July 3, 7th Sunday after Pentecost
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 10:13AM Daily Scripture Readings; bookofcommonprayer.net/daily_office.php
See the different options. There is full morning and evening prayer. There is also the option of the readings only. There is also an app for receiving the daily readings by email, or on a mobile device
Sunday Scripture Readings: bookofcommonprayer.net/lectionary.php
Set it for 1979 Contemporary, and the Bible version used in Church is Revised Standard Version
Coffee Hour Sign Up
The Sign up Sheet for Coffee hour for July & August will be outside the Church on Sunday. Thank you to everyone who signed up last Sunday.
We’re looking for sign ups for the Sunday’s Fr. Bob is on vacation. We need volunteers for:
7:45 August 7
10:15 July 24, 31, August 7
Email the Church Office so we can prepare the Insert Calendar for the time Fr. Bob is away.
The Financial Page: 2nd Quarter Giving Statements Mailed out
The Statements of parishioner’s giving to COA through the end of June will be mailed out this week. Thanks so much for your support of the Parish.
If necessary, please bring your pledge up to date. We still have bills to pay over the summer months.
If there are mistakes in your statement, we’ll be happy to correct them.
Food For Thought
On the Food for Thought Table this Sunday, an article from the Review section of last Sunday’s New York Times, “ When Paranoia Replaces Piety.” This article is by J.D. Vance who is the author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. We’ve heard a lot about the crisis enveloping the American working class, things like drug addiction, suicide, divorce, hopelessness, etc. This article looks at the fact that this group is no longer going to Church and what flows from that. In it, we discover just exactly what participation in a religious community does for us, what benefits flow. It is something we can easily forget.
Thank you to everyone who has signed up to take a Sunday for the Summer Sunday School.
Church of the Angels
Summer Sunday School
2016
One Sunday remain to be filled: August, 21 You can sign up by emailing the office or the Sign Up Sheet outside Church on Sunday.
The Purpose
The Summer Sunday School has two purposes. One is to give our catechists a break from all their efforts on our behalf during the year. The second is to provide an activity for children who come to Church in the summer time so their parents can have some time for quiet and reflection during the Sunday liturgy.
So the Summer Sunday School is mostly childcare that consists of reading a story and doing some activity.
The Material
We will be using The Doubleday Children’s Bible as the source for the story. We will use the stories in the New Testament. Following our procedure in Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, we don’t present very much Old Testament material until the children reach Level 3 which is 9-12.
You’ll find that answering questions from a Gospel story to be a lot easier than one from the Old Testament!
We have several copies of The Doubleday Children’s Bible, so you can pick one up at Church the week before your lesson and then leave it behind, when your done, or pass it on to the next catechist.
Since there won’t be regular attendance, feel free to pick whatever Gospel or New Testament story you want. You might check with the catechist before you to see what they did so you don’t double up.
The Activity will be various art and coloring along with small project kits from Oriental Trading Company. The art materials are in the Parish Hall.
Basic Outline of the Session. These notes are from Tracy Gaestel
Preparation before hand:
The teacher will want to be there a little early to go over what craft looks appealing and to read through the lesson. Keep the crafts on the table by the door as a "surprise" otherwise, they'll start!
When kids come in, we talk about their week and if there is anything we should pray about. (if there is only one child early, you can make a copy of a color page, but take it away before you actually start.)
Getting Going:
We started about 10:20. If you are lucky, everyone is there by 10:15. The kids are used to coming in and getting to work, so a color sheet is handy.
The Session:
10:20 - talk about the week, and what we want to pray about. (Everyone talks, some may want to talk over others)
10:25 - a short prayer thanking God for all the wonderful things that are and have happened; Asking for God's help for anything. Then everyone says AMEN (this means Let it be so!)
10:28 Start the Gospel Lesson Reading from the Children's Bible in the New Testament. I read the first "story" and showed the pictures. I talked about any words that might need explaining.
Finishing:
11:00 we were finished, I introduced the craft We did it together one step at a time. You can use the things on the table and the art material on the level 3 shelves. We cleaned up, went and washed hands
11:05 we were lining up to cross the street. This may get you there a little early, so you have a little lee-way.
Getting from the Parish Hall to the Church
Street Crossing Procedure
Very, Very, Very Important!!
Must be followed!
When crossing church Street, I have used the following method.
Everyone STOPS before they reach the street. You can see better, if you are up a little higher and if a person is on the street, it is easier to walk out "just a little" to see better. This must not happen.
Once stopped, look up Church Street ( cars race down this street.) If you see one, you wait.
Then you look down to Avenue 64 TO THE STOP SIGNS. If a car is there, wait to see if it will be turning left up Church Street or right up Church ST.
If everything is clear, you look back up Church Street.
When all is clear, the adult asks if it is ok to cross, and then you cross. An adult stands in the middle of the street until everyone is across and then goes over.
If you are using the cross, everyone stays behind the cross.
I don't like a stop sign, because I like my hands free in case I need to grab someone. Also, I go through this verbally and ask the kids to say when it is safe or unsafe.
Every Sunday go through this verbally and ask the kids to say when it is safe or unsafe. We are trying to get this method ingrained in them!!