Parent-Servant meeting June 13 th , 2010

1. Parent-Servant meeting June 13th, 2010 Fair Haven Service St. Mary’s COC Sunday-School Grades 5 & 6

2.  Welcome!  • Goals of this meeting • To get parents & servants on one team & on the same page • Create a family & servant supportive network • Future: Establish a clear spiritual curriculum with the families • Frequency of meetings: • Next meeting in November, 2010; • Every 3-4 months thereafter. • Frequency of meetings important to follow-up matters • to ensure issues brought up by parents are addressed & to update on the progress of the service)

3. Brief Outline • Getting parents & servants on one team. (Soad Hanna) • The curriculum plan to September 2010(Nadia Roufaiel & Fady Habib) • The Sunday-school point system (Paul Tokuda) • What the servants would like from the parents (Marc Ibrahim) • Communicating with parents in the time between meetings (Fabiola Tokuda) • Q&A and ‘one-to-one’ Parent-Servant meetings

4. One team: One body, One spirit! • A few words on the importance of getting parents & servants on one team . . . ONE GOAL  Eternal life. "And this is eternal life, that they may know You" (John 17:3)

5. The curriculum plan to September 2010 Schedule overview: • Pre-class songs • 12:00-12:15pm • G4-G6 in the Church • Special weekly topic • 12:15-12:25pm • G4-G6 in the Church • Sunday-school • 12:25-1:10pm • G5 inside the Church Hall • G6 in the Church Mezzanine

6. Curriculum for Pre-class songsSongs – alternate between English & Coptic

7. Curriculum for ‘Special Topics’ Topics include: • Church etiquette • Prayer • Confession • Fasting • Current issues/news

8. Curriculum for Sunday-school lessons • To date: SUS curriculum (http://www.suscopts.org/ssc/ ) • As of June 13th: Mahragan 2010 Competition 3-month Lesson Outline as follows: • June 13th & 20th – The Jewel of my Heart • June 27th & July 4th - The Jewel of my Church • July 11th & 18th – The Jewel of my Talents • July 25th & August 1st – The Jewel of my Family • August 8th & 15th – The Jewel of my Relationships • August 22nd – Bible & Psalm memorization Confession Schedule (re-starting in July 2010): • G5 with Ab. Barsoum– 3rd Sunday of each month • G6 with Ab. Barsoum – 4th Sunday of each month

9.  TRIVIA!  Win points for your children! Guess Who? – 10pts Guess Who? – 10 pts • We are two brothers, medical doctors, who cared for the sick at no charge. • ANS: Cozman & Damian

10.  TRIVIA!  Win points for your children! For 10 Points! For 10 Points! What was the name of the woman that helped conceal Joshua’s spies in Jericho? ANS: Raheb • What were the names of Noah’s 3 sons? • ANS: Shem, Ham, and Japheth

11. Sunday-school Point System • Goals of point system • Promote attendance • Encourage children to participate in the class • Provide positive reinforcement • Promote reading & memorizing Bible • Points distribution • Arriving on-time to Pre-class songs at 12:00pm (10 pts) • Song memorization (20 pts) • In Class Participation (10 pts) • Bringing their folder to class (10 pts) • Reward system • (Help needed!) • Completion of homework (20 pts) • Memorizing a verse (10 pts) • Memorizing a Psalm (half=50pts; full=100pts) • Perfect attendance in a month (100pts)

12. What we’d like from YOU!Pretty please…  • Follow up with your children on every Sunday-school lesson • Ask them about the lesson and, if needed, read it with them from the Bible (even before the lesson!  ) • Help them complete any hand-out (word-searches, questions, etc.) • Help them memorize their weekly/monthly Bible verses and/or Psalms • Remind them to complete & bring their folders every week • Confession Sundays – please be patient with the timing

13. What we’d like from YOU!Pretty please…  • Help us practice what we preach! Please lead by example. • Coming to church on time • Having communion every Sunday • Encourage good behaviour during the liturgy & appropriate clothing • Daily prayers -- as soon as children wake-up, after school, before meals, and before sleep. If possible, please also pray with them and even with their friends as a group! • Daily Bible readings • Fasting – encourage this as much as possible by providing suitable foods; also encourage them to fast from bad words , excessive computer/TV/video-game usage, etc… • Please make sure children arrive to SS on time (12:00pm)

14. Communicating between meetings We will communicate with families through: • Progress-reports at every meeting (3-4mos) • Weekly phone-calls to children • Handouts • Posters • Visitations • Reminder emails (supplementary method only)

15. Outline of next meeting Projected date: November 2010 • Follow-up on the progress made from May to November • Topics to be followed in Sunday school for the successive 3 months • Getting the children involved in church activities • Follow-up on the topics parents suggested they would like us to stress on in Sunday-school • In response to the paper questionnaire distributed at the end of the present meeting.

16. Q & A and ‘One-to-one’ Meetings OPEN FLOOR! ***Parents are strongly encouraged to provide us with feedback, comments, questions, suggestions, and/or concerns. • Suggestion box available just outside of the Baptisery to make comments and remain anonymous

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