Four-to-Five-Year Olds

Ronnie Sweeton and Domnique Duncan are our loving teachers for the 4-to-5-year-old group. This group generally focuses on the basics of Creation Spirituality and the Judeo-Christian Bible stories. At Jubilee! the Vias of Creation Spirituality (Positiva, Negativa, Creativa, and Transformativa) follow the seasons. These kids learn to recognize the changing seasons, to appreciate all of nature, and to recognize the sacred in everything.

They also learn the basic storylines of popular Bible stories. Rather than teaching in a didactic manner, we use crafts and other experiential learning techniques to help the kids think about what the Bible story might say to them. Because the Bible stories are full of emotions (joy, fear, sadness, triumph, anger, peace), kids use these stories to begin exploring their own emotions and emotional responses.

This group is probably most famous for “feeding the hungry.” Each week, they collect their spare change or their dollar bills. They talk briefly about hunger and how much money they have collected. Then, they come upstairs during the opening song to place their money in the altar hunger baskets. They are, by far, the most adorable contributors at the 9:45 Celebration!