RALLY DAY

Church school begins with our New Year's in September Celebration! Our Rally Day program, 'Gather' Round will be September 12 at 9:30 AM in Hendricks Room!. There are a lot of exciting new changes taking place this year, including the following:

• Classroom Open House, our Rally Day program will last from 9:30-10:00. The children will spend 10:00-10:30 going to their classrooms, meeting their teachers and learning about the New Year ahead! Parents are invited to stay for fellowship in Hendricks Room during this time.
• Registration forms will be used this year to help us keep track of our enrollment as well as to make sure that we have the important information necessary while your child is in our care. Please be sure to fill out one of these forms on Rally Day.
• There will be a new fellowship group designed for Parents with Young Children! See Lynda Manz for more information.
• There is a new curriculum f0r the Confirmation Class!

Youth Bell Choir directed by Cindy Golden

Junior Choir directed by Carolyn Santoro

CHURCH COUNCIL ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION, PERSONAL SPIRITUAL LIFE AND COMMITMENT

To celebrate and to mark as a response to a need to increase attendance at church worship, deepen personal spiritual life, and make Confirmation a life-long commitment, Church Council and the Pastor will provide our confirmed youth with the opportunity to choose specific tasks such as

• weeding, overseeing the church banners, care of the window candles, checking to see there are hymnals in the pew racks, taking treats to shut-ins, helping at the soup kitchen and the Service and Project Group, helping in a church school class, providing special music, and many more tasks that will be a service to our congregation.

To teach children and youth to worship by worshiping and to pray by praying, a new part of Christian education will be

• to begin each Church School class with prayer (with guidelines and prayer suggestions provided for the teachers to use),
• have grades 4 through 7 serve as ushers in church on a scheduled basis, and participate (with training) in giving some of the prayers, and receiving the offering . learning and doing the motions that accompany the prayer and offering responses.
• To urge every member to make worship a regular practice, the second Sunday night "Stop and say .Good night. to God" 8:00 PM service will be stressed as the time for anyone who cannot attend on Sunday morning . . . with more Sunday evening opportunities to follow as times for fellowship, to be church family to one another.

CHILD SPONSORSHIP UPDATE

Dear Aunty and Uncle Greetings to you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. How are you? I am fine by the grace of God. How are you doing? We are doing very well. Convey my regards to your friends and relatives. During the December month work our half yearly examination very well. On December 8th we celebrated Christmas in a grand manner. I got ten days holiday, we enjoyed very well. During the Christmas season we went on carol trips to near by villages. On December 25th we celebrated Christmas in a grand manner. We got new dresses, sweets, food gifts. We took part in singing, dance, skits, etc. We really enjoyed very well. On January 1st we celebrated our new year in a grand manner. On January 20th we celebrated our founder's 10th death anniversary in a grand manner. Please pray for me. I end this letter with lots of prayer and love. Thanking you with regards your sponsored child L. Naveen Kumar