First Day Back to Sunday School

Every few years, our church researches the possibility, or the feasibility, or interest in, having Sunday School during the summer months.  Thus far, it really has never been successful, at least since I've lived in Marysville.  A year or two back we did try to at least offer a type of children's choir for a four-week period, and it worked pretty well.  Attendance is obviously way down by the children, but adults are also very reluctant to take on the responsibility of overseeing or being in charge of anything ongoing in the summer.  I am not opposed to it, yes, I would support it, but I teach Sunday School during the school year, and really enjoy it, and the other teachers need a break, and I just don't think I want to be the 'martyr' and take it over for the other three months of the year. 

I hope that perhaps some year we will think of something, come up with something , have someone have an epiphany or something, and be able to offer something 'appealing' and drawing to the kids for the summer.

But, as it remains, we begin Sunday School in the fall usually the Sunday following Labor Day. This year is no different.  We did not, however, have a balloon lift last year and it was nice to see again. It's a pretty activity; the balloons look nice as the kids are holding them and then letting them go and watching them lift up to the sky.  We need to have some type of explanation of what we are doing, however, when we let the balloons go; I don't think I really know what our goal is or why we do it. I would like to think that it is something more than just being pretty...:)

Here are a few photos of the balloon liftoff after our first day of Sunday School for the 2010-11 year. 

I have taken over creating the bulletin board that is by the front door of the church.  I've been doing it for a couple of years now.  It became the duty of the Board of Christian Education, and I got/took the assignment. I don't know what they had in mind when they gave it to us; it had in the past just kinda had a poster or such stapled to it.  I sometimes wonder if I go a little overboard given the solemness of a majority of our members, but I enjoy it, and I like to 'dress it up' a bit...needless to say.  I've received a lot of compliments, actually, on this bulletin board since it went up, so that's good to hear.