IT’S ELEMENTARY!IT’S ELEMENTARY!Elementary Ministry @ EPC

Think back to when youThink back to when youwere in early Elementary were in early Elementary

schoolschoolNews memories for me: Watergate, Jimmy Carter, Iran hostage crises, lines at the gas pump

TV/Movies: Cable not as widespread, choices were limited! Charlie’s Angels, Emergency!, Donny and Marie, Batman and Brady Bunch reruns, Schoolhouse Rock, Bugs Bunny, Disney on Sunday nights...STAR WARS and JAWS

classroom dynamics, spending the night at a friend’s house for the first time, cub scouts, schoolwork got noticeably harder from 1st through third grade, permanent teeth coming in; wearing lots of plaid and corduroy

What kinds of prayers, creeds, or liturgies did

you learn in early elementary school?

What Bible stories do you remember the

most from that time?

What “church” experiences do you

remember most from that time?

What’s Happening Today @ What’s Happening Today @ EPCEPC

Young children experience faith through the loving and caring hands of people in the church.

Elementary children grow in faith through a style called affiliative. They learn about faith as they come to know what it means to belong to a faith community, as they hear and read biblical stories, and as they watch their congregation live out its faith in the community.

1stCatherine Theus Elizabeth Helmboldt Stephanie MoodJennifer Seigler Lesley Stone 2ndNicole MorrisDanielle Dixon Kelli MontgomerySusan PorterAmy Hill Ellen Burden 

3rdElizabethAnn CarrollShelley DempseySheila MimsAmy Rivers Shannon McCutchenGail Searcy SUBS: Alysia Ketchum 4thMarne JenkinsEliza Hudson  Jenna Burke Emily BurnsDolores Long Blair Morris 

5th gradeMargaret SmolkaElizabeth Abramson Caroline BennettJoy BetheaSub: Annie Tapp Scott 

Linear Progression Old Testament New Testament

1st Grade Sacrament WorkshopsSeptember 29th and October 6th

2nd Grade Worship DiscoveryJanuary through March

4th/5th grader and parent weekend mission trip in September

5th grade “Class Creed” in the Spring

Sundays @5 Quarry Groups this Fall

Making a Home for Faith: Nurturing the Spiritual Life of Your Children, Pilgrim Press, 2007.

Real Kids, Real Faith: Practices for Nurturing Children's Spiritual Lives

Spark Story BibleThe Rhyme Bible Story Book

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