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SPEND QUALITY TIME WITH YOUR CHILD! Take a Sunday morning and attend Sunday School with your child. Have some fun and see what they learn in class. You might even be asked to participate in a lesson or make a craft.
Please sign up in advance so we don’t have too many parents in class at the same time. Sign up sheets are located on the bulletin board in each Sunday School classroom. Take some time to spend with your
child in Sunday School!
Bring a Friend to Church
Everyone is invited to Bring a Friend to Church on Sunday, February 5. Share our wonderful church with your friends, neighbors and relatives. Show them our beautiful Santuary and inspire them with Rev. Tim's wonderful sermons. The children can join the excitement in our Sunday School program. Lets challenge ourselves to lead at least once person into worship on February 5!
SOUPER BOWL Not a typo; just a great mission! Sunday School Teen Issues class will be outside the Sanctuary on Super Bowl Sunday, February 5, for the annual collection of coins to benefit the Soup Kitchen. Please be sure to clean out those spare change areas to help fill our soup pot!
SCOUT SUNDAY
Scout Sunday will be held on February 12. All current Scouts are welcome to attend worship in uniform! If you are an Eagle Scout or earned the highest rank for Girl Scouts (Gold Award, 1st Class, Eaglet for instance) please contact the church office so you can be recognized in the bulletin.
CARING CARDS BY THE SUNDAY SCHOOL Our Sunday School children made cards to be included in a care package that Abby Visel was sending to Afghanistan. Three our our classes particpated and 40 cards were sent overseas. Thank you to your 1st, 2nd and 5ht/6th grade Sunday School classes! Also our 5th/6th Grade class made 20 cards to sent to Alex, a young boy suffering from cancer. Thanks to this class for making a difference and sending some inspirational messages to our friend Alex!
Deep River Spread Your Light for Rice on www.freerice.com.
In November the 5th/6th Grade introduced a way you can fight hunger. Free Rice allows you to participate in computer generated quizzes to earn rice for the World Food Program. And, just like it’s name, it’s free! It only take a little bit of time to make a difference. It’s an excellent way to study up on geography, foreign language, math facts, vocabulary, literature, and chemistry. You work at your own level, and advance as your knowledge expands. It’s a win, win! It takes 2,000 grains of rice to feed one person, so we need your help. And by joining our Deep River Spread Your Light for Rice group, we can keep track of how much food we collectively raise for the world food program.
Sign up today @ www.freerice.com and join our group! Please don't make your user name your real name and those under 18 need to sign up with their parents.
Contact one of our DRCC 5th/6th Graders on how to join our Sunday School group or Sybil @ christianed.drcc@snet.net.
BECOME A FAN OF OUR SUNDAY SCHOOL BY JOINING OUR FACEBOOK PAGE; CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW!
GO GREEN at DRCC Our Sunday School will be heading up DRCC's recycling program. Blue recycling bins have been placed throughout the church, including the narthex, Sunday School classrooms and offices. All paper, including colored, along with catalogs, magazines, cardboard, plastic and tin now go in one container. In the parking lot next to the All Waste trash dumpster, you will see a smaller dumpster marked "Single Stream Recycling" in which we will put our recyclables in. Make sure that NO recyclables go in the large dumpster - that is strictly for trash only! And visa versa - no trash in the single stream recycling dumpster! When having a fundraiser dinner, please recycle all that you can to include pasta & brownie mix boxes, plastics and tins. Bins are located under the sink. Join us and help the church go GREEN ! See Sybil with any questions.
Click here for a complete list of recyclable items.
Help our Sunday School and youth raise $$. Sign up with Escrip! Our Sunday School has signed on with Electronic Scrip Incorporated (ESI), which is a corporation dedicated to providing resources to organizations that support children. eScrip is a fantastic resource for fundraising where participating businesses contribute a percentage of your grocery loyalty cards, credit cards, and debit/ATM card purchases to a group of your choice. Here's How it Works: You register your Adams grocery loyalty card or your debit/credit cards for use in the program. Participating merchants will make contributions to your chosen group, based on purchases made by you, just by using the cards you have registered. Sign up online. ~ It’s quick & easy!
Go to www.escrip.com ~ Click on “sign-up” Follow the instructions; group ID #500018186.
It is completely safe and it doesn't cost you a thing! There are no receipts to collect, no vouchers or certificates to buy, no hassles for you - and every purchase counts! The youth will also be in the fellowship hall on select Sundays with more information and collecting loyalty card numbers!
eScrip is unique -- there is no cost to you!
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SUNDAY SCHOOL OPEN REGISTRATION We always have open registration at DRCC. If you still need to register your child or would like to be part of our Sunday School program, please stop in and see Sybil. Family registration forms are available in her office or on the Sunday School bulletin boards located near the Nellie Prann Room and in the Fellowship Hall. Be sure to pick up children's offering envelopes in the office and the Sunday School Hand-out sheet. All forms are available for downloading below.
SUNDAY SCHOOL COOKBOOKS
Our Sunday School Cookbooks, to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of our church, are still available. There is 515 recipes from our Sunday School families, Sunday School teachers and Church members, including a gluten free section, Martha Beaudoin's sweet treats and of course a kids creation section. They are always available for purchase in Sybil's office or by seeing Kris during the week. We will also be selling in the fellowship hall on select Sundays. Parents, be sure to pick up a copy! Each child in the Sunday School from Nellie Prann Room on up, wrote their name on the back of the section dividers so they would all be part of this keepsake!!
Click on the following documents to obtain more information regarding our Sunday School: Sunday School Family Registration Form - please print double sided
Sunday School Registration Handout Sheet
Parent Handbook - set up for double sided printing
Sunday School Classroom Map
Continuing the efforts of our Sunday School children, we are constantly looking for ways to go green! Feel free to print these documents at home or keep them on your computer for easy reference.
SUNDAY SCHOOL PARENTS TAKE NOTE:
Class Aides The Board of Christian Education implemented a policy to comply with the guidelines of DRCC's Safe Church, which states there needs to be two adults in the classroom at all times. In order to obtain coverage, all parents will be required to sign up for at least two Sundays during the Church year to be a Class Aide. Bring your calendar to registration and select Sundays that work with your schedule. If it turns out you can't be there on a Sunday that you signed up for, you may switch with another parent or ask a member of our congregation to fill in for you.
We also encourage all members of our congregation to be involved in our Sunday School by volunteering a Sunday or two in the class of your choice!
Room Partners Room Partners will be responsible for sending out monthly e-mail reminders to Class Aides of their upcoming week and to send out "MissYou" cards to those children who have been absent for more than three weeks in a row. Postcards and stamps will be provided.
Teen Issues We are very proud to offer classes for high school age youth at our church. This class focuses on current topics and issues facing teenagers today in a relaxed atmosphere. They also work on mission projects and activities of their choice, which are decided upon and carried out as a group. This class meets every Sunday at 10:15 am in the Upper Room with Nancy Peluso, Andrea Chiappa and Ashley Campbell as your teachers.
Youth Music Programs Our Sunday School children are encouraged to take part in our Church music programs. Jr. Choir meets directly after worship on Sunday in the Sanctuary for practice. The Jr. Bell Choir meets on Sunday mornings before Sunday School. Stop by and check these programs out. Contact Annetta Sekula, Church organist, regarding Jr. Choir and Claudia Hardy regarding the Jr. Bells.
Youth Communion Service
Youth Communion Services will take place at 10:00 am on the first Sunday of the month in the Upper Fellowship Hall. Music, readings and partaking of the elements are all part of this 15 minute service done largely in part by the youth of our Church. This service is for the 5th through 12th grade and the teachers of our Sunday School. The 4th grade class will join us after they receive their First Communion on Maundy Thursday.
Confirmation Class Confirmation is the process of preparing for membership in our Church as an adult, as well as the completion of a process begun for many when they were baptized. As part of that promise made by their parents, children attend Sunday School and learn about God’s presence. Confirmation gives young adults the opportunity to accept those promises for themselves. We open Confirmation to those in 9th grade and older, to learn about the Church of which they are a part of and to talk about the ideas and realities that will affect their whole life. Classes start in September and Confirmands will be able to pick a mentor of their choice. See our Confirmation Class web page for more information.
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