Invite your friends and get ready for another fun
COOS Rally Sunday Carnival
on Sunday, September 12,
to start off our 2010-2011 church school year!

Try your hand at David & Goliath's Slingshot Shootout, the Exodus Airball Maze, Pharoah's Fearsome Frogs, Disciples' Ring Toss, Name That Tune, and other carnival games, seeing how many prize coupons you can collect along the way. Take a break to catch up with friends over popcorn and snow cones.

Parents and pre-K through 12th graders are invited to arrive in the Undercroft at 9:45 am to complete registration and volunteer information forms, pick up a church school calendar, and buy tickets for the carnival games. Tickets are five for $1, with profits jump-starting the 2010-2011 noise offering to go to a charity chosen by the children at year's end. After the carnival, children and teens will rejoin their families in church at the time of the peace. But don't forget to bring your accumulated coupons back downstairs during coffee hour to trade them in for cool prizes. The carnival will be just the beginning of a fun year together of fellowship, worship, learning and growing.

See you at the carnival!

Our Church School

We have a great Sunday morning program, with classes for all ages from Pre-Kindergarten through Senior High.

As for curriculum, the Pre-K and K/1 classes use the Montessori-modeled Godly Play program, grades 2-6 use Bible Quest, and the Rite-13 class uses the Journey to Adulthood program. This Journey to Adulthood program is a highly acclaimed, integrated, six-year Episcopal curriculum we began phasing in during the fall of 2002. It includes youth group and community service components in addition to classes.

“Be doers of the word, not merely hearers.” – James 1:22. The Church School has been involved in a variety of outreach ministries including: raising funds for Heifer International through the Lenten ark collection and the Read-to-Feed programs, making Valentines for nursing home residents and Mother’s day cards for imprisoned mothers, hosting coffee hours during Lent, collecting money for and taking part in our local Crop Walk, donating money from the “noise offering” to the local animal shelter, caroling for Harborside residents, and packing shoeboxes of gifts for children through Operation Christmas Child. Fourteen senior high youth volunteered a week over the summer to repair homes of low income, disabled and elderly residents in Massachusetts through Group Workcamps. Many church school children take on the jobs of greeter, usher, lector, and intercessor during Family Eucharists. Others are active as acolytes, choir members, teaching assistants, and nursery helpers.

Classes for Pre-K through grade 6 meet at 9:45 Sunday morning; Rite-13 meets at 9:00; Senior High students meet every other Sunday 9:15. We look forward to welcoming you!

                        -Debbie Donnelly, Church School Director

Parish Family Eucharist
generally celebrated the first Sunday of each month)

Each month, we offer a special “child-friendly” Holy Eucharist (Holy Communion) —generally on the first Sunday of the month.

While some parts of the services are the same as on regular Sundays, others change. At the Family Eucharist, for example, the Bible selections are read by Church School members, as are the Intercessions — which are often written by the children themselves. Music comes from a variety of sources, but is singable and easy for children to follow.

You will find the services of the Church of Our Saviour, whether on Family Sunday or otherwise, beautiful, God-centered, and yet mindful of the nature and needs of people of all ages.