SUNDAY SCHOOL AND CONFIRMATION CLASS PHOTOS

We are back in full swing with our Christian education program. Below are pictures of the students. Our Savior’s offers camp scholarships to young people who attend Sunday school or confirmation classes consistently throughout the year. If you know of any kids who aren’t part of a Christian class, please invite them to ours. We meet each Sunday at 10 a.m. during the school year.

The whole group at the opening session of singing in the sanctuary

The Sunshine class taught by Melanie Wittman

The Celebration class taught by Dr. Mike Schweitzer

The confirmation class taught by Pastor Laura

SUNDAY SCHOOL IS UNDERWAY

Sunday, September 11, was Rally Day—the official kick-off for Our Savior's Christian Education program. During worship, the teachers were installed and everyone remembered their Baptisms in a special liturgy.

Dr. Mike Schweitzer is the teacher of the Celebration Class
(second through sixth grade)

 Carla Pleasants is the Confirmation Class teacher

 Vern and Kim Timmerman are the teachers of the Sunshine Class 

(preschool through first grade)

 The adult Bible study group 

Emilo Rathbun (above) is standing by the new attendance chart for the Celebration Class. Our Savior's Lutheran offers camp scholarships to all students who attend Sunday school regularly throughout the year. Emilio was one of the scholarship winners this past summer and so he enjoyed a week at Sugar Creek Bible Camp in Ferryville, Wisconsin.

Over the summer, the Sunday school area was refurbished with new ceramic floor tiling. The kids love the new space, which is also decorated with banners painted by the Sunday school a few years ago.

We pray that this will be another wonderful school year of learning and growing in faith, hope and love!

GEARING UP FOR RALLY DAY

It is Sunday school time at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church and we hope you and your children will join us for a lively year of learning. Sunday, September 13 is Rally Day—the kick off of our Christian education program. There will be an installation of our teachers in worship at 9:00 a.m. The classes will then begin at 10:00 a.m. They will continue to meet each Sunday until Christmas break, then resume again until the end of the school year.

Sunday school is an important way that our church community can help support the faith development of all it’s members. Each week, kids learn about God’s love for them through the Bible’s many stories. They make connections between the Bible and their own lives in a fun learning environment. Over the summer, the young people were given Spark Bibles or Spark Story Bibles, depending upon their age. If you child hasn’t gotten one yet, we’ll see to it that he or she gets one this fall.

As an incentive to get and keep kids involved in this program, we offer a free week at a Lutheran Bible camp to students who attend 20 Sunday school classes or more. This is approximately a $300 value. We are excited to make this opportunity available for our students. The on-camp programs at Sugar Creek Bible Camp in Ferryville, Wisconsin and Camp EWALU in Strawberry Point, Iowa are for students who have completed the 3rd grade through 12th grade.

We also produce a Christmas program each year in December, which features the Sunday school children. This is a special treat for our congregation. It makes the Christmas story come alive in a wonderful way.

This year, we’ll begin each Sunday school hour by meeting in the church sanctuary for a group singing session. We’ll also be collecting Sunday school offering for a special project. We are excited to announce that we have enough students to break into several age classes in our newly refurbished basement learning center. They include:


The Sunshine Class—for kids 3 years old through Kindergarten taught by Mike Schweitzer

The Celebration Class—for kids first grade through fourth taught by Susan Finley and Lisa Rethwisch

The Cool Kids Class—for those in fifth and sixth grade taught by Carla Pleasants and Wendy Morris

The Confirmation Class—for seventh grade and older taught by Jamie Horkheimer (on Sunday mornings) and Pastor Laura (for extended classes which meet monthly)

Meanwhile, the confirmed teenagers and adults meet upstairs for Bible study.

Would you be interested in helping? If you’d like to be an adult volunteer, please contact Mary Schweitzer at 538-4710. We look forward to a great year!