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Sunday School 2008-2009


The Sunday School program opens this year with a family event on Saturday September 27, 2008. Please come with your family to Vespers at 4:30pm and join us for a family style spaghetti dinner afterwards. Students and parents will have the chance to meet the teachers and the students will have a special Icon project to work on and take home.   
 

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CHURCH SCHOOL HISTORY

By the 1940’s Saint John’s had established a parish church school for the education of the faithful.  The School originally offered two programs.  A Sunday School  was established to teach the Traditions and Theology of the Orthodox Faith and a Russian School to teach the language and customs of our people.

St. John's Sunday School photos 1962
St. John's Sunday School Group Photo on the steps of the old Church, 1962.
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By the 1960’s the Russian School ceased due to low enrollment but the Sunday School program continued  for many years.  Currently the Sunday School Program has an enrollment of approximately 30 youths and 15 adults.  The Program consists of  3 to 4 classes for the children, established each year  according to the grade levels needed and an adult class that meets for a 3-5 week educational series several times in the course of  a year.  Both the Adult and Children Programs are offered on Sunday mornings at the conclusion of the Liturgy.

In addition to the Educational Program, the Sunday School sponsors  “Summer Camp” at Camp Nazareth in Mercer PA.  Each student who is enrolled in the Sunday School Program and is an active participant in the life of the Church is eligible to attend Summer Camp.  The Sunday School program has been able, through generous donations, to arrange for a week of camping and Charter Bus transportation for its students.  The Program also sponsors a reading Program for adults during the Lenten Periods before the Nativity and Pascha.  Recent books offered have been The Way of A Pilgrim and The Salt of the Earth, both classics of Orthodox spirituality.

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SAINT JOHN’S CHURCH SCHOOL

Curriculum proved through the Orthodox Christian Education Commission


For enrollment and program information, please contact:
 Father Andrew Fetchina 732-382-8844 or
email: FrAndrew@comcast.net

 


 

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