We "used to have" a webpage out in the main website that collected names of workshops. ALL THOSE NAMES have now been added here in this thread down below --on 'page 2' ...the long massive post

You are invited to KEEP ON POSTING your church's creative name for Rotation Sunday School HERE by replying to this message.

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Thanks Neil for all your great suggestions and for taking the initiative to start this ministry.

Our Sunday School is called "Sonshine Station" and all our workshop rooms are "places" such as

Parable Place (storytelling)
Activity Alley (games and activities)
Divinity Diner (food)
Luke's Lab (science)
Creation Station (art)
Visual Vineyard (video)
Music Mall

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Our Rotation Sunday School is JAM (Jesus And Me) Caravan.

We have an egyptian theme with our classes being called:

Pyramid Art-i-facts (art)
The Oasis (cooking)
Arcade of the Covenant (a temple room for games)
Holywood theater(theater and drama - in the same room)
Tales by the Riverside (Story telling and music and praise).

Our classes are Lizard Chasers (Pre-K thru 1st), Camel Pacers (2nd thru 5th) and Snake Racers (6th and up- right now we have one 10th grader in high school) This Sunday will be our first - So please keep us in your prayers.

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We use the acronym A.R.K.
Awesome
Rotating
Kids

Obviously, we use a Noah's Ark theme and have a logo for all our Sunday School that has Noah's Ark and the caption
"Come Aboard"
Cheryl

Art: Creation Station
Drama: Moved by the Spirit
Stories: Temple Courtyard
Cooking: Loaves and Fishes Cafe
Movies: Mountaintop Movies
Computers: Fisherman's.Net
Program Name: Faith Odyssey

These are the names that won. We had a contest with open nominations for all six workshops and the program name. Our committee narrowed the list to two nominations and we voted on one a week for seven weeks.

A funny aside, one of our computer room nominations was "Bible Bytes." The adults all thought this was very clever, but a teenager pointed out that this sounds the same as "Bible Bites" -- a negative slang term. Not exactly the message we're trying to get across. The moral of the story is make sure the names sound good to kid's ears, not just adults.

Our rotation is called S. S. Discipleship. The reason we used that name is our church is focusing on being disciples of Christ and this makes the kids aware of that also. We have names for the workshops but the kids would just as soon call them storytelling workshop, art workshop, drama workshop, computer workshop, kitchen workshop, etc.

Our Rotation is under construction. Actually this Saturday is our first work day on rooms. We are slated to start in January. Our over all feel is a travel agency where kids get their passports(Name Badge) when they arrive and have one destination stamped each sunday. Our Shepherds are our "Tour Guides".

Theme: Testament Tours
Art/Cooking/Games: Mt. Carmel Creations
Theater/Music/Movement: Palestine Productions
Drama/Puppetry/Storytelling: Bethlehem Bijou
Computer/AV Newsdesk/Maps:Galilee Gigabytes

We are Kingdom Trek. Our rooms include:
Garden of Creation (art)
Caravan Camp (storytelling/video)
Oasis Theater (performing arts)
Trekking Computers (computers)
we also do games and cooking, but no clever names for those workshops

Our logo is a cartoon kid wearing shorts, t-shirt and a backpack. The logo is on the background of our song transparencies and will be used on our name tags.

The name we use for our Sunday School is Cross Training

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I love our Sunday School programs name. It was created by Luanne Feldman who started the W.o.r.m. program at our church. Our whole program is called "Footsteps" Of course our logo is a footprint and our key vs. is Psalm 119:133 Establish my footsteps in your word. We even decorated the kids hallway to have footprints on the wall leading to the classrooms.

Our program is called 'Kids on the Move!' Our mission statement includes the following 3 objectives:

• Move kids to realize that God is talking to them through Bible stories.

• Move kids to Bible literacy by ensuring they remember the story and Biblical truth taught during each rotation.

• Move kids to faithful attendance and a desire to bring a friend by emphasizing the learning environment

Our workshops are Bible Beach, Thou Art, Mary and Martha's Kitchen and Holywood. The kids check in with the Travel Agent for attendance purposes and to find out which workshop they are assigned to for that day.

Our program is called the LIGHT House. "I am the light" is just one of many Bible verses we can use. We are a seaside community with two lighthouses nearby, so this especially made sense for us. Our workshops all have a nautical/beach theme:

Seaside Cinema: Movie Theater/Video Production
Surfside Studio: Art
Cyber Cove: Computers
LIGHT House Cafe: Cooking
Mission Marina: Mission
Parable Pier: Drama
La Playa Playhouse: Games
LIGHT House Chapel: Opening Space

Monica Buzbee

These names were selected from those found at rotation.org, tweaked just a little:

B.L.A.ST. (Bible Learning Adventure Stations)

Bible Disc-overy Zone (Computers)
Desert Drama Theater
Thou Art! Studio
Marketplace (covers various subjects: storytelling, cooking, science,etc.)

At Ellijay First United Methodist our rotation Sunday School is called "Ark Angels"
Art: Noah's Art
Science: Cubit's Corner
Computer: Binary Boat
Games: Arkade
Movies: Rainy Day Theater

Our Sunday School is called "Faith Flight". The shepards are called "Stewards". Our theme is the "Destination". The workshops are called "Gates". We begin at the Boarding Gate for music, offering, review, information. From there they depart to their workshops:

Games Gate - Games
Oasis Gate - Storytelling.

There are other gates we use such as Movie, Computer, Art, Drama, Puppet, etc. I inherited most of the names with the position, the students will be helping name the gates in an inventive style in the near future.

I have added the Galley Gate, Scribe Gate, Discovery Gate (where new workshops are tested before they become gates), Newsroom Gate - the students research and write a newspaper (this rotation it is on the events of Holy Week) it will be published and inserted in the Easter Sunday bulletin. We are fortunate to have a former newspaper writer and a copy editor in our congregation to lead this workshop, however this is not necessary. We also added a Science Gate. The students loved it! We make cardstock signs for each gate with images from clip art or off the computer clip art and the name of the gate. Then we cover both sides with clear contact paper for durability. The sign is posted outside the room for parents to find their children more easily as we use some of our rooms for more that one gate, our room use sometimes depends upon other events and adult room use in the buildings. If a room is used for more than one purpose we try to at least move the furnishings around for a different effect. The students do not seem to have a problem with this.

Hope this helps someone even though we don't have inventive names at this point.

Jerrie Lynn

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Our Rotation for 1-6th is Footprints to Faith. Our various workshops are:

Let There Be Light...Camera, Action (a/v)
Wheel of Verses (Bible Skills/Games)
Thou Art
God.com
Bread of Life (cooking)
Parable Room (puppets, drama, music, storytelling, depending upon the rotation).

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We're Faith Finders Grades 1- 4

Rooms :
Discovery Den (multi purpose changes each month
Saint's Stage (drama)
Potter's Workshop (art)
Olympic Way (games, activities)

Our four groups of children are named Explorers, Adventurers, Detectives, Spies

noreene

We are just getting our Rotations up and running. We are planning on using the acronym L.I.G.H.T. (Learning in God's House Together) and are planning a lighthouse theme. Due to a lack of space we only have three rooms currently available so the room will have to serve multiple purposes. We are looking at the Cottage (story-time, Bible skills), the Lighthouse (drama/video, games) and the Workshop (art). Not all rotations will have a cooking rotation. When they do, that rotation will use the Church Kitchen.

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Posted by Kathy Davis on 7/20/02:
We are just starting our first year. Our church is Bethlehem U.C.C., so we are working off of the Bethlehem theme. We are painting our main room like a courtyard (each wall looks like a different building in old time Bethlehem - a stucco look with cracks and just a few bricks painted here and there) we will have a "well" that we will gather at each week. The individual rooms are:

The storytelling room is like you are walking into a huge tent and we call it Tent Tales.

The Drama room will have different backdrops on each wall: a seascape, a meadow, a mountain and a dessert - this is called The Stars of Bethlehem (the kids are the Stars).

The Art room is Noah's Art and will be painted like you are standing on the deck of the ark. The art stools will be painted in various animal prints.

The Theater will be BibleMax Theater.

The computer room is God.com.

The Kitchen is The Bethlehem Bread Co., and will be painted in the same colors as the St. Louis Bread Co./Panera's restaurants.

The Bible Skills/Games will be Dave & Goliath's (instead of Dave & Buster's) and we will paint a D&G on the wall similar to the Dave & Busters logo.

Thank you so much for this website! I am from Seven Hills Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama. We are starting our 1st - 6th grade rotation SS this September and it all because of you! To my knowledge there is only one other church in Mobile using SS rotation, a UMC and they have been very helpful.

We wanted our name to convey a concept so we studied the definitions of names that were suggested. We chose Faith Odyssey. The room names were designed to fit the acronym FAITH.

Father's Word = Bible stories- tent decor
Academy = Bible research & study - map decor
Imagination Station = Science/Art/Cooking -1
wall art 1 wall science 1 wall cooking decor
Truth Theater=Drama/Puppetry/Music-theater decor
Heavenly Happenings = Video - Cinema decor

We have a small SS (25-30)right now, but have over 200 children when we have Upward Basketball, so we know that the children are there. We are praying that they will come.

Thank you for this website!