Sunday School
Saint Paraskevi Sunday School
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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.
This year’s Sunday School theme is “Becoming Christ-like” ---The students will learn as part of the curriculum, what it means to “Follow Christ” as taught in the Holy Scriptures and lived by our Saints. (Also see our Mission Statement below).
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.
Please note, we are following COVID guidelines for classroom settings.
Our Sunday School classes and teachers this year are as follows:
Pre-K and Kindergarten – Lisa Schiede and Eleni Triantafillou
Grades 1 and 2- Nick and Karen Kontos
Grade 3 and 4- Cally Schickler and Melanthi Parpas
Grade 5 and 6 – Kathy Demacopoulos and Elizabeth Essopos
Grades 7, 8 and 9- Christopher Triantafillou and Nicholas Kouroupakis
Grade 10, 11 and 12- Gus Constantine and George Demacopoulos
Sunday School teachers and other volunteers are always needed.
Click here to VOLUNTEER to help.
Saint Paraskevi Sunday School
Program Classes For 2022
Jan. 2 |
No Class |
Sunday Before Epiphany |
Jan. 9 |
Class |
Sunday After Epiphany |
Jan. 16 |
Class |
12th Sunday of Luke |
Jan. 25 |
Class |
14th Sunday of Luke |
Jan. 30 |
Class |
Synaxis of the Three Hierarchs |
Feb. 6 |
Godparent Sunday |
Sunday of the Canaanite |
Feb. 13 |
Class |
Sunday of the Pharisee/Triodion Begins |
Feb. 20 |
No Class |
Sunday of the Prodigal Son |
Feb. 27 |
Class |
Judgement (Meat fare) Sunday |
Mar. 6 |
Class |
Forgiveness Sunday |
Mar. 13 |
Class |
Sunday of Orthodoxy/Icon Procession |
Mar. 20 |
Class |
Oratorical Festival/Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas |
Mar. 27 |
Class |
Sunday of the Holy Cross/Youth Choir Rehearsal |
Apr. 3 |
Class |
Sunday of St. John Climacus/Youth Choir Rehearsal |
Apr. 10 |
Class |
Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt/Youth Choir Rehearsal |
Apr. 17 |
No Class |
Palm Sunday (Myrophores/Youth Choir) |
Apr. 24 |
No Class |
Great and Holy Pascha |
May 1 |
Class |
St. Thomas Sunday |
May 8 |
Class |
Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women |
May 15 |
Class |
Sunday of the Paralytic |
May 22 |
Class |
Graduation Sunday/Sunday of Samaritan Woman |
May 29 |
No Class |
Sunday of the Blind Man |
June 5 |
Last day of Class |
Fathers of the 1st Council |
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