Your Friends
Stand Up for Your Community
Stand Up for Creation
Stand Up for the World
Stand Up for God
Wednesday February 18, 2009 a group of parents who have children involved in Sunday school at the First Christian Church in Corvallis met together, along with the pastor John Evans, to discuss the church's Sunday school program. At that meeting the parents discussed issues and values that are important to them in the raising of their kids. While the meeting was going on John Evans listened to the comments from the parents and wrote the "Stand Up" phrases that are listed above. The next day I looked at these phrases and decided that I could develop a Sunday school curriculum that joined the organizing structure of the "Stand Up!" phrases with the issues the parents brought to the meeting. I have named this curriculum The Children's Empowerment Workshop.
The Children's Empowerment Workshop will spend a month on each of the Stand Up phrases. We will start with Stand Up for Yourself in March and move onto a new phrase at the beginning of each month. As we discussed at the meeting, I will post lesson plans each month so that you all will know the topics that are being covered each Sunday.
I hope that this blog will be an exciting space for all of the parents and kids in our Sunday school project. This is a space where we can share ideas, stories, and even plan activities. I am hoping that it will strengthen the communication within our community and also offer a way for people outside our community to see what great things are going on at FCC Corvallis's Sunday school. With all of your permission I will also post pictures and videos of what your kids are doing in class so that you all can share in our empowerment workshop.
Love,
Emily
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Thanks for setting this up. I hope I will have an exciting story to share soon. Everyone remember the Ash Wednesday Service!
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ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Emily...this is a great idea!
ReplyDeleteThis may be a little heavy...There is so much sexual abuse that takes place in our society. I hope that we can teach our children that it is okay to tell an adult or an older child to leave them alone if they get into a position where they feel the other's behavior is inappropriate and/or making them uncomfortable. Perhaps this can be discussed in the Stand Up for Yourself segment.
Glory, I think Sunday school is a place where heavy topics like this can be approached as long as the parents are comfortable with us initiating the discussion with their kids. I know there are some good children's books out there on this topic and I will look into it. I think it really could fit in the Stand Up for Yourself part of the curriculum. Thanks for brining the topic up.
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