Welcome to CLC Sunday School corner. Look here to find out what we are doing in Sunday School and the Atrium and also to find some things that you can do at home to enforce what your children learn in the Sunday School classroom.
Lent is just around the corner. Lent is a natural time to explore what we believe and how we practice our faith in our daily lives. In the liturgical calendar, which we will explore in the Atrium over lent, this is preparation time and is represented by the color purple. We are preparing for the most important Christian holiday, Easter. Christ's death and resurrection are the underpinnings of being a Christian, a follower of Christ; during lent, we reflect on what this means to us.
For little ones, the focus is on how we show what we believe, not on Christ's suffering and dying. The focus is on God's love for us and what it is that God asks from us as a response. Children understand the enormity, power and presence of God's love. They find comfort in knowing that no matter what we do, God loves us.
Over the weeks leading up to Easter, the period of the church year called lent that begins with Ash Wednesday (February 17th this year) and through Palm Sunday and into Holy week, the children will be looking at what marks us as Christians. The Adult Forum and lent studies for grownups is focusing on a book called "Marks of a Christian"; the children will explore the concepts from the book and will look at what those mean and how we can show the marks of our faith in our daily lives and activities.
Look here over the next weeks to see how we are introducing this to your children and to find ideas and activities that you can practice at home and throughout the week to enforce the Sunday School message.
For now, as the snow comes down for the fourth big storm of this winter season, try singing your dinner blessing by using either the Rock'n'Roll grace (sung to a rock'n'roll beat): "God is great! God is good! Now we thank God for our food. Amen!" OR the supeman grace: "Thank you God, for giving us food! Thank you God, for giving us food! For the food we e-eat; and the friends we mee-et! We thank you, God, for giving us food! Amen! " (If you can't remember the motions, I'll bet your children can. And the latter grace is sung to the superman theme tune.)
