The upholder of the cycles which sustain all Life is water.
In every drop of water dwells the Deity.
- Viktor Schauberger
In every drop of water dwells the Deity.
- Viktor Schauberger
During Lent in the month of March, the Sunday Club theme will be Living Water. The Sunday Club kids will be leading the community in a celebration of water as one of our most sacred and life-giving gifts. We will wonder and delight in the sacred water of Baptism and we will give thanks for water as one of the world's most precious resources.
Join with us as we create Saint Anne's own Baptism Anniversary wall chart. A calendar will be on the wall in the parish hall along with a schedule of Baptism anniversaries from the church office. The entire Saint Anne’s family is invited to find your name and write it on the chart. If you have any Baptism mementos or photos from your child’s Baptism or your own Baptism, you and your child are invited to bring that along to share with others.
Join with us as we create Saint Anne's own Baptism Anniversary wall chart. A calendar will be on the wall in the parish hall along with a schedule of Baptism anniversaries from the church office. The entire Saint Anne’s family is invited to find your name and write it on the chart. If you have any Baptism mementos or photos from your child’s Baptism or your own Baptism, you and your child are invited to bring that along to share with others.
As a social justice component of our celebration of water, your child will be taking special note of the amount of water we use daily in our households in the United States. Your child will bring home simple tracking sheets to be tacked up to a refrigerator or bulletin board. Your child can use these to keep a general record of their water usage over a several day period. This is meant to be a simple exercise to help us all appreciate how easily we have access to clean, readily available water, and a reminder to give thanks for this gift!
Your child will also bring home a Hope Chest from Episcopal Relief andDevelopment. If possible for your family, we are asking that parents have a small bowl of coins – pennies, nickels, dimes - available to your children during Lent. When your child notices water use at home, they can put a coin into the Hope Chest. We will be collecting the Hope Chests after Lent, and will send the money to Episcopal Relief & Development, which supports clean water programs. We are not looking to collect a high dollar amount, but rather to offer another reminder to give thanks for all we have, and a way to share our blessings with others.
Please contact me if you have any questions. As always, thank you for sharing your children with Saint Anne’s. They are the greatest of our many blessings!
p e a c e,
Jennifer
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