St Michael's Parish
Litchfield, Connecticut
St M's Camp 2008
Boys and Girls, join us for camp this year and help design and make a 5 foot round stained glass Rose Window! Our window will hang on display in the sanctuary beginning in September until just before Advent!
The tuition for camp this year is $ 75.00 per camper
Scholarships are available, please see Mother Jenni
Forms will be available at the church office or from me in church school, starting on the first Sunday of June. You can now also download a pdf version of the registration form - simply click on this link!
St. Michael's News From the Undercroft
Greetings
Happy summer !!! June is always a fun filled month for our Church Schoolers. We will start the month off with a bang by hosting our 8th annual Ice Cream Sunday on June 1st after the 10:00 service. Come get all sugared up at coffee hour and run around with the kids !!!
St. M’s Camp week runs from June 23rd to June 27th. All children and youth are welcome to join us ! This year’s camp theme is, The Hands of God. We will be designing a stained glass rose window on this theme and examining our roles as God’s hands and hearts in the world. The fee for camp is $ 75.00 per camper and scholarships are available. (please see Mother Jenni) Sign up may be done through Denise in the office, 567-9465.
We have enjoyed another wonder-filled academic year. A group of our youngest members have “moved up” from crèche care and we now have a lively, quite young, critical mass of children in our church school program.
As we begin to consider the program for next fall, it is clear to me that a number of our regular events will be different. We do not currently have many kids in the upper elementary grades, nor do we have many middle school and high schoolers still actively participating at church. We will need to rethink how we do our beloved pageants and our larger outreach program.
What strikes me plainly is that an intergenerational approach is what is needed. So please consider this as a casting call. Calling all puppeteers, and all outreach volunteers to step up to the plate next year and work shoulder to shoulder ( or is that elbow to shoulder ??!!) with our youngest parishioners.
The Montessori method of teaching is based largely on the interaction between folks of different ages. Olders are expected to help the younger and the youngers help the youngest. It is an age old method, and it works so well. One of the best dividends is the development of relationships between children and adults, relationships of friendship, mutual respect and common goals.
As I consider the questions being discussed in our parish meetings these last weeks, it seems quite apt that we rethink the future in the light of some wisdom given to us by Maria Montessori: “We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.”
God is one in three, a loving mystery, Creator, Christ and Spirit too, close to us in all we do. ( from our own church school prayers)
Cheers,
Dana Rohn, Youth Minister
