Our goal was to strengthen the prayer life of each child, but an added bonus has been the development of new relationships between the young and older members of our parish family. …
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Shrove Tuesday at Home
Shrove Tuesday is an occasion to encourage members to consider hosting a “Fat Tuesday” dinner in their own homes and invite neighbors, friends, and family to join them. Pancakes …
CMT Ushered Christian Formation into a New Era
When the Center for the Ministry of Teaching (CMT) opened at Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) in 1984, the heyday of the American Sunday school had ended two decades earlier. …
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Your Spiritual Year In Review
"This spiritual practice of reflection is powerful and honors one year as it travels back into the Lord’s hands. Then my hands are empty to receive God’s gift of the new year – …
Three Teaching Points for Epiphany
Epiphany reminds us that Christmas is just the beginning of the story. The Meaning of Epiphany The church celebrates Epiphany on January 6th each year, twelve days after Christmas …
Keeping the Feast: 12 Days of Christmas
"Early on the Second Day of Christmas, I was thinking about a creative way to “keep the feast” that might fill actually fill my sails a bit and connect me with the wonder of the …
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Classroom Management, Sunday School Style
"Children crave someone to guide them so that everyone can feel safe, secure, loved and wanted. When you take the time to work on the structure of your group (and sometimes your …
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Christmas Pageant Ideas, Tips, and Scripts
"Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere! Go tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born!" Preparing for the Pageant Does your church offer a …
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Building a Staff for VBS
VBS staffing is a chicken and egg question. Do you begin by building a team of volunteers, which will determine the number of children you can safely register? Or, do you set a …
Sharing Stewardship with Children
All things come of thee O Lord, and of thine own have we given thee. ~ 1 Chronicles 29: 14 Being good stewards of creation is a task set to all people from the very start of …