| Photo: The Clearing in Autumn by Dave Clark |
Religious Education
| RE Classes
Religious education for our youth is an important value in Midlothian
Friends Meeting. The Quaker testimonies of equality brushes through
our relationships with our children. For example, it is perfectly
normal for a child to call another adult besides their parent by the
adult's first name. In Quakerism's early days in England, it
sometimes fell to the children of meeting to keep a meeting
functional, because their parents were in jail because of religious
persecution. |
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For children of elementary school age or older, religious education
classes are broken down by grade levels, depending on the needs of
meeting and the number of children at each level. * Lower elementary is from grades kindergarten through 2nd or 3rd grade. * Upper elementary is from grades 4 through 5 or 6. * Junior young friends are middle school age * Young friends are high school age These are flexible classifications, and are adjusted each year. A coordinator or pair of coordinators is responsible for each grade level, and works with volunteers within meeting to provide age-specific lessons. RE classes are held every Sunday. At quarter past the hour, the children leave the Meeting for Worship and go to their classrooms for a 45 minute period. In good weather, the children enjoy the outdoor surroundings of our new meetinghouse in the woods, including visits to nearby llamas.
Religious education begins with the smallest child. Midlothian Meeting enjoys its infants and toddlers, and provides a nursery for them during meeting for worship times, and at other times as requested. |
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Adult education at Midlothian Friends Meeting is the responsibility of the Spiritual
Nurture Committee. It is accomplished through Meeting for Nurture,
held every 3rd Sunday of the month from 12:30 - 1:30. |
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| Midlothian Friends Meeting P.O. Box 1003, Midlothian, VA 23113 (804) 598-1676 |