Godly Play/Sunday School 

Godly Play is the Sunday School program at St. Augustine.  The goal of Godly Play is to teach children the art of using religious language, parables, sacred stories, silence and liturgical action to help them become more fully aware of the mystery of God’s presence in their lives.

Developed by Episcopalian priest, author and teacher, Jerome W. Berryman, Godly Play is designed for children ages 

2 - 12  and has been classroom tested since 1972. Deeply spiritual and highly creative, Godly Play is also used in schools, hospitals, homeless shelters, and retirement centers. Internationally, Godly Play classrooms are found in the United Kingdom, Finland, Germany, Canada, Tanzania, Australia, and in Spanish-speaking countries.

Educational Theory

The use of Montessori’s approach to education has been adapted to Godly Play in order to stimulate children’s active participation in story and to awaken their creativity for the learning of the language, sacred stories, parables, liturgical action and silences of the Christian tradition. This is the most appropriate kind of language to cope with the existential limits to our being and knowing.

The above combination of factors enables children (and adults) to become playfully orthodox. They become rooted in their own tradition and at the same time open to others, to new ideas and the future in creative ways.

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