Let us know! Please call the church when you, or someone you love, are facing great challenge, are ill or heading for the hospital, or have surgery scheduled so that we may be present with you in these times of greater need. Your church wants to be able to support you and to pray for you during these times especially.
Sunday School Registration has begun!
Children's Christian Education begins September 7th and we will be using Living the Good News for our classes and Children's Chapel.
ATTENTION PARENTS OF JR. AND SR. HIGH STUDENTS!!! Harvard University announced December 2007 that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families (under $60k) will pay no tuition. Harvard's president Lawrence H. Summers said, 'When only 10 percent of the students in Elite higher education come from families in lower half of the income distribution, we are not doing enough. We are not doing enough in bringing elite higher education to the lower half of the income distribution.' For more details on Harvard’s need-based scholarship system that benefits low and middle income families, visit Harvard's financial aid website at http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/ or call (617) 495-1581.
Flower Ministry: Please note special occasion sign up calendar on the bulletin board on the wall near the water fountain. You may sign up for birthdays, anniversaries, and other meaningful markers of your life or that of those you love. The cost for two Altar flower arrangements will be $52.40. Please contact any member of the Flower Ministry to order.
Parish Christian Educators
Teaching From the Heart
Saturday, August 23
9:00am to 12 noon
Cathedral of St. Philip
...You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children...talk about them...bind them ...fix them...write them...
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (Children's Bible NIV)
The Commission on Education is proud to present, Teaching From the Heart, a diocesan-wide teacher training event for guiding children and youth in your parish education program this year.
Plan to join us on Saturday, August 23rd at the Cathedral of St. Philip.
Check in and refreshments at 9:00 am and we'll begin promptly at 9:30 am. The main program will end at 12 noon.
We are pleased to welcome Tracey Herzer back to Atlanta as our trainer for the day. Formerly the Director of Christian Formation at All Saints, Atlanta, Tracey has spent the last several years as Executive Director of LeaderResources (Workshop Cycles and J2A, among other publications). She is also co-author with Nancy Ann McLaughlin, of Godparenting: Nurturing the Next Generation and is available for consulting work at TraceyHerzer@aol.com.
Areas of interest to teachers will include, but not be limited to:
- The need for Christian education
- The purpose ofchildren's ministry
- Who is the volunteer teacher & what is his or her role in the parish?
- Teaching children to pray
- What do I need to know as a teacher?
- What about children with disabilities?
- How do insure a safe, secure classroom?
- Tell me more about workshop rotation, Montessori, theme based and lectionary curricula...And MORE!
Plus, time for directors to discuss parish-specific plans for their programs with their teachers. Cost for the training is $5.00 per person. A registration brochure is available HERE and can be filled out by individuals or a group from a parish.
Childcare for ages 0-6 years will be available from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon at $5 per child.
LUNCH PLANS TO PURCHASE
A Farmer's Market Lunch outreach program for the Cathedral is planned for that day from 11:30-1:00pmlllOr we can order your group box lunches...Or there is Fellinis' Pizza across the street. More information on lunch plans will be made available soon. If you are interested in staying for lunch and more conversation, Tracey and Linda Scott (Resource Center) will be available to work with you until 1:00pm.
For a registration brochure, click HERE. For other questions, please contact Linda Scott at 404-601-5353 or 800-537-6743 x 155. Email her at Lscott@episcopalatlanta.org.
