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Welcome/Directions | What We Believe | Our Worship |
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Children's Ministry |
Christian Education
Hour: 9:25 a.m. |
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We embrace our children as special gifts in the full
life of the church, because the children of God’s people belong to Him,
and have been formally claimed by Him in the covenant and Sacrament of
Holy Baptism. We do our best to help children and their families
learn to worship God together.  A Sunday School program assists fathers and mothers in their responsibility to bring up their children in the “nurture and admonition of the Lord” (see Ephesians 6:4). Sunday School can never replace the godly home, but it can be of great assistance to it. For example, a developed memory program is designed to be rehearsed around the dinner table or family worship each day, helping the family fulfill its responsibility. Sunday School classes then recite their memory several times per year to the parish at fellowship dinners. Various services formally include the children - as members of the worshiping Body. They have special roles to play at Christmas Eve, the Feast of Lights, Mothering Sunday, Palm Sunday, and by flowering the Cross with their Mite Boxes at Easter. Serving others is also central to developing in Christ: helping on Work Days and putting together care packages for Shut-In members teaches them that they are both part of one family and that worshiping God grows into helping each other. Children have an important work in learning to love God with all their heart, soul, mind and strength, and to love their neighbor as themselves. We encourage our youth to think of themselves as members one Body, the Church, not as a separate group of humanity known as “teenagers”! Rather, we include them on every level, assisting in the music ministry, singing in choir, helping ushers, learning the arts of Acolytes, Lectors and the Altar Guild, and of course in working with men and women on parish work days or on house-building trips to Mexico. Children learn their way in the faith by acquiring knowledge, in serving others, and in building rich relationships with the elderly, each other, and everyone in between. Making it through the formal service can be taxing for the young family. Nursery help is available for the very young and older Dads and Moms are available to “adopt” younger children for a few months, while they are learning to participate and enjoy the worship service.
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Almighty God, our
heavenly Father, who hast committed to thy holy Church the care and
nurture of thy children; Enlighten with thy wisdom those who teach and
those who learn, that, rejoicing in the knowledge of thy truth, they
may worship thee and serve thee from generation to generation; through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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