Christian Education …
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·         Provides a multidimensional Christian education program.

·         Recruits and equips teachers and leaders to inspire and educate.

·         Maintains resources which support a broad understanding of our faith journey.

·         Assures the safety of all people entrusted to us through the policies of Safe Sanctuaries.

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Members: Chair                                                                                             Cary Burke

The committee members are reviewing the Leg list to identify those who live close, have moved away, joined other churches, and so forth.  

 

Sunday School                                                                                    Courtney Bukva

We are underway with determining vacation schedules for the teachers and recruiting more teachers.  In addition, we are identifying the students who will be promoted this fall and getting certificates and bibles ready for the upcoming 3rd graders.  Next year is also a confirmation year.

 

Historian/Archives                                                                                              Ann Poe

The historian has moved into a classroom on the 3rd floor where she has been equipped with a full desk and filing cabinet.  We will look this year to get Mrs. Poe access to a computer and scanner to start transferring information to disk.

  

 

Boy and Girl Scouts                                                                                      Ray LeMay

 

God & County Program                                                                          Karrie Grigsby

                                                                                                                                        

Karrie will begin planning for a new series of classes for the fall.

 

Cub Scouts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Laura LeMay

Girl Scouts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Diane Rusnak

 

Higher Education                                                                                       Cathy Bower

Meeting to determine Scholarship recipients was May 20th.  Recipient(s) announced June 8 were Tyler Jenkins and Tasha Hemminger. 

 

Nursery                                                                                                  Sue Underwood

The Nursery door will be transformed into a Dutch Door (half can be opened) so that the bottom part of the door can remained closed to keep kids in and the upper part of the door can remain open (safe sanctuary necessity).  Also, Sue is using a Toddler curriculum for the kids brought to the nursery during Sunday School in addition to stories and music.

 

Vacation Bible School                                                                            Elaine Halsted

Beach Party VBS “Surfin through the Scriptures” kicked off with a dinner on Sunday, June 22nd complete with picnic food, music, crafts, and more.  Then VBS continued through each night of the following week from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm.  It was a wonderful and successful week!

 

Senior Education                                                                                                       TBD

 

Family/Adult Education                                                                                            TBD

 

Children’s Ministry                                                                                    Sherry Haffer

No Report at this time.

General Education Report:                                                                          Cary Burke

The attendance at Education Leg meetings has been up and down, however the communication seems to be okay.  We concluded the end of this school year with Graduation Sunday June 8, the Summer Sunday School Calendar for teachers and Vacation Bible School.  The date for the Fall Sunday School open house is September 7, which will coincide with Promotion Sunday.  Promotion will be held in the Sanctuary at 10 am.   Club Mission, a summer youth project, worked on crafts for mission projects and held classes on various topics such as Going Green, Home Finances, and Pre-Teen Crisis.

 

I attended Virginia Conference on June 15th for two days and sought out resources, spoke with other Christian educators and shopped with Cokesbury.    Any classroom or bible study needs should be reported to me so I can continue to shop for you.

 

We are always open to suggestions or ideas for additional classes or resources.  Please contact us at my email frumceducation@comcast.net or call the church at 635-2935.