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Good Morning Everyone:
Please find a link below for the Sunday School lesson video for Sunday, Sept. 27th. The service for Sunday, September 27th is not available. https://www.wevideo.com/view/1849692158 Claire + |
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH, 2020 REOPENING
SUNDAY SCHOOL, TWEEN AND TEEN MEETINGS
10AM to approximately 10:30AM
Tweens (ages 10 to 12) will bring their own chairs for outdoor use.
-laminated COVID 19 questionnaire for parents
-thermometer (check temperature at wrist for young children)
-Sunday School ‘count’ cards
-hand sanitizer
-wet wipes -first aid kit
-extra masks, adult and child sizes
-orange juice (for emergency use)
-Granola bars (for emergency use)
-disinfectant for hula hoops, small tables and kneelers
* Sunday School teachers to disinfect hula loops, small tables and kneelers. Return items to the Sunday School cupboard.
* Sunday School teacher to pre-record story for the website or record story during Sunday School.
* Each child will be provided with a kit with the following: Crayons, Pencil, crayons, Pencil, Scissors, Glue. Each child will bring the kit home, to be returned each Sunday. Children will not share items in the kits with each other. Snack will not be provided.
SUNDAY SCHOOL, TWEEN AND TEEN MEETINGS
10AM to approximately 10:30AM
- Sunday School will be provided for school age children. School age for our program has been determined to be junior kindergarten and older. Parents will be asked to send children dressed appropriately for outdoors.
- In the event of inclement weather, children up to nine years of age will stay with their families inside the church.
- Children need to bring a mask and will only be directed to wear a mask when in the church building.
Tweens (ages 10 to 12) will bring their own chairs for outdoor use.
- In the event of inclement weather, tweens will meet in the parish hall for their meeting.
- Social distancing will be enforced.
- Tweens need to bring a mask and will only be directed to wear a mask when in the church building.
- In the event of inclement weather, tweens will meet in the parish hall for their meeting.
- Social distancing will be enforced.
- Tweens need to bring a mask and will only be directed to wear a mask when in the church building.
- All participants and volunteer teachers are asked to bring a mask for entering the church building. Extra adult and child-size masks will be available.
- A letter and (questionnaire/survey) will be available to the parish to inform families of the Sunday School format and how to let us know if they are planning to attend Sunday School, tween and teen meetings this fall.
- Two Sunday School teachers will be scheduled for a maximum of ten children. If there are more children than anticipated, some parents will be asked to stay with their children.
- One monitor will be scheduled for every ten children.
- The monitor will deliver the number of children and adults to the sides people during the story. (this ‘count’ information is important to record and to assure the correct number of communion wafers)
- The monitor will be responsible for escorting children to the washroom and/or escorting children to their parents.
- Children escorted to the washroom, wearing a mask, will use the washroom alone as only one person is to use the washroom at any given time. Escort the child directly to the washroom and back to the Sunday School class. No touching hand railings or other items, if possible.
- Preparation before 10am – Sunday School teachers and monitors to prepare.
- Pick up hula hoops, small tables, kneelers from Sunday School cupboard.
- Set up items in Canon Claire’s backyard in an appropriate spot.
- Photo will be provided of proper set-up to space children 6 feet apart.
- Teacher kit with the following items:
-laminated COVID 19 questionnaire for parents
-thermometer (check temperature at wrist for young children)
-Sunday School ‘count’ cards
-hand sanitizer
-wet wipes -first aid kit
-extra masks, adult and child sizes
-orange juice (for emergency use)
-Granola bars (for emergency use)
-disinfectant for hula hoops, small tables and kneelers
* Sunday School teachers to disinfect hula loops, small tables and kneelers. Return items to the Sunday School cupboard.
* Sunday School teacher to pre-record story for the website or record story during Sunday School.
- Assure the children are not visible in the video.
- Send video to Tammy Bussey before or immediately after Sunday School.
* Each child will be provided with a kit with the following: Crayons, Pencil, crayons, Pencil, Scissors, Glue. Each child will bring the kit home, to be returned each Sunday. Children will not share items in the kits with each other. Snack will not be provided.
- Parents to give snack to their child if there are personal or medical reasons the child requires to eat during Sunday School.
- Children will be encouraged to bring a water bottle.
- At the conclusion of the church service parents are to pick up children from the outdoor space where they were dropped off. Children are to take their kits home along with any items they were given to complete a craft or activity.
- Sunday School teachers will tell a story from a story book or by using Godly Play curriculum and materials. Children are not to touch the Godly Play materials.
- A simple craft, colouring sheet or activity sheet will be provided by Sunday School teachers. Keep in mind the children must be able to complete the task on their own. Teachers cannot handle the materials that the child is working with.
- All materials provided must be prepared so that the children do not share paint, glue, etc.
RE-OPENING OF ST. THOMAS CHURCH FOR SERVICES
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2020
FINAL GUIDELINES & PROTOCOLS
(AUGUST 31, 2020)
Please find below our Guidelines and Protocols re the opening of St. Thomas Church for worship on Sunday, September 13 at 10AM. The date is fast approaching. Since March, we were instructed by the bishops of the Diocese to cease all services of worship in our church buildings, due to COVID 19. We have not worshipped together, in church, for 6 months!
In response, together with a dedicated group of 5, that was allowed at that time, we switched to online worship. We would not want to disappoint the hundreds who have been following us on Youtube and/or those who, for health and other reasons, will find it difficult to worship in-person with us. Our services will be recorded and sent out to our faithful following!
May I remind you that our service on September 13 will not be what we have been accustomed to; we must await word from the bishop as to how long we will have to conduct worship in this way. We will begin and see how and where the Spirit leads us – we will see how things play out. At first, it may seem cumbersome and awkward - things are new and different but we will get into it and it will become, almost routine; it will become our new normal. We may even realize that it is not half as foreign as we feared!
We have compared our Draft Plans (1,2) for St. Thomas that you have received before, with the final Guidelines and Protocols sent out by the Diocese, August 19. We are in full compliance with the guidelines and protocols provided by the Diocese, put in our St. Thomas context. Come, let us gather together for worship in God’s house. We know that when we do, God by God’s Spirit is with and among us – as individuals and as a congregation -- to love us, to forgive us, to bless us and to send us out in power to do God’s work in the world.
Canon Claire+
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2020
FINAL GUIDELINES & PROTOCOLS
(AUGUST 31, 2020)
Please find below our Guidelines and Protocols re the opening of St. Thomas Church for worship on Sunday, September 13 at 10AM. The date is fast approaching. Since March, we were instructed by the bishops of the Diocese to cease all services of worship in our church buildings, due to COVID 19. We have not worshipped together, in church, for 6 months!
In response, together with a dedicated group of 5, that was allowed at that time, we switched to online worship. We would not want to disappoint the hundreds who have been following us on Youtube and/or those who, for health and other reasons, will find it difficult to worship in-person with us. Our services will be recorded and sent out to our faithful following!
May I remind you that our service on September 13 will not be what we have been accustomed to; we must await word from the bishop as to how long we will have to conduct worship in this way. We will begin and see how and where the Spirit leads us – we will see how things play out. At first, it may seem cumbersome and awkward - things are new and different but we will get into it and it will become, almost routine; it will become our new normal. We may even realize that it is not half as foreign as we feared!
We have compared our Draft Plans (1,2) for St. Thomas that you have received before, with the final Guidelines and Protocols sent out by the Diocese, August 19. We are in full compliance with the guidelines and protocols provided by the Diocese, put in our St. Thomas context. Come, let us gather together for worship in God’s house. We know that when we do, God by God’s Spirit is with and among us – as individuals and as a congregation -- to love us, to forgive us, to bless us and to send us out in power to do God’s work in the world.
Canon Claire+
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