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Feb. 2008 Church School Report
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Christ Church Sunday School now has more than 50 registered children in
attendance from Nursery through sixth grade. We have a few more new families
with young children who, we hope, will register and be active in the Sunday
School program very soon.
The dedicated Sunday School staff includes Vera Davis in our Nursery; Pam Storozum and Cathy Trezza teaching the Pre-K 3’s, 4’s and Kindergarten; Arlene Blocker and Susan Bunyon teaching 1st and 2nd grades; Lisa Carr teaching 5th and 6th and me teaching 3rd and 4th. Jeannine Daly and Pam Smith complement the staff as our substitute teachers.
We begin each Sunday in the chapel at 9:30 with a children’s service led by Father Lowry. The children have “jobs” just as the adults do in church. They are ushers, they light and extinguish the candles, they read the lesson and they collect the offertory. Laura Pavlovich is the Chapel Choir Mistress who leads the children in songs each week. We hope you have heard the children sing the songs they practice on certain Sundays in the Church. The children actively participate in the church’s Fourth Food Sunday outreach project and the Northport Veterans Hospital card program.
Highlights of our projects, activities and outreach during the past year were: Valentines for Veterans, Mardi Gras/pot luck supper, Easter “egg” hunt, Spring celebration and Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. We would like to thank the entire congregation for the outstanding effort put forth for this project. With Susan Bunyon’s devotion to this cause, we surpassed our last year’s total of shoeboxes. Lisa Carr again proved the children’s Christmas pageant to be a wonderful event, and the live animals behaved so well!
As Sunday School teachers, we are devoted to helping the children know and love Jesus and God, to feel “at home” in our church and to become involved members of our parish family. We strive to offer exciting and interesting classes and lessons each week; to keep all children involved in participation and study and to educate them in church procedures. A major goal is for the children to attend Sunday school consistently, due to their own enthusiasm in the program, along with parental commitment and support. We encourage the older children to combine study and service to the church and the community. We hope that the children will take home and use the lessons they learn each week.
The teachers appreciate any suggestions or comments you may have and we thank you for your continued support in our efforts to educate all our children.
I am ever grateful for the commitment, dedication and caring that our teachers have for our church and our Sunday School program.
Respectfully Submitted,
Heather Bennett
3 February 2008
