GENERAL INFORMATION Christian Education at Center Church: Our Mission and Vision Our mission is to provide high quality educational opportunities for all ages and across ages, with particular emphasis on Sunday morning offerings, Confirmation, youth ministry and adult education.  With each generation, we are renewed in our commitment to share the Good News of Jesus Christ in our city and region. For 375 years we have wrestled with the best ways to do this. That challenge continues.... Won't you join us? We believe that education ought to be central in the life of our church. It is not just a program we support: it is a central component of our mission as a congregation. We believe that people whose backgrounds and life experiences are very different, who live in different communities and whose lifestyles are not always the same, can live and learn together. Our Christian Education program reflects the congregation's commitment to diversity. We strive for a church in which a majority of our members are actively engaged in our education program, exploring their own spirituality and its relationship to the biblical story and Christian teachings. We rely on our ministers to help us find ways to connect our personal faith to who we are and what we do in our personal and family relationships, as church members, in the workplace, and as participants in the public life in our region. Christian Education Program and Policies Curriculum After careful investigation and reflection, Center Church adopted Seasons of the Spirit as the primary curriculum for preschool through high school. Beginning with its first year of production in 2002-2003, teachers, parents and students have responded well to Seasons of the Spirit. We like its interesting, accessible and theologically rich bible lessons, its adaptability to different styles of learning and teaching, its embrace of diversity through imagery, content and music, and its substantial body of resource material, including "Take Home" pages (which we print in our monthly newsletter). This core curriculum is further supported by a complementary variety of activities and media. Linking Teaching to the Lectionary Seasons of the Spirit is a lectionary-based curriculum - a priority for Center Church in our choice of teaching materials. Center Church uses a lectionary-based curriculum to connect church school lessons to the preaching texts used in community worship. The common lectionary is a broadly shared list of Bible readings designed to guide congregations through key themes and readings in scripture over a three year period.

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