Stone Soup on Sunday @ TSC
Stone Soup is a high-quality, carefully paced, and activity centered Bible discovery time. The activities include: gym games, exploration, art, drama, conversation, and music. Each week the Bible content is presented with illustrations including works of the participants.Stone Soup encourages people of different ages and abilities to relate to each other. Campers from INFANT to 32 years of age have skill appropriate opportunities. Teams work together in varying combinations to maximize each participant's learning and enjoyment. We seek to communicate in each person's best modality. The team works on listening, reading body language, and communicates with pictures, words, and signing.
Children, parents and grandparents feel welcome at the fellowship. Parents may attend an adult Bible study fellowship (called Connect Groups) or the main church service during the same time as Stone Soup on Sunday. Certain Connect Groups focus on building community with the parent(s) of campers in Stone Soup.
The approach we use is often referred to as Reverse Mainstreaming. When students of various ages and abilities learn together it prevents campers with special needs from being isolated with only other campers like themselves. On the other hand a camper can feel overwhelmed as they would be in a group where they are the very small minority in a larger class, thus causing them to be singled out and often unable to relate to the content. So a variety of options are utilized.
Stone Soup on Sunday Individual Placement and Support For those campers who can fit into a typical class with their peer aged students the director of Stone Soup conducts an evaluation of each camper in conjunction with the parents and classroom leaders to find the best way to support the camper fitting into that class.
Generally Stone Soup is designed to function across groups with a wide range of variation and to pull people of all abilities together in ways that are rarely experienced. This approach makes Stone Soup somewhat unique.