Hello Chapel Hill Families!
Celebrate Wonder is a Sunday school curriculum that engages children’s natural sense of curiosity to help them understand God’s love. It creates a safe environment for kids to ask big questions — helping them explore the Bible in ways that feed their imagination and encourages creativity. Through carefully-selected Bible stories, songs, videos, and hands-on activities, Celebrate Wonder gives children the tools to explore their faith while incorporating it into their daily lives.
Thank you to the 45 families that signed up for our September Sunday School Kits. Kits are ready to be picked up in the church office during office hours Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm.
If you didn’t get signed up, but would like to participate, I have attached digital copies of the material for you to print at home. I do have a couple of extra kits if you would be interested in the printed materials with the Family Activity Book.
This month, our Faith Word is “Creativity”.
All the Bible stories will align with the Faith Word each month. Here is the Faith Word Poster for the month of September:
Our Memory Verse Poster for September:
This month we will be exploring Genesis and learning about our creative God. Beauty is everywhere in God’s creation. Beauty is in the people we meet. It is in the world we see and the sounds we hear. As a family, look for and explore God’s beauty in all of its forms. I will be collecting pictures of God’s beauty for our September Wonder Wall collage, If you have a chance to snap a picture of something beautiful God created, send it my way so I can include it! aroth@chapelhillwichita.org
The creative Creation story continues. The swarming of the living things is a description of how all creatures inhabit the earth. God divides the animals into three categories—sea animals, sky animals, and land animals. God made a diverse population and demonstrated the importance of all things. God knew that each creature would serve a purpose and be a contributing part of creation. God did not just create one thing; God created many.
God gives a blessing to all living things to reproduce. This is a poetic expression of giving power. It is also important because God sees that all living things are good and God wants to continue creation—bringing forth all of life. There is the continual theme of God calling all of creation good. Diversity of creation is important and good. This is a dynamic of life and blessing. This is the continued creative work of God.
God’s creativity has endless possibilities, and there is so much more to come in the marvelous Creation story. God imagined a diverse world where each and every living thing was important. The Creation story shows the goodness of all things, a creative calling of blessing.
All children can also use their imaginations to create. They do this every day through play. Consider the many ways children imagine; begin to see that their imaginations are signs of God’s creativity working in the world.
Imagination is an important part of creativity. What kind of world do you imagine for your children? How does this align with God’s imagination for the world? This week, watch or read the news. As you do, notice what words are being used. What kinds of things are shown? Then, use your imagination to compare the world God dreams of to the world in our midst. Ask yourself, what can I do to make this dream of a better world come true? Write down one way you can help be an agent of God’s creation.
Attached is the lesson plan for Sunday, September 13th. There are simplified activities that require minimal supplies that you can usually find at home.
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Don’t forget that I am making YouTube videos each week and posting them on our Chapel Hill Kids Facebook Group each Sunday at 8:00AM. These last about 13-16 minutes each with times to pause for activities. I have also attached the template for the “Wonder Cube”. Cut this out and fold together, then use it to ask your kids questions after watching the Sunday school video of the week.
Allison Roth – Director of Children’s Ministries
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