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Last Updated: November 28, 2011
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BLC's Rotation Sunday School is held every Sunday, 10:15- 11:15 during the School year. Please join us!

In the Fall of 2002, the Sunday School team members changed formats to “Rotation Sunday School,” which has been a great success so far. Much thanks goes to Joy Anderson  and Teri Hendrickson (coordinators from 1999-2006) for bringing Rotation Sunday School to BLC. The current coordinators are Dawn Baumann and Carla Leuzinger, with Val Way leading music.

Some of the things BLC people seem to appreciate about Rotation Sunday School include:

  • The kids gain a very thorough understanding of each bible story.
  • It tells the stories in a wide array of mediums to accommodate a wide variety of learning styles.
  • The room leaders only have to commit to a  5 week rotation.
  • The room leaders only have to prepare one lesson.
  • The room leaders  are provided with lots of materials, ideas, and instructions with which to work.
  • We have had husband/wife teaching teams and mother/daughter teaching teams that have really enjoyed a new way of working together.
  • The kids have made creative art projects which have beautified the church building rather than piling up on your kitchen counters.
  • Even the adults involved learn something new in every story.
  • It's fun! The kids are excited and bringing their friends, and always can't wait to find out which room they will be in this Sunday.

The Rotation Rooms we have held have included some combination of five of the following: Cinema, Computer Lab, Story Tent, Art, Drama, Kitchen, Game Room, Music, and Science.



The Rotation Sunday School website has this to say about it:

For the past seven years, a growing number of churches across our denomination have been experimenting with a new way of doing Sunday School called The Workshop Rotation Model. You haven't heard about it because there isn't any need to sell curriculum for it.

"We weren't trying to invent a new model, we were just trying to solve our problems," said Melissa Hansche, D.C.E. at the Presbyterian Church of Barrington, one of the churches in the Chicago Presbytery where the model got its start.

What problems is she talking about? Bored kids and teachers, declining attendance and Bible literacy, drab classrooms, expensive curriculum, poor teacher preparation, teacher recruitment trouble, (your problem here).

Here's the Workshop Rotation Model in a nutshell: Teach major Bible stories and concepts through kid-friendly multimedia workshops: an Art workshop, Drama, Music, Games, A-V, Puppets, Storytelling, Computers, and any other educational media you can get your hands on. Teach the same Bible story in all of the workshops for four or five weeks rotating the kids to a different workshop each week. And here comes the extremely teacher friendly part: Have the same teacher in each workshop for all five weeks teaching the same lesson week after week to the different classes coming in.