April 22 is Earth Day. Sunday School children at St. Mark Lutheran Church will celebrate Earth Day this year by planting plant starts and seeds for a variety of herbs. The herb garden will be in a 8’ x’8’ raised bed that is part of St. Mark’s Community Garden. A three-quarters wine barrel has recently…
A Place of Grace
Sunday School (Page 4)
Find an activity that you would like to lead or assist with for one Sunday and sign up on the paper copy in the narthex. We’ll provide lesson plans for you from the Spark curriculum, or if you have an idea of something you’d like to do but aren’t sure where it might fit in,…
St. Mark Sunday School children are mid-way through their study of the Lord’s Prayer. We are learning the story and meaning of this prayer from many different angles, enjoying everything from games, singing and chanting, to making picture books, and having fun with food in the kitchen. We’re working on getting the prayer memorized, and…
Sunday school has had a great time during the Advent season. Our big project was the “Live Nativity” presented during the Family 4:00 pm service on Christmas Eve. We will finish up our last Advent lesson for the rotational Sunday school on January 8 and then move to our series, “The Lord’s Prayer.” We are…
The Sunday School kids from preschool through 6th grade have had a great time this fall learning Bible lessons in new and fun ways through the Spark curriculum. We’ve completed units on “The Sower” and “The Creation Story”. Thanks to all of you in the congregation who have volunteered your time and talents to helping the…
As part of the new Sunday School format, on October 30, Amy B led the 1st-6th graders through a lesson on “Music and Creation”. To represent each of the days of Creation, Amy chose 2-3 songs on her laptop for the kids to listen to. After Amy read the description of the day from the Bible, and they…
Gail and Mary were the teachers Sunday the 25th, and the children spent the Sunday School hour in the garden. We talked about The Parable of the Sower and how it applied to our own Community Garden. We talked about what it takes to grow strong plants, and then asked each child to find a…