PhilippianPix

September 28, 2007

Things are ALWAYS happening around St. Philip’s. 
Here's just a sampling of some of what you might have missed.

Downstairs in the Sunday School classroom wing, they take their stories very literally. Early in the fall, most classes start with Creation and move on through the Bible. And when they hear, “Let there be light” they want their LIGHT. And not just any light, but also the light in the ladies’ restroom! (And they are very grateful to the Buildings Committee who make the time to make that light happen!)

And a chance for all to participate in the PhilippianPix: this interactive unit is called, “Who Can Find a Home for the Bibles?” In a de-cluttering operation, these Good News for Modern Man Bibles were found all over the downstairs classrooms. They are rarely used, as the teachers have fairly specific needs for certain translations. Mostly hardbacks, they cannot be used for the prison ministry (we tried that already). If you know of a place that can use these Bibles, could you please contact the E-pistle editor? (e_pistle@citcom.net)

St. Phillippians fifth grade and lower use Godly Play during Sunday School. A Montessori-based program, each lesson uses manipulatives for the lesson of the day. These pictures show off two of our loveliest story materials. In the first picture, our storyteller Anne helps Max with the “Synagogue and the Upper Room,” which combines the story of Jesus when He says, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing” and the story of the Last Supper in the Upper Room. The two pieces then fit together to form a cruciform church.

The second picture shows the older children hearing the newest story for the first time. “Setting the Table” has child-sized parts to the altar and credence table for the children to work with, including the linens as well, so that they can learn the “special names for a special Feast.”