Children's Chapel during October has had many highlights as well as fun moments.  We continue to have many adults join us at this time. It warms the heart and adds to the sense of "family" worship.

 

Father Harvey's involvement literally adds music to our ears and joy and knowledge to our spiritual growth. One lesson demonstrated how different our world seems when we view it from a different perspective. Noelle J. modeled this by standing on her head and describing how very different the world looked.

 

Many of our prayers and thoughts went to the victims of

the natural disasters which are daily in the news. Particularly the people of Puerto Rico. During November, we will give much thought to how blessed we are and the many things we have to be thankful for.

 

Our speaker system, provided by Mike Way, has been an inspiration for the children to participate in reading our weekly prayers.

 

The hymns we will sing in November are "All Things Bright and Beautiful" and also "Rise and Shine."

There are MANY ways you support our children. These are just a few for which we give thanks: getting them to Calvary by 9:30 to participate in Chapel, sometimes joining our service, helping in our mission to raise money for the victims of Puerto Rico by supporting our can and bottle drive and  donating your time and talent. A special thanks to Natalie for volunteering to maintain our Birthday Calendar.

 

May we all have a thankful November.

Greetings from the Beginner classroom! Our group has been discussing the idea of God's promises. We have heard stories about God's promises to Noah, Abraham and Sarah. Now we are exploring the stories of how Moses was saved by Pharaoh's daughter, his experience with the burning bush and soon how Moses would lead the people of Israel out of Egypt. These stories of Moses will transition into the Advent season where we will look at the birth of Jesus from the perspective of the shepherds. All of this along with a Halloween celebration on October 29th and a conversation about All Saints' Day. We look forward to reading stories, singing songs and creating in our classroom to bring these lessons to life. Please come and join us!

-Dr. Sarah English

During the month of October, we have had about five or six students attending class each Sunday. We have been learning about the prophets Elijah, Elisha, Amos, and Isaiah.

 

We are pleased by the progress our children are making with regard to looking up Bible passages and in reading/speaking to the class.

 

In November we hope to learn about the prophets Micah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. Their messages from God to the chosen people of Israel speak powerfully to us in 2017. Their warnings are relevant and their words of hope and encouragement challenge us to obey God's commands. The choice is ours.

 

Our Thanksgiving Holiday will be here before you know it. What a perfect time to reflect upon all of our countless blessings! How grateful we are for God's mercy and grace! Let's express our thanks to God by what we say and by what we do. "We love you, Jesus! Thanks for loving us!"  

 

-Mr. George Mayer 

This coming November, the Junior Youth Class will finish up the lessons on the prophets. We've learned about a lot of interesting prophets over the past two months. We will also get in a lesson on All Saints Day. Learning about the prophets has proved very interesting as each one has a fascinating and sometimes harrowing history. The last lesson of the month, the students will get a composite history of each prophet. We will explore the similarities and differences of each man. All students have started coloring their Old Testament poster and I hope to have the students start writing in their favorite prophets and stories. Also we did not get to our October craft of the notebook, so I will instead have them do a "Give Thanks" book for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Students will be able to write in all the things they are Thankful for. I encourage all Junior Youth to attend, there is fascinating material to learn and fun crafts to make. All Junior Youth have been provided with a Books of the Bible craft to aide them in looking up Bible verses.  

The role of class parents is to "shepherd" new parents through Sunday School and Calvary, to be a link between teachers and parents and Calvary and parents, and to take leadership in organizing family/social events and signups. 

 

We are still looking for class parents! If your child is in the Beginner Class, the Intermediate Class, or the Junior Youth Class, and you would like to be a classroom parent, please let the teacher or Emily Sityar know.

 

Wondering what a class parent does? The Primary Class organized a  Class Apple Picking Trip! This pay your own way event was an opportunity for Primary Class parents and kids to get together outside of church and have fun.