| Children & Youth Ministries | | | Mission Statement: The Epiphany Youth Education Committee is dedicated to fostering a joy-filled
love of God. We strive to make Epiphany a home for all children, and a place
they long to come to and want to stay. We nurture and educate our children in the Christian Faith and the Episcopal
Church. At every phase of education, we use scripture and liturgical practice
and tradition. As we foster the confidence that God is at work in our lives
to engage our Holy Imagination, we hope to inspire a long-lasting relationship
of peace, outreach, understanding and stewardship. |  |
Dates to Remember for Children: | August 15: | |
.Youth Group Start up, 6 p.m.
.Parents of teens meet and greet and learn about the program
| | August 22: | | Sunday School Begins, 10 - 11 a.m. | August 29: | | Pilgrimage Presentation by J2A, 10 - 11 a.m | September 26: | | St. Francis Holy Eucharist 6 p.m. | November 3: | | All Saint's Family Festival, 6:30 p.m. (Potluck @ 5:30 p.m.) | November 7: | | Godly Play Open House for Parents, 10 - 11 a.m. | December 5:: | | Feast of St. Nicolas Family Festival, 10 a.m | January 6: | Epiphany Pageant. Dress Rehearsal, 4 p.m. Pageant @ 6 p.m. | March 8: | | Bury the Alleluias for Lent (Shrove Tuesday) 5:30 p.m. | April 17: | | Palm Sunday with Mary Frances the donkey both services | April 23: | | Holy Saturday Quiet Day, 9:30 a.m. - 12 noon | April 24: | | Easter Sunday Easter Egg Hunt: 10 a.m. | Palm Sunday Dance | May 8: | | Sunday School last day | | May 8: | | Rt 13 Celebration, 8:45 w/reception afterwards | |
| | Our parents and parishioners are our greatest resource! If you would like to volunteer in any capacity - from helping with snack on Sunday morning, fixing a bulletin board, teaching, or helping with Youth Group - we want to hear from you! Please contact The Rev. Cynthia Hizer, 404.373.8338. Except where otherwise indicated, the contact for Children’s Ministries is The Rev. Cynthia Hizer, 404.373.8338 or .Vestry Chair for Childrlen's Ministries - Dave
Thompson, 770.982.6170
.Vestry Chair for Youth - Mike McAuliffe, 770-414-1815 | Everyone loves our Palm Sunday Donkey, Mary Frances | | Committe on Children' Formation | Our Christian Education Committee is vibrant and busy. We plan the programming for children and youth, train teachers and offer on-going teacher support.
Leaders: Heather Knapp, 404.664.6923 |
.Click here for the meeting and program schedules for Training and Support, J2A Teachers' Meetings and Christian Ed. Committee Meetings .Click here for the Sunday School Schedule. |
For Children
| | Childcare | | | Epiphany offers Nursery care for infants and toddlers on Sunday mornings from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Wednesday evenings during the school year and for many special events. We employ professional caregivers during that time, with parent volunteers assisting. We encourage families to bring children back into church for Communion. | | Children’s Chapel | | Children's Chapel is held during the 8:45 a.m. service on Sundays during the
school year (except for the first Sunday of the month, which is our Family Service). It is a fun, worshipful and love-filled period, with liturgy,
music, homily and prayers. We learn to set the table, reverence, cross ourselves
and learn the stories and song of the liturgical year. We then process back
to "big church" to join our families during the Peace, and remain
for the celebration of Holy Eucharist. The officiant is Heather Knapp. Musician is Barbara Hotz. Parents are encourage to attend until children are comfortable, and then invited to continue to help with music and being with the children. | | Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. | - For 2-3 year-olds we offer a modified Godly Play classroom, with dolls, puppets and flannel board Bible stories, song, music and snack.
| - Ages 4 through Grade 3: We proudly offer Godly Play, a Montessori-based program that develops the natural religious potential of the child through parables, sacred stories, silence and liturgical action. We have four classrooms with volunteer teachers trained in this wonderful and nurturing program.
- Club 45: For grades4 and 5 uses the Episcopal lectionary-based program Living the Good News. Children learn more about liturgy, the Book of Common Prayer, Saints, and scripture, and have their first experiences being acolytes. Students, teachers (and parents are welcome to join) will meet in the church once a month during the Sunday School hour with the acolyte master to practice and gain confidence for Sunday liturgies, seasonal (Christmas, Lenten Season, Easter) and special liturgies (Holy Days, Evensong, funerals).
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Learn about
Godly Play
Click here to view a YouTube video about Godly Play | Godly Play Story Schedule
Click here to view the Godly Play Story Schedule |
| Sunday
School
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here for a form to register your children for Sunday School. If you would
like to volunteer in any capacity, contact The Rev. Cynthia
Hizer at 404.373.8338. |
| | For Teens | - Sunday School August 15 - May 15.
- Youth group on Sunday Nights August 15 - May 15.
- Service and Outreach Projects.
- Movies, Lock-in's, and Diocesan activities.
- Camp Mikell weekends (young teens early December, older teens early January).
| | The Journey to Adulthood Program encompasses youth from grades 6-12. Classes meet from 10 to 11:00 a.m. each Sunday. Each group runs for two years and offers many opportunities for community building with themselves and with the other groups. | - Rite 13 is for 6th and 7th graders. Rite 13 offers a safe and responsible environment for questioning and testing their faith and a meaningful Rite 13 ceremony to mark their movement away from childhood toward adulthood.
| - J2A is for 8th and 9th graders. In the first year the group goes on an "urban plunge" - to such destinations as Chicago or New Orleans. In the second year, the groups goes on a spiritual pilgrimage - past pilgrimages have been to Montreal, Rome, Navajoland. They work on the Jumble Sale each summer to raise money for the bi-annual trip.
- YAC for 10th and 11th graders. YAC, or Young Adults in the Church, have just returned from a spiritual pilgrimage to Navajoland in northern Arizona. Now, as a tight knit group, they will begin the fall season by preparing for Confirmation. They will also move their foundation of faith into choosing ministries in which to participate in the church. They will be sharing the story of their pilgrimage with the parish on August 15 during the Sunday School hour.
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Our Youth at Camp Mikell | | Epiphany Youth Group | | Sunday nights at 5:00 p.m. from September 21 to May, youth and dedicated adults gather for activities from putt-putt to planting trees, laughing and eating, sharing stories and their lives in a relaxed setting. | | Special Events | | Here are some of the things we do during the year: Help cook and serve at Peachtree Pine, Atlanta's biggest homeless shelter, Hagar's House for homeless women and children, walk in the Hunger Walk, visit nursery homes, help the elderly with jobs around their houses, visit shut-ins, glean for apples in north Georgia for the Atlanta Food Bank. Look for current opportunities in The Epiphany Star. | | Diocesan Activities | | The Atlanta Diocese offers regular activities for youth, and leadership opportunitities. We we let you know of activities and you can also subscribe to Connecting, the Diocesan web newspaper. |  | Epiphany rents out our Sunday School space during the weekday to The Oakhurst Cooperative Preshool. For more information about the preschool, visit their website at http://www.oakhurstcoop.com/ |
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