You can find Pastor Brian's children/family moment podcasts and the family worship folder at the Artisan website under worship. There was talk of a forum about kids. I don't know whether that's in the works or not. George and I have stepped back a bit this season.
But another wonderful and interesting development at Artisan, that in some ways is very Rochester: Rochester has a large community of deaf and hearing impaired, particularly at RIT. And we have a School for the Deaf. One of the largest city high schools offers ASL for foreign language/regents credit. Unusual, but I'm guessing that Spanish and ASL are the primary 2ndary languages in this town and learning either is a useful tool for students in this particular city. Artisan has had a number of RIT students coming all along and that number has included more and more deaf and hearing impaired students partly perhaps because Artisan uses multimedia and various tactile, sensory tools so we have a very visual/sensory as opposed to a mostly auditory presentation.
Lyrics are on overhead. Not unusual. But, apart from lyrics, I wonder what a visual (not auditory) musical presentation would look like with color and movement and ways to feel the beat... interesting possibilities...
Anyway, sharing an ASL class will help bridge the language barrier and foster community in fun and unique ways. A unique community for children.
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