Sunday School

Sunday school meets every Sunday morning starting on the third week of September and running through the second week of June from 10:00 a.m. until 10:50 a.m. We then join our families upstairs for Holy Communion.
 
The elementary department of Sunday school has fifteen children who come on a regular basis. This does not include our nursery or occasional attendees. Melissa Lopat teaches the preschoolers. Della Harris and Maria Matthews teach grades K-2. Jerry and Alison Mohr teach grades 3 & 4. We also have a few very dependable substitute teachers in Lois Tripp, Sue Gunn and Sharon Taube.

Over the summer, the teachers created a new children's service, which we use downstairs. The new service is a combination of some older services that we have used in the past, as well as newly added material, which comes mostly from the Book of Common Prayer. We wanted the service to reflect the look and feel of the service upstairs.

In addition to our regular curriculum and children's services, we have kept very busy with parties, performances, camp and outreach projects. We have parties to celebrate Easter, the end of the Sunday school year, the fall harvest and Christmas/Epiphany. The children make crafts, play games and enjoy treats and gifts. This year our children have preformed throughout the year singing, playing chimes, and by telling poems and jokes. Five of our third and fourth graders went to Sleep-A-Way camp in Dunkirk this summer. They really enjoyed camp and walked away with a renewed and transformed relationship with the Spirit. Children collected money in their mite boxes to donate to the Buffalo Zoo for the elephant house project, collected school supplies for Windemere Elementary School and with the help of the church, collected money to purchase many life sustaining animals for people around the world through the Episcopal Relief and Development Fund.

With the help of Pastor Barbara, we have also had two very successful adult/children sermons upstairs with follow-up activities downstairs. We had one to celebrate St. Francis day complete with the blessing of our real and stuffed animals. The other one was for Thanksgiving. We will continue this new tradition this year.

The Sunday school is responsible for the bulletin board in the undercroft. Our teachers took turns making the attractive displays, usually reflecting the church seasons. Janet Guarino, has also helped us greatly with this project.

Lastly, if you haven't already done so, please look in our classrooms. Through monies in the Meath Memorial, we were able to repaint the classrooms, purchase rugs, furniture and children's Bibles. Our preschool room has a beautiful mural painted by Maria Sanchez-Clarke. Look for more murals to come!

We are very blessed to have a wonderful Sunday school program. Our children and teachers are great. We would like to thank all of the people from St. Peter's for their support.
 
Please email or call Alison Mohr with any questions. (jrm1912@msn.com 834-8466) We would love to have your children join us!