We organize several family events each year. Past events have included bowling, progressive dinners, Christian concerts, Father’s Day picnics, hayride and bonfires, museum trips, game nights, amusement park trips, tennis and ice cream social, trips to sporting events, Christmas caroling, New Year’s Eve parties and more.  Look in the latest newsletter to see what is happening this month.

             We are working to make our worship service more friendly for children by providing and maintaining children’s worship bags with small quiet toys and activities, booster seats for young children, and resources to help parents guide their children to get more out of our worship services.

             We organize service days to allow families to work together in service to others.  For example, doing home improvements for widows.  We have also organized a trip for adults to help with hurricane relief.

             We also organize events to meet the needs of different groups in our congregation, such as Women’s Overnights, Marriage Seminars, family weekend retreats, a dinner for parents of young children, Couple’s Night Out, and more.

             We have also implemented programs to help our church become a friendlier place, such as church name tags and church T-shirts.

Our education offerings typically take place in a seminar format.  We typically coordinate and provide refreshments for 3 Sunday intergenerational seminars each year (see the Bible Studies page for more information on these).

     We have also offered afternoon and evening seminars on such topics as Caring for Your Aging Parents, Time Management, Parenting (“Bringing Up Boys”), Marriage Enrichment, Dealing with Family Members Who Don’t Attend Church, and more.

     Every Spring, we offer “Celebrate Sexuality,” which is a five week Christian sex education class for fifth graders and their parents.  Most of the material is taken from Concordia Publishing House’s “Learning about Sex” series, especially Sex and the New You for ages 11-14.  Each session involves games, presentations, family discussion time.  Our main objectives for “Celebrate Sexuality” are to educate our children about their developing sexuality and many of the issues they face surrounding their sexuality, especially before they hear it from a secular perspective in school (without moral instruction) and to initiate an open atmosphere and conversation between children and parents about sexuality. Contact our DCE to find out when the next class will be offered.