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Children’s Ministries

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Link to Church Calendar (with filter to only show events for children)

Weekly Sunday school

All children are invited to attend the weekly Sunday school starting at 10:15 AM (downstairs). The children come back upstairs for the consecration of the Eucharist in holy Communion around 10:50.

Special Events throughout the year (cycle starts in September)

– Taste of orthodoxy festival children’s booth (Saturday September 30, 2017)
– All Saints’ Day dress up (Sunday October 29, 2017)
– St. Nicholas’ Day (Sunday December 3, 2017)
– St. Lucy’s baking (to be confirmed, possibly Sunday December 17, 2017)
– Children’s Theophany (Three Kings’ Cakes) (Sunday January 7 or 14, 2017 – to be confirmed)
– Scheduled children’s sermons (every other month, see Annual Parish Schedule)
– St Patrick’s Day for children (Sunday March 18, 2018)
– Pascha Egg Hunt (Sunday April 8, 2018)
– Parish Picnic at Freshwater Park (with games!) (Sunday May 13 or 20, 2018 – to be confirmed)
– St John’s Family Camp (in Oregon, organized by St John the Wonderworker Parish in Eugene)(August 2018, to be confirmed)

Other ministries

  • Altar service (for boys and teens and men)
  • Children’s choir (planned)
  • Trail Life (planned)
  • Weekly evening group (Every Thursday 5:45 – 7:45)
  • Summer ‘Bible Camp Week’ (planned)
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