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News of St. Anne’s Sunday School

Happy New Year everyone!!! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday and are refreshed and ready for the next phase of Sunday School classes, we have much going on in the next few months!

Important Dates!
January 8, 2012 – Bishop Terrance Dance, Bishop of Norfolk, will be visiting St. Anne’s! Bishop Dance will bless the formal naming of St. Anne’s nursery as the Fidelia Hunt nursery. After the 10am service we are having an Epiphany Party! The Hostess Group will be serving sandwiches and refreshments, and courtesy of the youth group there will be Epiphany “3 King’s Cakes”, Epiphany games and special surprises for us.

January 15, 2012 – Regular Sunday School classes to resume. Martin Luther King’s birthday.

January 16, 2012 – Martin Luther King Day.

February 22, 2012 – Shrove Tuesday! On the Sunday prior to Shrove Tuesday (February 20) we will be discussing Lent and why we “give up things” during this period. The children will also be bringing home special cards into which they can place a quarter each day during the Lenten period for a special Sunday School Easter offering.

Birthdays
October 28 – Beyonca;   December 4 – Jack; December 24 – Kylie;  January 4 – Cole;
January 6 – Kendra; January 16 – Nathaniel

Featured Funny
Nine-year-old Joey was asked by his mother what he had learned in Sunday School. "Well, Mom, our teacher told us how God sent Moses behind enemy lines on a rescue mission to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. When he got to the Red Sea, he had his engineers build a pontoon bridge, and all the people walked across safely. He used his walkie-talkie to radio headquarters and call in an air strike. They sent in bombers to blow up the bridge and all the Israelites were saved." "Now, Joey, is that REALLY what your teacher taught you?" his mother asked. "Well, no Mom, but if I told it the way the teacher did, you'd never believe it!"

Live, Love, Laugh,
Denise

Other Featured Funnies
A Sunday School teacher challenged her children to take some time on Sunday afternoon to write a letter to God. They were to bring their letter back the following Sunday. One little boy wrote, "Dear God, we had a good time at church today. Wish you could have been there.”   …food for thought!

Did Noah Fish???
 A Sunday school teacher asked, "Johnny, do you think Noah did a lot of fishing when he was on the Ark?"  "No," replied Johnny, "how could he, with just two worms!"