Dear Church Family, The new year is approaching and so is our Sunday School Unit 3, which begins January 8th. We are still in need of a few helpers and teachers, specifically: l Helpers for January 1st service l Preschool and Kindergarten group teacher, Unit 3 l 8:45 Service teacher, Unit 3 l 8:45 Service [...]
The Christian Education Board is excited to announce our purchase of a new internet-based curriculum, Faith Practices: Activities for Worship, Learning and Serving. Faith Practices is a new set of online resources covering every age group of our congregation. Pastor Jenn has reviewed the program, which was created by and for local United Church of [...]
The nursery at MCC will implement a new safety measure beginning in November. The Christian Education Board, which oversees the nursery, wants to ensure that children are only released to the guardian who dropped them off. Many of the children in the nursery are too young to identify their parents themselves so the nursery worker [...]
Hello MCC Families, Halloween is right around the corner, and so is Unit 2 of our Sunday School Program! Don’t worry, volunteering to work with the kids is not as scary as you might think! There are lots of ways to help and be a part of our wonderful program. Unit 2 runs from October [...]
Who is responsible for the spiritual feeding and growth of the children of MCC? Is it their parents, the pastors, the Sunday School workers, or the church members? When recruiting people to staff the Sunday School program, I received a wide variety of responses, ranging from eagerness, to uncertainty, to avoidance. All of these responses [...]
Registration applications can be found on the MCC website mcc-ucc.org, the church office or Wilton Hall.
My sincere prayer for all of you is that you have felt God’s presence this week as we all recover from Hurricane Irene. While we all may be anxious to return to our back-to-normal lives, there may be one positive that has come out of this: we have all suddenly found ourselves with more “unplugged” [...]
The 2010-2011 Sunday school program will end on June 5 with a review of the four units covered this year: “Teach Us to Pray,” “The Feeding of the Five Thousand,” “Self-Control,” and “Easter: People.” The review will be in a game-show format and will be a fun way for the children to revisit what they [...]
Sunday School Spring Schedule Our regular Sunday school program for 2010-2011 ended a few weeks ago, but there’s plenty on the spring schedule to keep our children thinking and growing in their faith. A highlight of the spring is Children’s Sunday on May 22, which will feature the participation in worship of children from [...]
This month, all children between the ages of 3 and 13 are invited to submit a design for the cover of the Children’s Sunday bulletin on May 22nd. Our theme is “Building Bridges”. To submit an entry: color, draw or decorate on a white 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper and give it to Pastor [...]
Sunday School: “What’s it all about?” All Sunday School parents and all other interested MCC members and friends are invited and encouraged to attend a brief meeting on Sunday, April 3 at 11:45 in Wilton Hall (after second service) to learn and understand more about our Sunday School program and the opportunities to volunteer and [...]
Sunday School: “What’s it all about?” All Sunday School parents and all other interested MCC members and friends are invited and encouraged to attend a brief meeting on Sunday, April 3 at 11:45 in Wilton Hall (after second service) to learn and understand more about our Sunday School program and the opportunities to volunteer and [...]
Believe it or not, on Feb. 27 our fourth and final Sunday school unit of the year begins. If you’ve been wanting to volunteer but haven’t yet done so, now is your chance. If you’ve volunteered already this year and want to do it again, we’d love to have you. This spring there is another [...]
Your CE Board has been exceptionally busy, and I’d like to share with you some of the successful events we’ve completed: - The Jesse Tree activity in December was a huge success thanks to Angela Cross and Lani Siciliano! We had approximately 30 students rotate through 3 art projects that they took home to hang [...]
“Be wise, and give serious thought to the way you live.” This verse from Proverbs will guide instruction for our next Sunday school unit, “Self-Control.” If you’ve eaten as many cookies as I have over the past few weeks, you can appreciate how the timing of this unit makes a lot of sense. Yes, Christmas [...]
If you’ve felt recently that the differences between American political culture and The Jerry Springer Show are getting harder and harder to identify, you might take great comfort, as I do, in knowing that at MCC, the culture of respect and civility is alive and well. We’re certainly not perfect, but as I witness how [...]
October 17 is the final day of our first unit in Sunday school. For five weeks, the children have been learning the story of how Jesus fed 5,000 people with just two fish and five loaves of bread. We’ll have our second “goals Sunday” on October 24, and then unit 2 will begin on October [...]
Parents who have not already done so should fill out a registration form (copies are in the pews and on the CE bulletin board in Wilton Hall). Our “Feeding of the 5,000” rotation (unit 1) begins September 19 and runs through October 17. Through art, cooking, games, science, music, and storytelling, the children will learn the story of Jesus’ [...]
Almost two years ago, I reluctantly accepted the position as chair of the Board of Christian Education. It wasn’t that I was lukewarm about Christian education–far from it. It was that my commitments to the music program limited my participation in Sunday school to volunteering one Sunday in the summer and occasionally serving as CE [...]
Whoever said that “change is constant” was right on the mark with the CE Board …and it’s with pride that I can tell you that Don Parker-Burgard has offered to fill the gigantic hole that Kim Rifflard left as Sunday School Coordinator when her term ended in June. Don will be coordinating the curriculum, grade-level [...]
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