Glossary

• The 9:10 a.m. service is a family-friendly service of Holy Eucharist. Children and youth serve as acolytes, lay readers, prayer leaders, ushers and chalice bearers; the children’s choirs sing.

Acolytes carry crosses, torches, flags and banners in the procession and assist the priests during the liturgy at the 9:10 a.m. service

Children’s & Family Ministries is the umbrella group for everything that goes on for families with children birth through sixth grade.

Children’s Eucharist focuses on young children at the 9:10 a.m. service on the first Sunday of each month. The Primary class students worship with their parents, all of the children’s choirs sing, one Church School class writes and leads the Prayers of the People, and all of the children are invited up to the front for the homily.

Communion Awareness classes are offered twice each year. Children and parents participate in an instructed Eucharist and are able to ask all the questions that they have about communion.

Decalogue Leaders lead the reading of the Ten Commandments during Lent at the 9:10 a.m. service.

Family Fridays feature bingo, movies, Lego building, dancing, and dinner from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Every Family Friday includes a mission component and encourages helping others. Watch for emails and notices in the Sunday leaflet for Family Friday dates.

Lay Readers read the lessons at the services.

Planitzer Nursery is a room maintained for our youngest parishioners, ages 0-2. The room is staffed by three wonderful women every Sunday morning from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Pledging Member is someone who has let the church know their financial commitment to the parish (what they intend to give) for annual operations in the calendar year. The gift(s) to fulfill the commitment may be made at one time, every week, or in another giving pattern during the year.

Prayer Leaders lead the Prayers of the People at the Sunday services.

Sunday Morning Hospitality includes coffee and donut holes downstairs from 8:30-9:05 a.m., in between the 9:10 and 11:15 a.m. services in Donegan Hallway, and after the 11:15 a.m. service in Sunderland Hall.

Toddler-Primary Chapel Service is a brief worship service in the Primary classroom. The children light the candles, take up the offering, make a prayer circle and say “Thank you, God for…”, hear a homily by one of the clergy, and extinguish the candles. On the fourth Sunday of the month, this service includes communion.

Toddler-Primary Offering is the total of offerings taken up in our Toddler and Primary Chapel Service. The ministry that receives each year’s Toddler-Primary Offering is chosen by the children and teachers.

The Worship Cart at the back of the nave provides packets for children’s use during the service. Each packet contains crayons, a pencil, paper and the “Sunday Paper,” an activity page for children based on the Gospel lesson of the day. A letter to the parents on the back of the Sunday Paper helps parents continue the teaching of the day throughout the week.