Murray Hills Christian Church

THE WORKSHOP ROTATION MODEL:

Affirms that we are created in God's image.
Children are God's creation. Each child is a unique individual with God-given gifts and intelligences. Parents readily see this as they raise their children and see their unique differences. Children do not all learn the same way. They have different learning styles, gifts, and abilities.
Uses multiple ways of knowing God through workshops.
We recognize that children learn differently. They come to learn about and know God in different ways and through different experiences. In fulfilling its commitment to nurture children, the church needs to provide its children with diverse spiritual experiences that can lead them to a personal relationship with God, and to develop unique spiritual gifts for involvement in a spiritual community. The goals of this approach are faith maturity and the use of the Spirit's gifts in ministry.
Promotes the development of Multiple Intelligences and Spiritual Gifts.
The child and adult as learners not only have multiple intelligences, but as Christians the Spirit has given each of them spiritual gifts. The multiple intelligences and spiritual gifts are God-given means by which we can know God and God's design for our life. As children are taught and learn through their multiple intelligences, God is also developing in them spiritual gifts for faithful ministry in the church and the world.

How it Works

Children rotate to a different workshop each Sunday during a four to six week unit. In each workshop, a unit's concept is related to Biblical stories through activities using one or more of the multiple intelligences listed below. Through small group learning and spiritual journals, children use their interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences for two crucial Christian disciplines: relational skills and personal reflection. These are interwoven throughout all the workshops as children relate to one another and develop their spiritual learning.

The six core workshops the Potter's Workshops use are: Bible Knowledge, Video, Drama/puppetry, Games, Art, and Compurter. (Other workshops used when integration with the unit is suitable are: cooking, geography, science, mission, nature, and media production.)

The Intelligences are: Verbal linguistic, Visual spatial, Body kinesthetic, Logical mathematical, Visual, musical, body kinesthetic, and Logical mathematical, verbal linguistic.