Faith Quest – A Workshop Model for Our Sunday School
The Faith Quest Ministry is responsible for teaching the bible to the children in our parish ages 7 to 13 during the service each Sunday. This ministry is modeled after the Workshop Rotation concept; the goal of which is to teach a series of bible studies over a 6 year time period with a view to imprinting them on the hearts of the children and thereby deepening their relationship with our Lord. Each bible story is taught over 3-5 Sundays. Each Sunday, the kids learn the story through a different type of workshop including: cooking, computers, watching/critiquing movies, drama, art and games.
The operation of this ministry is the responsibility of two teams: the curriculum team, and the staffing team. The curriculum team decides what stories should be taught each year and comes up with the lessons with which to teach those stories, with help from the Workshop Rotation model website. The staffing team is comprised of approximately 11 leaders and shepherds who run each workshop. We also have 5 coordinators who are each assigned to one type of workshop to locate and acquire materials for those lessons. We thank the Lord for all of these wonderful people who are part of the teams who make Faith Quest possible!
The Faith Quest children have also been given the opportunity to participate in liturgical duties on the Sundays that they join us in worship. These duties include greeting, being the crucifer, singing in a family choir, reading the lessons, cantoring, collecting and presenting the offering, bringing forward the bread and wine and communion ushering.
We’ve welcomed a number of new faces into our midst since the beginning of the year and look forward to more children “coming of age” in the near future to join our ranks. It’s so great to have you!
If you’d like to know more about Faith Quest or the workshop rotation model and/or are interested in becoming involved in some way, please visit our link at www.stmarysregina.ca or speak with either of us. We’d love to have you become part of this fabulous ministry.
Rotation Rooms:
- Drama: Kings Theatre, WWJD Radio, G.O.D.TV
- Games: The Oasis, Divine Diversions
- Cooking: Our Daily Bread Bistro
- Computers: Bible Bytes
- Art: Let There Be Art!
- Audio-visual: Pray-Per-View
- Story telling