CMSAA's Children and Worship program uses a worship context to help children know the experience of praising God.  Using a sensorimotor style of storytelling as a primary means of encountering God, children can experience God rather than just learn about Him.  The storytelling employs and allows children to interact with wooden materials and figures, art and constructed scenes of Bible stories.  It provides a way for young children to learn to tell the stories of God, to experience the joy of worshiping and praising God and to allow them to dwell in the presence of God in order to learn His love for them.

This approach has been developed based on the work of Dr. Maria Montessori, Dr. Sofia Cavaletti, a leading Hebrew scholar and author, Jerome Berryman, Director of the Saint Francis Center for Godly Play in Houston Texas, and Sonja Stewart, Professor of Christian Education and Director of the Master of Religous Education Program at Western Theological Seminary.

Recommended Reading:  "Young Children and Worship" by Sonja M. Stewart and Jerome W. Berryman

Prayer and Chapel
Daily classroom prayer takes many forms:  individual, group, song, and dance.

Weekly Chapel brings the school together as a community to celebrate the Word through story and song.