SAVE THE DATE

VBS will be June 3-7

for all rising K-5th graders.

6th-12th graders can be Counselors

and receive community service hours.

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Hello families,

Stories and storytelling are powerful tools for passing on wisdom, values, and history that help inform our paths forward in life. They set our minds free to wonder about the characters within them, to be curious about the things we might have in common or not, and to practice empathy by entering into the story with them.

During Black History Month in Children's Church, we will hear stories about the accomplishments of 4 people of African descent from all over the world and throughout history. This week, we will follow along with the adults in learning about Absalom Jones, then Harriet Tubman, Arthur Wharton (born in Ghana -outstanding athlete in many different sports, becoming the first Black man to play professional soccer in 1889) , and Leymah Gbowee (a remarkable woman who used her voice to bring a peaceful end to a civil war in Liberia). You can look up their stories with your child and wonder about what it must have been like for that person, in that time, in that culture to have done what they did. What values or traits kept them going? What can we learn from them and how will "meeting" them change you going forward?

Don't forget :

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper(5:00-7:00)

and an All Ages Service (6:00-6:30) where we will sing, pray, burn our palms from last year (bring yours!) and bury our Alleluias for the season of Lent. Pancakes will be served before and after the service by the Youth going on Pilgrimage this summer. The cost of dinner (and any donations) will go towards defraying the cost of the trip.

Sign up Here

All Ages Ash Wednesday Service (5:00-5:30) in between choirs. Regular Wednesday Night Supper will be as usual.

Need volunteers for Children's Church on Feb. 18 (I will be out)

Need volunteers to make sandwiches on Feb. 24 (see below)

Peace,

Kathy

Fridge Spirituality love this!

Thanksgivings

For kids and the lessons they teach me each week. Me, as I am watching a child dance to the music during the musical: " You like to dance to the songs." Child: "I can't help it. When we sing church songs, I guess the Holy Spirit gets activated in me."

Philadephia 11 Documentary Viewing and Light Lunch

Feb. 11th, after the 11:15 service

In what is now unremarkable to most, All Saints’ parish has been served by over a dozen ordained female priests. But it was only fifty years ago that eleven courageous women arranged their own ordination in Philadelphia before the General Convention settled the controversial issue three years later. Their ordination divided churches and provoked national outrage against the women who dared to defy the Church’s and Christianity’s patriarchy.

All parishioners, men and women, are invited to come after the 11:15 service on the 11th for a light lunch and screening of the documentary about this historic event. The Revs. Jenny McBride, Naomi Tutu, and Karen Evans will lead a discussion. Not available to the general public, the film invites us to question historical hierarchies and the meaning of radical inclusivity and to reflect on why it is important for our walk of faith to have female priests.

Register Here. Watch the trailor Here

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper 5:00-7:00pm

All Ages Service 6:00-6:30pm

Join us to sing, pray, burn our palms from last year (bring yours!) and bury our Alleluias for the season of Lent. Pancakes will be served before and after the service by the Youth who are going on Pilgrimage this summer. The cost of dinner (and any donations) will go towards defraying the cost of the trip.

All Ages Ash Wednesday Service

Feb. 14, 5:00-5:30 in the church

(adapted from Worshippingwithchildren.blogspot.2013)

Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday.  It is one of the services of the church year children are least likely to attend.  That is unfortunate because there are three big reasons for them to be there.  

** When children see all the adults they love and respect wearing ashes and they themselves are marked with ashes, they know they belong.  They are one of God’s people.  Other days they may know that with their minds, but on Ash Wednesday they know it in a powerful way with their eyes.

** Because we are all marked not with golden markers but with messy black ashes, children learn that all of us mess up and are forgiven.  The most loved and respected adult they know does and they do.  In a world where they are constantly told they can do better and can make good choices and should be special, this is important life-shaping information.

** This year, we will all mark each other with the ashes. Just as children get to give communion to each other and adults on Wednesday nights, marking each other gives them and us a powerful reminder that children are full members of the body of Christ, that they can step into their priesthood in this community and in the world, and that they have a direct relationship with God that is their own.

I hope you will join us from 5-5:30 in the church.

Sandwich Make for Habitat Volunteers

Plant Seeds of Hope

February 24, 10-11am

We need Volunteers. Won't you come? Bring a friend or neighbor.

Join us to make sandwiches for volunteers working on our Habitat House on Saturday, Feb. 24th from 10-11am. The kids want to be a part of this outreach ministry, but unfortunately, they are too young. What we can do is plant some flowers in containers to deliver at the Giving Over Ceremony and we can make food for those working on the house. We will meet in Ellis Hall to put together about 50 sandwiches and and plant our seeds in containers. I will take the sandwiches over to the house (anyone else is welcome to follow me over to help serve them!). We will keep the plants on our window sill until time to deliver them. We will make turkey and ham sandwiches, I will provide the chips and cookies. Please sign up to bring one of the ingredients and join us for some good old fashioned service ministry time. And if you have any old potting soil or pots, let me know.

"God use our hands and feet to serve others".

Sign Up Here

This Sunday, February 11, 2024

Nursery : 8:30-12:30

1st floor Pritchett Center

Children's Church: 8:45 gathering; 9:00 service; 9:30 meet you in church after communion

2nd floor Pritchett Center

Children's Formation: 10:20-11:05

2nd floor Pritchett Center



Children's Church

Helpers Needed especially on Feb. 18 while Ms. Kathy is out.

It's a new year and we need folks to sign up to help in Children's Church.

Please check your calendar and sign up Here

Register Now for Formation and Choir

Formation and Choir Registration 2023-2024

February Dates

CC=Children's Church

CF=Children's Formation

Jan. 28

CC - we come to you at the Peace.

CF - class as usual

Feb. 4

CC - we come to you at the Peace.

CF - no classes, Go to the Choir Musical in Ellis Hall

Feb. 11

CC - Second Sunday we come after we take Communion

CF - class as usual

Philadelphia 11 Documentary in Ellis Hall

Feb. 13

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Dinner/Burning of Palms/Burying the Alleluias

Dinner begins at 5:00; Service 6:00-6:30

Feb 14

Ash Wednesday Service for All Ages

5:00-5:30 in the church

Feb. 18 1st Sunday of Lent

CC - we come to you at the Peace, after Baptisms.

CF - class as usual

Feb. 24

Sandwich Build for Habitat Participants 10:00

Feb. 25 2nd Sunday of Lent

CC - we come to you at the Peace.

CF - class as usual

K-3rd grades Club 45

1/7 David is Anointed

1/14 MLK activity

1/21. David & Goliath

1/28 King David and Solomon

2/4. Musical no class

2/11 The Lord is My Shepherd

2/18 Boy Jesus in the Temple

2/25 Jesus Calls His Disciples

3/3 The Beattitudes

3/10 Jesus Walks on Water

3/17 The Parable of the Vineyard

3/24 Jesus Water into Wine

3/31 Easter - no class

4/7 Mary and Martha

4/14 Jesus Raises Lazarus

4/21 The Lost Sheep and Coin

4/28 Jesus Heals Ten with Leprosy

5/5. The Parable of the Talents

5/12 End of Year Party in class

5/19 Sundae Sunday

1/7 Joseph Coat ofMany Colors

1/14 Moses/MLK

1/21Moses Exodus/Wilderness

1/28 Commandments

2/4. Musical - no class

2/11 Promised Land

2/18 Judges

2/25 David

3/3. Solomon's Temple

3/10 Kingdoms

3/17 Prophets

3/24 Rewind/FIA MAC

3/31 Easter - no class

4/7 Babylon

4/14 Diaspora

4/21 Return

4/28 Occupation

5/5. Caesar

5/12 Fun and Trivia

5/19 Sundae Sunday

*FIA = Faith In Action days of service