What:
A one-day workshop led by Erika Mittag and Anne Collins to prepare
adults to work with children in First Day School and Yearly Meeting
Children's Programs
When:
Saturday, February 16, 2008, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Where:
Friends Meeting of Austin Meeting House, 3701 East Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, Austin, TX.
See the Austin Quakers Web Site for directions and more.
See the Austin Quakers Web Site for directions and more.
Why:
Because our children need adults who can guide them and teach them about our religious faith and practice
and
Because Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Meeting need adults, male and female, who can effectively spend time with children, teaching and sharing our faith.
and
Because Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Meeting need adults, male and female, who can effectively spend time with children, teaching and sharing our faith.
How:
Contact Anne Collins and Erika Mittag for inquiries or registration.
Topics:
- How to take a group of children and build them into a community that wants to work together
- How to take good quality books, Quaker or otherwise, and create lessons
- Worship with children
- Godly Play, teaching stories from the Bible in a child-accessible way
- Planning for children's sessions at Yearly Meeting or First Day School