20 days and counting

It’s Rally Sunday! Today there will be a whole team of adults – staff, parents, and young people – ready to welcome our children as they come to Sunday School. The behind-the-scenes work that is done to get ready for this day is tremendous! It’s quite a bit different than it was when the congregation was organized! Back then, as the 1948 history puts it, “Some of the farm families would have to drive to church with horses during the winter months and they enduring much suffering to get their children to Sunday School and services on cold winter mornings. Many times they had to sit through the services with their wraps, overcoats, and overshoes on to keep warm.” Wow! As we come together here, we say “Thanks be to God!” for all of the people who made it possible for us to be here today!

Prayer
Almighty God, with a mother’s love and a father’s care you have blessed us with the joy and responsibility of raising the children of our church to grow as your disciples. As we encourage them in the faith, give us wisdom and inspiration. Bless all of our Sunday School teachers, staff, leaders, assistants, and parents, that the mind of Jesus Christ might be formed in all of us, whom you have claimed to be your disciples today. Amen.