This year, summer Sunday School has been quite a bit different than usual! Gathering on Zoom with our teachers Mrs. Newton, Mrs. Draeger, Mrs. DuChateau, and Mrs. Wysocki has taught us the important of staying connected through God's word. Despite the challenges of learning together through screens, our teachers have creatively and patiently "loved us to Jesus" by teaching Bible stories, inviting questions and discussion, sending home coloring pages and activities, and helping us to connect the dots between the Sunday School curriculum and lessons from the Pastors' sermons. Seeing the familiar faces of our church family and friends has helped us remember how important it is to check on each other when things aren't quite normal. The unique challenge of having Sunday School over Zoom has also allowed us to have interesting conversations about Saul's conversion, caring for our neighbors, and how early Christians celebrated church holidays like Ascension and Pentecost! Plus, since we are worshiping from home, we can do cool things like have show and tell with our pets during class too. It's a hoot! Thanks to our wonderful teachers, families, and kiddos for graciously navigating this unique season of worship and faithfulness together! 

Our last session of Sunday morning Zoom will be Sunday, June 7 at our usual time. 

Our next summer session will resume during the new schedule for the Connections group bible hour: Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. The link to join us will still be found on this page of the church website!

Since Summer Sunday School meets while the "grown-ups" have their Connections Sunday School class, we wanted to show you a little bit of what we have been learning recently. During the week leading up to Pentecost, Mrs. Newton led the elementary school kids through a creative devotion and reflection on Pentecost. Doing this creative scavenger hunt got us thinking about what some of the important themes, symbols, and aspects of Pentecost are. First we read read Acts 2:1-47 to discover the incredible occasion that we would be celebrating Sunday in worship! Then we received our scavenger hunt list, and were told to take a picture with something that captured the following: wind, fire, any nationality, something that represents the number of people baptized that day, the name of the apostle who preached or the meaning of his name, or the quoted passage from Joel  found in Acts 2:17-21. Below you can see what we came up with - can you guess which pictures go with which Pentecost themes? If you get stumped, flip through the scripture while embracing your inner child- our kids are pretty clever!