Sunday School

 Saint Paraskevi Sunday School  

 

Click here for Sunday School Registration Form

We will continue to have Open Enrollment

The Saint Paraskevi Sunday School provides religious education and an Eastern Orthodox Christian foundation for the youth of the community. Classes are available for children Pre-Kindergarten through High School, Grade 12. The education provided by the Sunday School enables children to learn and grow in the Orthodox faith, while practicing the faith in a dynamic environment where the student’s relationship with God can grow. Our program encourages life-long membership in the Church community, which is the body of Christ. Our teachers use various methods and resources to create a classroom full of enthusiasm for learning, while maintaining the suggested curriculum of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

Sunday School families are encouraged to arrive for the Divine Liturgy on Sunday promptly at 9:45 a.m.  Our Sunday School classes begin every week following Holy Communion.  Class time is approximately 45 minutes.

Please note, students will be sitting in church with their families and will be able to receive Holy Communion first, to proceed to their classrooms and begin their Sunday School classes.

 

IMPORTANT: ALL CLASSES CONCLUDE AT 12 Noon. Parents of Pre- K to Grade 4 students may pick up their children from their classrooms.  Parents of all other students (Grades 5-12) can wait for their children in the Community Center where there is Coffee hour.

New this year! Stay, Pray, Sing  and Play

Early Pre-School Sunday School Class for 2 & 3 year old children

This early pre-school Sunday School class meets at the same time as the Sunday School classes (see Calendar below), following Holy Communion until approximately 12 noon. The class is for a parent (or grandparent) to join their  child  with other parents and children to learn about going to church, praying,  singing songs from “Since God Loves You and You Know it Sing Out Loud”( Go to www.SinceGodLovesYou.com), reading Bible stories and coloring/crafting.  Note: One adult per child must participate. Lead parents needed.  Contact Flo Ioannou at fioannou@optonline.net for more information or Register Online. 

 

Our Sunday School classes and teachers this year are as follows:

Early Pre-K (2 & 3 year old’s) -Maria Kourounis (Lead Parent)

Pre-K and Kindergarten – Lisa Schiede and Eleni Triantafillou

Grades 1 and 2- Nick and Karen Kontos

Grade 3 and 4- Cally Schickler and Niki Kritikos

Grade 5 and 6 – Kathy Demacopoulos and Elizabeth Essopos

Grades 7 and 8- Christopher Triantafillou

Grade 9, 10, 11 and 12- George Demacopoulos

 

Sunday School teachers and other volunteers are always needed.

To VOLUNTEER, contact Flo Ioannou at fioannou@optonline.net or contact the Church office.

 

Saint Paraskevi Sunday School

Program Classes For 2023

Jan. 1	No Class	Circumcision of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Jan. 8	Class	Sunday After Epiphany
Jan. 15	Class	12th Sunday of Luke
Jan. 22	Class	15th Sunday of Luke
Jan. 29	Class	Sunday of the Canaanite
Feb. 5	Class	Godparent Sunday/Sunday of the Pharisee/Triodian Begins
Feb. 12	Class	Sunday of the Prodigal Son
Feb. 19	No Class	Judgement (Meat fare)  Sunday
Feb. 26	Class	Forgiveness Sunday
Mar. 5	Class	Sunday of Orthodoxy/  Icon Procession
Mar. 12	Class	Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
Mar. 19	Class	Sunday of the Holy Cross/Oratorical Festival
Mar. 26	Class	Sunday of St. John Climacus
Apr. 2	Class	Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt
Apr. 9	No Class	Palm Sunday
Apr. 16	No Class	Great and Holy Pascha
Apr. 23	Class	St. Thomas Sunday
Apr. 30	Class	Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women
May 7	Class	Sunday of the Paralytic
May 14	Class	Sunday of Samaritan Woman
May 21	Class	Sunday of the Blind Man
May 28	No Class	Fathers of the 1st Council
June 4	Last day of Class	Holy Pentecost
June 11	No Class	Sunday of All Saints - High School and College Recognition Day

 

 Mission Statement 

    The mission of the Saint Paraskevi Sunday School is to nurture, instruct and direct students growing in the Orthodox faith by fostering a closer relationship with God and one another, by following Christ in Christian living “the life in Christ”.

     Education of faith is a life-long journey that starts in the family home and is enhanced, nurtured and fulfilled in the community of faith, the household of God, which is the Church. The goal of the Orthodox teaching is for each person to become an icon, a living image of God, a person who lives in continual fellowship – communion – with God, reflecting a particular way – the Christ-like way – of knowing and living in the world.

Click on the below links for Online Religious Education Resources:

Sunday’s Gospel’s for Children:  http://ww1.antiochian.org/christianeducation/letusattend

Saint or Feast (Online Chapel):  https://www.goarch.org/educators/churchschool

Y2AM Live the Word:  https://www.y2am.org/athome

St. John Chrysostom Oratorical Festival: https://www.goarch.org/en/oratorical