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From Ashes to Easter: Lent and Easter Resources for Children’s Ministry
The booklet, Lent and Easter Ideas for Children, includes directions for making Resurrection Rolls and Resurrection Eggs as well as other activities.
This Lenten calendar has daily activities for children and their families.
Here are instructions for making crosses from palms and some other cross crafts.
This is a good article about explaining Holy Week to children.
There are several versions of the legend of the dogwood.
Two companies that sell inexpensive calendars for Lent, seasonal family devotions, handouts, etc. are:
Creative Communications for the Parish
1-800-325-9414
Christian Tools of Affirmation
1-888-285-3598
New Book Review from our FaithReads Blog
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Creative Ways to Energize Your Sunday School Websites
Article from Children’s Ministry Magazine “Easy Classroom Transformations”
Article: How to turn your classroom into an Egyptian or Hebrew village
Bulletin Board Websites
http://www.apostolicfaith.org/Library/SundaySchool/BulletinBoardIdeas.aspx
- Photos of bulletin boards are listed in three categories: holidays, seasonal, and themes.
http://www.boardsgalore.com/
- Individuals post photos of bulletin boards. There are hundreds of photos on this site as well as a chat box for exchanging ideas and asking questions.
http://www.teacherhelp.org/bulletin.htm#church
- The Resources for Christian Teachers websites has links to many other sites with ideas for bulletin boards, calendars, murals, door decorations, borders, birthday displays, and other room decorations.
http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/classmanagement/bulletinboards.html
- This website is not church-related but has excellent and creative ideas for background materials and borders.
Sunday School Decorations and Supplies
http://www.christianedwarehouse.com/cep/Category.cfm?&DID=6&CATID=19
http://www.orientaltrading.com/party-themes-and-events/sunday-school/vbs/party-decorations-a1-388626+1255-2-1-TmU9OTAwMDAmTj0zODg2MjYgMTI1NQ==.fltr
- Oriental Trading Party Decorations
http://www.rinovelty.com/
New Book Review from our Faith Reads Blog
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Sunday School Tune-Up Recommended Websites
The Building Faith website is maintained by Church Publishing Incorporated to be an on-line community for Christian education and faith formation leaders. They have wonderful resources which can be downloaded to use separately or as part of a Christian Education Handbook. Included are:
Lifeway Publishing has an excellent article called Resource Rescue! Help in Organizing Children’s Resources which suggests ways of organizing your resources and building storage units.
Here are links to samples of Sunday School Registration Forms:
It’s a good idea to send a welcoming letter to the parents of your students before Sunday school starts. Here are some sample letters:
You might consider using this Backpack Blessings litany for the first day of Sunday school.
The article “Hats off to the Sunday School Superintendent” from the Lutheran Church ELCA talks about the responsibilities of superintendents, the role of parents, evaluating your Sunday school, planning and communication, and more.
Download a summary of the New Curriculum for Sunday School and Confirmation word doc PDF
Download a complete list of available Confirmation curriculum.
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A Year of Spiritual Practice
Journaling
Journaling:
Create your own
sacred writings from the Women of the ELCA
For Writers
Do you read Christian fiction? Do you think you have a faith-driven book inside of you? Informal free Christian writing group forming for Western Suffolk/Eastern Nassau. Possible genres are devotionals, faith-based fiction (young adult, contemporary or historical / romance / suspense / women's fiction, anthologies, etc.) Meetings will occur once or twice a month, evenings or Saturdays. Contact Beth G. at (631) 559-4650 or email ChristianWriterLI@gmail.com. The meeting place will rotate but the first meeting will be at Panera Bread in Bohemia.
Stewardship
This is an interesting Horizons Newsletter "Go fix the Problem" from J Clif Christopher for Pastors who are moving to a new church. Also interesting reading if you are not moving.
This article referenced in a Pastor's newsletter that made me think more about the commitment made between a church and members of the congregation. This relationship is an important part of a person’s decision to support their church.
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