On Growing a Green Wall, Having Enough, and Learning about Creativity and Cooperation

This month is the first official month where we've started to gather content for our blog. I will be acting as advisor for this Awesome Blog, and will contribute a monthly posts about what we've been doing and what we have planned.

We talk about a lot of things during Sunday School - and the topics this year have ranged from, bullying and how rules get broken, to when enough is enough, to and how young people contribute to making change in the world.

We've adopted as a group the program Free Rice as our community project this year, with an invitation to all of the BES members to participate in this great educational and humanitarian effort.

We started out the fall with the younger students planting lettuce terrariums, and the older students learning about growing green walls in Brooklyn, thanks to Ted Talks for Kids. Embedded next to this post is the Ted Talk on the student powered movement to bring city grown food to the local table in neighborhoods where food deserts had been the norm. The teacher is very energetic, and inspires the kind of passion neccessary to propel a movement. The older students also learned about the good, the bad, and the ugly of Sea World. They hope to continue a conversation/debate on varying view of how PETA handles mistreatment of animals.

In two weeks we will be presenting an original interpretation of the fairy tail Stone Soup during the annual Baltimore Ethical Society Harvest Festival. Learning the story and practicing for the play has been a great way for each of the students to individually and as a group to contribute to creatively building the story. We're looking forward to seeing how the play turns our next Sunday.

In future posts, we will be featuring segments from an interview with a young adult member Kate - and our VLOG editor Camille, along with more artwork, and contributions from all of the students.  

Here's a portrait of the gang - brought to you by one of our Awesome Kids, Brianna.