Overview
Grace Place is Sunday school like you’ve never known it before. Its a weekly event where children from grades one through six learn great Bible truths in a way that will impact their lives forever. Its teaching based on the way kids learn.The basic components that make Grace Place a unique learning experience every week are described in the Overview section. We are constantly updating our pictures in the the Photo Gallery . And you can check out some of our curriculum in the Past Lessons page.
Learning Centers
You won’t find a “third grade classroom” at Grace Place. What you will find are colorful rooms that host a different age group each Sunday with a particular activity. For example, your second grader may be in the Hallelujah Hut (photo on left) one Sunday and at the Animation Station (photo on right) the next. Each learning center emphasizes a specific learning style because God didn’t build kids all the same way. Drama works best with some children, art and music with others, and puzzles or visuals with yet another group.Videos are shown in Animation Station. The seats came from our original church building (1950's) which came from a theatre. Pack Rats Rule!!!
The "Hallelujah Hut" is where the primaries have their story time. The hut is a leftover prop from a children's musical.
GP Labs is a network of 4 computers and a server. Programs are custom designed by our volunteer programmers.
We call our puppet theater "Puppeteria". The puppets were donated from a now defunct ministry and the stage is based on a PVC frame.
Each unit we have one center dedicated to crafts called the "Make & Take Shoppe".
The main point from "The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant" was clearly made in our courtroom complete with judge,
bailiff and recorder.
Teaching for Comprehension
A few years ago Christian educators discovered that most elementary Sunday school students miss about every third lesson. With a different lesson each week that means most students will only learn about two-thirds of the Bible at best!The Grace Place solution: teach the lesson once and repeat it for three weeks. Although it sounds like a recipe for boredom, it is anything but! We look at the same subject from at least three unique angles. Each week the class will either focus on the main story, dig into the verse, or discover truths about the general theme (i.e., forgiveness, God’s power, etc.)
Shepherds and Teachers
While your child will be in a different room each week, he/she will have the same adult to guide them both physically and spiritually. We call them shepherds. Their main task is to build a relationship with their students with a purpose to helping them to put their trust in Jesus and follow Him. (If you have a question about your child in Grace Place, be sure to contact his or her shepherd.)Each learning center has its own teacher who is gifted in the particular activity du jour. We have computer gurus in GP Labs, artsy types in the Make & Take Shoppe, and adults who never grew up in Fun & Games. That may be a bit of an overstatement but you get the picture.
