Breakfast for the Homeless

Money Talks

This coming Sunday, November 3, is another session of our First Class Sundays!

RPC's Director of Commitment, Jody Andrade, and RPC member, Joe Hovorka, will be talking about how we teach our children about money in a way that encourages good stewardship as well as generosity. There will be many practical ideas to help children learn to save, set up a budget, and other important life skills.

Spooktacular Night

Next week, Wednesday October 30, onCore and WEF will join together for.... 

WEF adults will bring in cans that our 3&4 year olds will “trick or treat” for, while the K-3rd graders prepare bags of beans and rice, all going to North Fulton Community Charities for the holiday season.

NFCC's current needs are:

Cereal & Oatmeal 

Meals in a can (ravioli, beef stew, chili, beef-a-roni, etc) 

Canned fruit and veggies (NO green beans or corn )  

Peanut butter and jelly (NO glass containers) 

Meals in boxes (hamburger helper, tuna helper, etc) 

Tomato products & pasta sauce (but NO pasta) 

Canned soup (non-cream based)

Baking items (cake mix, brownie mix, muffin mix, flour, sugar, etc) 

Canned tuna & meats

See you tonight for Pajama Night!

World Communion Sunday

Parents of Elementary Children!

This letter is to let you know about all of the special things happening at RPC this coming

Sunday, October 6, to celebrate World Communion Sunday.

The 1st-5th grade elementary Sunday school classes (kindergarten had their lesson last Sunday) will be doing a special lesson about Communion education. They will learn about the meaning, symbolism and importance of Communion and what the Presbyterian Church(USA) believes about this sacrament.

The younger elementary grades (1st-3rd) will be practicing Communion with crackers—we will provide a gluten free option, but you or your child will need to tell the teacher that they need that option. The older grades (4th and 5th) will be doing an activity

involving raw bread dough—we will NOT be able to provide a gluten free dough

alternative. The older children will not be eating their bread, just creating and molding the dough. If your child has a contact or airborne gluten allergy, please let us know.

Reverend Slocum will be leading the second session of our new series for parents, First Class Sundays. “Come to the Table” will help parents learn what it means to participate in the sacrament of Communion, what Presbyterians believe about the Lord’s Supper and how it is different than other churches. This class will meet in the Fellowship Hall during the Sunday school hour.

We are so looking forward to this special lesson because it will be a morning devoted to recognizing the universalism of Christianity and Communion. In Sunday school and worship we will be celebrating Christians all over the world. During 11:15 worship, elementary children will be helping to carry in the bread for Communion and we will have breads from all over the country. This is truly a very special celebration at Roswell Presbyterian Church and around the world. Please let me know if you have any questions, or need to inform us of your child’s allergy to anything we will use on Sunday morning.

Sarah Kate DeWyngaert

Director  of Children’s Ministry

Roswell Presbyterian Church

sarahkate@roswellpres.org

Direct Line: 770-649-4507

Sunday, October 6.
The topic is "Come to the Table."
9:45 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall

On World Communion Sunday come learn about what it means to participate in the sacrament of Communion. What do Presbyterians believe about the Lord's Supper and how is it different than other churches? How do we talk to our kids about what is happening in the sacrament.

Also, why do we worship the way we do at RPC? Learn about how we are hoping to expand worship to better include children and families.

First Class Sundays is an open forum for parents, grandparents, and those involved in the life of children and students. You will learn about today's hot topics. Normally scheduled for the first Sunday of the month at 9:45 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall.

For more information, contact Rev. Lyndsay Slocum, lyndsay@roswellpres.org, 770-649-4519.

Don't miss the

Community Fall Fest

TODAY! 

4-7p.m on the grounds of RPC!

Food, music, games and fun

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Worship Education Graduation

Thank you so much to the families that participated in our Kindergarten Worship Education series this month! We had such a wonderful group for this entire series and especially yesterday for our celebration in worship. All of Roswell Presbyterian Church is proud of these children and their families for valuing the importance of their child knowing and understanding worship in ‘big church’. We hope this will be the continuing (or beginning!) of a strong relationship with God and a desire to further their faith journey through worship. Each kindergartener received their own worship bag as a celebration of their completion. We are encouraging the kids to fill them with items, like the ones we provide in the RPC worship bags, that will help them understand and learn in worship.

Yesterday was such a wonderful day for the kindergarten families for their special graduation, but also because both parents and children got to partake in the sacraments portion of the series together. We listened to the book, 

Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge

and talked about how special symbols and items help us remember things that we don’t think about every day. Out of Play Doh, the kids molded items that help them remember other things and talked with their families about those special memories. We talked about how the water and bread and juice help us remember how much Christ loves us and sacrificed for us. Families also got to practice taking traditional communion by passing the communion trays to each other and taking cups.

Talk at home about...

1. Your own baptism and your child’s. 

Tell them who came to see it, who helped with the baptism, and what you all did to celebrate.

If you and/or your child is not baptized, talk about why you’ve made that decision and talk to them about their own desire to be baptized.

*Important Information*

This coming Sunday, October 6, will be the kindergartener's first Sunday in G.P.S., our fun time of music, fellowship and lesson introductions.

Kindergarteners will still be dropped off in their Sunday school classrooms on October 6. Their teachers will bring them down to the Gym to join us the rest of the younger elementary children. Beginning October 13, and for the rest of the year, kindergarteners will be dropped-off in the Gym for Sunday school.

Types of Prayer

Yesterday the kindergartners learned about the different types of prayer that we say in ‘big church’. They located all of the times we say a prayer in worship by circling them in the church bulletin. They talked about the different times they pray at home and how sometimes when we pray for something and it doesn't happen, that doesn't mean God didn't listen to our prayer, it just means that God knows what we need better than we do, and just like our parents don’t give us everything we want, neither does God. A lot of the time, we just have to wait and see how God is going to answer our prayers because it can sometimes take a while!

 

They also learned about 5 different kinds of prayer that we say in worship:

Praise (You are awesome, God!)

Thanks (Thank you, God!)

Confession (God, I’m sorry)

Help for me (Comfort me, God)

Help for others (Comfort them, God)

 

They made prayer chains which you can do together at home!

Assign a color to each type of prayer; this is what our colors were in Sunday school:

Praise – red

Thanks – yellow

Confession – orange

Help for me – blue

Help for others – green

Cut strips of these colors of paper. Loop them together and staple or tape to make a chain. Each day, at bed time, dinner time, etc. Have your child rip off a strip and say a prayer that corresponds to the color/type of prayer.

They could also write down their prayer and tape it back into a chain!

 

Talk at home about...

1. Why is it important to us to pray?

2. Why do we tell God when we’re sorry? How do we know God forgives us?

 

Next week we’re learning about the Sacraments; baptism and communion.

 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION!

September 29, is the last session of the Kindergarten Worship Education series! It is going to be a big day for our kindergartners as they will be celebrated in 11:15 worship. Parents will drop-off children in their classroom as usual and join Rev. Slocum in the Fellowship Hall for the kindergarten parent class. The children will go with their class into 9:45 worship to see a baptism, and will then meet their parents in the Fellowship Hall for the remainder of the Sunday school hour. The rest of that Sunday school hour parents and children will do the lesson together.

Parents need to make sure to come to the Fellowship Hall after they drop-off their child; otherwise please make arrangements for your kindergartner to sit with and complete the lesson with another adult in there.

 

Kindergartners will stay with us in the Fellowship Hall because we will take them up to the sanctuary to get ready for their procession into worship. After they process in they can sit with their families for the rest of the service. If they are in the creation choir, they will stay on the steps to sing. They will be recognized later in the service.

We really hope your entire family will remain in worship for the 11:15 service as this is the beginning of your emphasis to your child that worship is important! However, if you have to leave the service early, please try to sit on the outside of the rows and exit down the side aisles, as it is a distraction to our worship leaders to have people leaving through the center aisle once worship has started.

We are very proud of our all of our kindergartners!

Completely Unsolicited Advice

Here is a great article that was shared by one of our Children's Ministry elders, Tricia Patterson, about faith and children.

Completely Unsolicited Advice to Parents