First UCC Richmond

Sunday School News

Welcome Back to the 2017-2018

Sunday School Year!

We are excited to announce the theme for our SHINE Curriculum this Fall: "Being God's People". The first half of the year will focus on Psalms, Acts, Timothy and Philippians, the Old Testament. We will be celebrating worshiping together, community as a part of church life, music and prayer. Moving forward, the next section with focus on the First Families in Genesis. How amazing!! The new testament comes to us with stories of God, Noah, Abram and Sarai, Issac, Jacob and Joseph. During the month of Advent we plan to focus on special Advent activities.

At this time, formal Sunday school will be the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the Month. The first Sunday of each month (Communion Sunday), the children will attend worship with their parents as in the past. The third Sunday, we will have something new for worship, a Children's Bulletin and activities that follow Pastor Denise's worship. It's going to be a great year. Hope to see your there!!

Looking for Sunday School Volunteers

We are hoping to add more Adults to our Sunday school Team. At this time, we are only able to hold Sunday school twice a month, with worship activities the other two Sundays.
The curriculum is amazing and very easy to follow with wonderful activities and bible
stories to implement easily. So please find it in your heart to enjoy some time with our young ones, you never know what they might teach you!! The commitment is only for once a month.
Please let Jennifer Northam (586-727-5176) or Rose Crowley (810-599-4498) know if you are interested.

Noisy Offering Mission Project 

The Sunday school voted and chose Heifer International as their mission project this year!  The first Sunday of the month a noisy offering will be taken during service to be put toward the mission. Heifer International's mission is to work with communities to end world hunger and poverty and to care for the Earth. 

Dan West was a farmer from the American Midwest and member of the Church of the Brethren who went to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War as an aid worker. His mission was to provide relief, but he soon discovered the meager single cup of milk rationed to the weary refugees once a day was not enough. And then he had a thought: What if they had not a cup, but a cow? That "teach a man to fish" philosophy is what drove West to found Heifer International. And now, nearly 70 years later, that philosophy still inspires our work to end world hunger and poverty throughout the world once and for all. 

HOW IT WORKS: 

We empower families to turn hunger and poverty into hope and prosperity – but our approach is more than just giving them a handout. Heifer links communities and helps bring sustainable agriculture and commerce to areas with a long history of poverty. Our animals provide partners with both food and reliable income as agricultural products such as milk, eggs and honey can be traded or sold at market. When many families gain this new sustainable income, it brings new opportunities for building schools, creating agricultural cooperatives, forming community savings and funding small businesses. 

The core of our model is Passing on the Gift. This means families share the training they receive, and pass on the first female offspring of their livestock to another family. This extends the impact of the original gift, allowing a once impoverished family to become donors and full participants in improving their communities. 

The goal of every Heifer project is to help families achieve self-reliance. We do this by providing them the tools they need to sustain themselves, and it's thanks to the generosity of donors like you. You have the power to give a hungry family the training it takes to feed themselves and their children; to give a young girl a chance at an education; to empower a woman to have a voice in her community. Together, we can change the world, one family, one community, at a time. And it all starts with a gift. Thank you for your generous donations to the Noisy Offering. 

2017 - 2018 Church School Schedule