The Parish of the Epiphany

Family Newsletter: Summer Edition
June 21 2020
The Third Sunday After Pentecost

Join With Us This Week At the Parish of the Epiphany

In this newsletter:

Sunday Service: Read- and Do-Alongs for Children

Summer Children's Message: Join Ellen!

Growing in the Fruit of the Spirit Summer Devotional: Week 1

In the Parish

Summer Blessings

Sunday Service Read- and Do-Alongs

Join our 10am live worship service every Sunday on YouTube. Here are some worksheets to help you listen and learn!

Hagar Coloring Sheet

Scripture Word Find: Matthew 10: 24-39

Summer Children's Message

This summer our community will be offering special children's messages via YouTube. We'll have friends sharing music, stories, experiments, and more! Some faces will be very familiar from chapel or Sunday School, and some will be new friends. We hope you enjoy getting to know our community in new ways.

Join Ellen Wilson via YouTube for this week's summer children's message. Ellen takes us on a journey into the past and puts her unique touches on a favorite hymn. Big thanks to Ellen and to Shukong Ou for his wonderful camera and editing work.

Ellen's Summer Children's Message

Would you or your family like to make a summer children's video? We'd love to have you join our team! Email Bryn for details.

Growing In the Fruit of the Spirit: This Summer at Parish of the Epiphany!

Our children’s ministry summer theme is Growing in the Fruit of the Spirit. As we remembered on Pentecost, the Holy Spirit lives in each of us, in all who welcome God into their hearts and minds. The Holy Spirit -- our advocate, our helper -- works within us, that we may glorify and serve God, and love our neighbors.

Galatians 5: 22-23 tells us that “the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” This summer let’s all encourage--cultivate--this fruit within ourselves and our children.

Each week our newsletter will have Bible verses on which to meditate, ideas for crafts to enjoy, and suggestions for picture books the whole family can read together (and some longer “big kid” books, too). These are options, resources, ideas; they do not need to be done in whole or sequentially.

Your children can decorate this chart as they work through the summer.

This summer may we all grow in the fruit of the spirit.

Week One: The Fruit of the Spirit

Verse to learn

Galatians 5: 22-23, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”

Trace the verse printable.

Fill in the blank verse printable.

Fruit of the Spirit Naming Sheet

Talk about it

Who is the Holy Spirit? How does real fruit grow? How can the Holy Spirit grow good things in us?

Great Story Books

Pups of the Spirit by Melmon (Hollenbeck Favorite)
Nine Fruits Alive by Macdonald

Ideas for Craft Time

Make and Decorate a Verse Poster and hang it your home
Color this Fruit of the Spirit Coloring Sheet
Lemon & Apple painting: Cut the fruit in half and then dip the cut side into paint and use as stamp.

In the Parish

Every Monday Parish of the Epiphany sends out a parish-wide newsletter, called The Three Crowns. You can find issues here.

There is a Bible Study for grown-ups (and teens) at 9am each Sunday via Zoom. Click here to join.

Summer Blessings

Summer is here in all its glory! While it's natural for us to feel the loss of some summer traditions this year, may we not miss the joy around us. You are invited to email Bryn a photo of the simple summer blessings you have found, to share here with our community.

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