Sunday Morning 9:00 - 10:00 AM

LIGHThouse Nursery: (Birth to 3 years)

A professionally staffed nursery is available during all morning worship services and other church related activities. 

Room 309 in the Gilbert Building.

LIGHThouse Sunday School: Praise and Play (2 to 3 year olds):

This class exposes children to God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, through music, the Bible and crafts. 

Room 311

Godly Play (Pre-K and Kindergarten)

This Montessori-based approach to children's Christian Formation is child-centered and story based, using beautiful materials and open -ended wondering questions to allow children to place themselves in the various stories of God's people. 

Room 208

LIGHThouse Sunday School (1st through 5th Grade) Workshop Rotation*

This isn't the Sunday School you remember.  It is fast-paced, experiential and media-oriented for our kids today.  Children will rotate through workshops which help them understand God's Word and how it applies to their lives.  Each week, they will experience the Bible Story of the month.  the workshops include: Godly Productions, Seaside Theater, Lighthouse Cafe, Creation Station and Galilee Gigabytes. 

Rooms 203, 204 and 212

Junior Choir: 

Singing, tone chimes, handbells and special performances.  Marsha Wall, Payne Hall

Communion Enrichment/First Communion Classes 

Introduction to receiving Holy Communion for ages 6 and up during the 10:15 worship service. 

Jerome Dick, Room 212

*Workshop Rotation: To implement multidimensional learning in a rotation model in Sunday School classes for grades 1 through 5 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. To encourage the children to experience biblical truths and faith stories so they may know and experience God and come to their own faith.

In the early months of 2009, our Christian Education committee led by researched several Sunday School curriculums to find one that had improved attendance and encouraged growth in Sunday Schools across the nation. The committee discovered the Workshop Rotation model created in the Chicago area by several Presbyterian churches to renew their Sunday Schools with creative and interesting lessons on the Bible. Kids rotate by class into a different workshop each week for a four, five or six week period. They will learn approximately 10-12 Bible stories over the year, deeply exploring the story through art, cooking, theater, games, film and computer. Our workshop teachers  will stay with their particular expertise—cooking, theater, computers, art. They do not rotate with the kids, but instead, teach a lesson several times making adjustments for the age level of the class of students.