What’s Happening in Children’s Ministries (Jan 7, 2018)
Happy New Year to all of you! WCPSS played a little trick on us this morning, but I hope that your children are now settled back into school 😊.
Children’s Ministries is back in full swing and there is A LOT going on. Please read this email in it’s entirety…there is information about Acolyte classes, VBS and Teddy Bear Tea! $1193.57 toward our goal of $3000.00.
- Sunday School and Children’s Chapel resume on Sunday! Sunday School will start at 10:10am in the Education Building and Children’s Chapel, for children ages 3-2nd grade, will be held at the 9am and 11:15am services.
- Pre-EYC meets next Sunday, January 14 at 11:15am. 4th and 5th graders-we are looking forward to seeing you!
Sunday School this Week: Nicodemus Pays a Secret Visit.
Summary: Nicodemus is a religious leader, a Pharisee. He pays a secret visit to Jesus to try to find out who he is, and to learn from him. Jesus talks to Nicodemus about the need to be “born again” or “born from above” (both meanings are acceptable translations from the Greek). Nicodemus misunderstands. He keeps pressing Jesus for understanding, and Jesus, with just a little impatience, keeps explaining how the Spirit will work in us.
Episcopal Thread: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son…” These words are so famous in Christianity that often one can say only “John 3:16” in place of the words themselves and others will know them. Again in the Episcopal Church, a balance. There is no single sentence that has priority over all others in the Bible. This passage is one of the sentences of comfort that are said by the priest after confession and absolution in Holy Eucharist, Rite I (BCP, p. 332). Nicodemus’ experience is like the experiences of many of us in the church. We wonder, we doubt, we have a hard time understanding. We may leave the church—and then come back. Jesus does not condemn Nicodemus for his doubts. Neither does the Episcopal Church condemn for doubting. Because Anglicans honor reason as one of the “three stools” of Anglicanism (along with Scripture and tradition), doubt is seen as natural. Understanding may come gradually, as it did with Nicodemus. For Anglicans, faith and salvation are part of a process of encountering God and living into a relationship with God that is lifelong, cradle to grave.
Things to wonder with your children:
■■ Who came to see Jesus, and when did he come?
■■ What did he want from Jesus?
■■ What did Jesus say to him?
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments about Children’s Ministries.
See you on Sunday!
Christine
Christine Owens Ingram, SPHR
Parish Administrator and Director of Children’s Ministries
2018 Children’s Calendar
June 11-15 VBS!