{"id":5174,"date":"2015-09-14T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2016-09-19T10:00:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T14:00:45","slug":"confirmation-classes-begin-october-27-at-1130-a-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/?p=5174","title":{"rendered":"Church School Classes &#8211; Resume September 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8504 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/youthgrouplong-e1453143342352.jpg\" alt=\"youthgrouplong\" width=\"804\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Church School Resumes<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\">Church School resumes on Sunday, September 18\u00a0so bring your children, youth, and friends to Church School! For questions about any of our programs email Kathy Dewalt, Director of Family Ministries, at <a href=\"mailto:dewalt@slechurch.org\">dewalt@slechurch.org<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><strong>At 9:50 a.m., if your children wish to attend Church School while you attend worship, the following classes are available, by age (please note that all classrooms other than the nursery are located on the 3rd floor and are clearly marked):<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><strong>From Six Weeks \u2013 3 Years old<\/strong>, children are welcome in the nursery at St. Luke\u2019s, located just off of the Assembly Hall where coffee hour is held after worship. Our trained, responsible, and kind nursery staff will ensure that your children will be safe, comfortable, and entertained while you attend worship. You\u2019re welcome to stay, too!<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><strong>From 3 Years through 1st Grade<\/strong>, children are invited to join our, \u201cGodly Play\u201d classroom, which helps to teach stories according to the Liturgical Calendar in a way that young ones can understand.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><strong>From 2nd through 5th grade<\/strong>, children enter more depth and understanding in our \u201cExploring the Good News\u201d class. Not only do children learn the stories, they begin to question and learn how the stories teach lessons about life and how the stories apply to them.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><strong>From 6th\u00a0through\u00a08th grade<\/strong>, youth continue to delve deeper into their faith as they discuss harder questions, address their connection to faith and society, and more. At the end of this class, children participate if they choose in a Rite 13 ceremony, affirming their intentions to continue in the path of christianity, study, and reflection.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><strong>From 9th through 12th grade<\/strong>, teens participate in our high school class. Deeper and more intellectual faith questions are explored, some which have no easy answers. Fellowship with peers is often well established and participants build lasting friendships as they tackle tough questions together. High school aged youth are also encouraged to join youth group and participate in outreach, mission trips, confirmation and other exciting opportunities.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church School Resumes Church School resumes on Sunday, September 18\u00a0so bring your children, youth, and friends to Church School! For questions about any of our programs email Kathy Dewalt, Director of Family Ministries, at dewalt@slechurch.org. At 9:50 a.m., if your children wish to attend Church School while you attend worship, the following classes are available, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spiritual-enrichment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC01103.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}