Fall 2012

Now that fall in Roswell, GA is fully underway we have so many new and fun things happening here at RPC! 

Last week we had our community Fall Fest which was a huge success. Church members and tons of people from the community came out to have their hair dyed crazy colors, climb the rock wall, eat hot dogs, and try their hand at the dunk tank. 

 

This past Sunday, October 7th, was World Communion Sunday. Each of our 1st-5th grade Sunday school classes did a special lesson on the meaning of the sacrament of communion and practiced communion etiquette for worship. In Kidz Prayz the children were read the story, Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge. 

This story presented the idea that sometimes our memories can fade so we use items to help us remember those special things. This is why we use the bread and juice every month in worship for communion, so we can remember Christ's love for us and how he gave his body and blood so that we may live eternally with God.

 

The 4th and 5th grade classes got to do a special activity in which they made dough in their classes and molded their dough into shapes that they felt represented the love of Christ in having given his life for all of us. They each took a piece of dough home to bake. 

Questions to ask your children at home to help them understand communion:

What do the bread and juice in communion represent?
What happened at the last supper?
What does it mean when we take communion by intinction?
As Presbyterians, who do we believe is allowed to take communion?

Communion isn't meant to satisfy our hunger, it is meant to satisfy our spiritual need for Christ in our lives.

If your child(ren) participated in the communion class on World Communion Sunday, how have you see their understanding of communion or appreciation of Christ shine through since then? 

Comment to let us all know!