AUBURN — The United Methodist Church of Auburn has announced that Sunday School is slated to kick off on Sunday, Sept. 20. All children ages 3 through high school are invited to participate in the Sunday School program.

This fall’s program will focus on Noah, the great flood and the ark. The Education Committee has planned a Rally Day kick off to Sunday School. Immediately following the first lesson children are invited to stay for food, games and prizes, all connected to the Noah’s Ark theme.

Students in the upper grades will also start this year’s mission project by collecting stuffed animals to fill an ark. All students are asked to bring new or gently used small or medium stuffed animal (no battery operated animals) by Sept. 20 for the ark. The stuffed animals will then be donated to Central Maine Medical Center, where they will be given to children and elderly patients undergoing surgery.

Last year, Caroline Coffin, director of Christian education, introduced a new Sunday School curriculum to the church. The new workshop rotation curriculum, based on multiple intelligences theory, has changed the way parents, teachers and students view Sunday School. In this method, one Bible story or theme is the focus of four weeks. The children rotate to a different workshop every week to discover the story. They experience workshops in art, music, storytelling/drama, cooking, games and Godly play in the course of the four weeks.

To register for the Sunday School programming, to volunteer or for questions, contact Kary Coffin, director of Christian education at the United Methodist Church of Auburn, by e-mail at [email protected] or call the church at 782-3972. 

The United Methodist Church of Auburn has weekly church service at 4 p.m. Saturdays and at 10 a.m. Sundays. The church is located at 439 Park Avenue.