Fall News, 2024

Friday Fun Nights for Highland Children – Toddlers–4th Graders and their families
Sunday, November 22, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Mark you calendar today for the next 4th Friday Family Fun Night at Highland when parents can drop children off and enjoy the evening with Highland friends or running errands. In Highland style we will have tasty food, fun games and activities, surprises around each corner, and friends are always welcome! Contact Heather Ferguson for more information and to get on the 4th Friday Fun Night email list.

Fall Schedule, 2024

God’s Good Neighborhood – Children’s Ministry at Highland 9:30–10:45 a.m.
We are excited about this year’s children’s programs! Children ages 3 through 4th grade are invited to the third floor of the education building for exciting new faith formation experiences called God’s Good Neighborhood.

Elementary aged children are welcomed into God’s Good Neighborhood, also located on the third floor. We are excited about a new form of the workshop rotation model, to which we have added an anchoring element of Godly Play, a Montessori-based storytelling experience. Over a 5-week rotation, children will experience the a biblical story beginning in Godly Play. Each of the following weeks the children will move to a different workshop to experience the same story from a different perspective through things like Art, Drama, Cooking, and even a Cinema. God’s Good Neighborhood is the place where children and leaders grow in faith and understanding of what it means to be the people of God.

At 10:15, teachers will take all of the children to the Worship Center (third floor, White Door) for Children’s Choir. Parents can pickup children there at 10:45 a.m.

God’s Good Neighborhood
Sunday School for Preschoolers and Elementary Children, 9:30–10:15 a.m.
Children’s Choir for Preschoolers and Elementary Children, 10:15–10:45 a.m.

Children Learning to Worship
It’s been said that one learns to play the flute by playing the flute. The same is true for learning to worship. As a way of learning to worship, Highland’s kindergarteners and first graders are invited to join in the Children and Worship program each Sunday morning following the Time for Young Disciples. This new program is located on the third floor in room 307 (across the hall from the Godly Play room). During our time together we follow the order of worship in four movements: Gathering in God’s Name, Hearing & Seeing God’s Word, Responding to God with Thanks, and Going Out into God’s World. By incorporating a Montessori style of learning, our children are learning the ways in which we spend sacred time together taking to God, listening to God and growing together in love and faith.

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