An impromptu talk before lunch after the Bishop Visitation on Pentecost.
Education
Looking back to the beginning of Summer, 2016, 8 years ago
Traveling back in time for June and July, 2016 marks the transition from spring to summer. We have a slide show and a description.
Look back to June, July 2016(full size gallery)
Here are some of the events that happened over the 2 month period:
1. Altarpiece center portion and other sections completed so scaffolding could be removed in July
A. July 21, 2016
B. July 13, 2016
C. July 3, 2016
D. June 26, 2016
E. June 11, 2016
F. June 11, 2016
G. June 9, 2016
God’s Garden – Palm Sunday to Easter
This week was the culmination of the Lenten part of God’s Garden. They reviewed the Palm Sunday story which they had heard earlier. They made beaded crosses to hang around their necks. Finally, after working on the Lord’s Prayer with hand movements earlier in Lent they presented their work to the congregation today on Palm Sunday, March 24,2024
1. Reviewing the story on Palm Sunday
2. Creating crosses
3. Reciting the Lord’s Prayer – Palm Sunday in Church
The Creeds Class, Part 5, March 20, 2024
“We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church.”
The creeds claim that the church is an essential part of the faith.
But what exactly is church? How would you define the church?
Ecclesia, being called out
The Christian church began when the people who had followed Jesus during his ministry came to believe in his resurrection and gathered together in a fellowship. This happened in Jerusalem in 30CE. The birth of the Christian church coincides with the emergence of the resurrection faith.
God’s Garden makes “Resurrection Eggs”
On the week before Palm Sunday, the children created “Resurrection Eggs”. There were 12 numbered plastic eggs each with an object, a symbol of the events on that day of Holy Week. The children numbered the eggs, put an object in the eggs and heard a story. For example, the first was a palm branch for Palm Sunday. The story is taken through Holy Week to the Resurrection.
Here are the two handouts followed by the video segments:
The Creeds Class, Part 4, March 13, 2024
“Worship the Holy Spirit” – Lance Brown
I believe in the Holy Spirit
Collect for Trinity Sunday – ” Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see you in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever.” Amen
This session completes the Trinity with the Holy Spirit. There were 6 participants.
The Holy Spirit
In Hebrew and in Greek, the word spirit means “breath.” Our spirit is the breath of life that allows us to be active. God’s spirit is God’s activity throughout all the ages, beginning with creation and continuing into our lives today.
Lenten Study, The Creeds, A Guide to Deeper Faith
When we say the Creeds (the Apostles’ Creed at baptisms and at Morning Prayer and the Nicene Creed when we celebrate the Eucharist), we are stating our belief in what the church believes, in faith, about God—that God is one being in three persons—that is, three “persons” within the one Godhead.
It’s easy to say these words without much thought because they are so familiar. And yet, they are the words that create community among Christian believers around the world, past, present, and future, the Apostles’ Creed being the most widely used of all of Christianity’s confessions of faith. These words are so important that they are permanently attached to our altar wall, along with the Ten Commandments and the Lord’s Prayer. The creeds not only bind us together in communities of faith, but these words, if taken into our hearts, can lead us to a deeper faith.
During this season of Lent, we will study these creeds, learning about how they came to be, what they mean to the Church, and we will also reflect on how they may help us grow in faith as Christians.
The study is scheduled for five Wednesday nights of Lent—Weds Feb. 21st, 28th, and March 6th, 13th, and 20th at 7PM on Zoom ID: 833 7014 5820 Passcode: 528834
God’s Garden – Lent and Holy Week
Welcome all children ages 5-9!
They are still working on their Lord’s Prayer for Easter but will be learning about Holy Week beginning on March 10.