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 Frequency of meetings:
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
Sunday-school
12:25-1:10pm
G5 inside the Church Hall
G6 in the Church Mezzanine

6. Curriculum for Pre-class songs Songs – alternate between English & Coptic
English songs (ES)
English hymns (EH)
Coptic Hymns (CH)
More Love, More Power
To Whom Shall I Go
Asomen (Coptic & Greek)
Father God
Don’t Leave me Alone
Amen tonthanaton
Humble Thyself
I place my Soul
Teeshori
Awesome God
Hail to Mary
Rashy Ne
Thank You Lord
Shepherd of my Soul
Prakis response for Nayrouz
You are Holy
Of all Nations
Hallelujah (Your Love is Amazing)
My Coptic Church
Refiner's heart
Schedule
Week
G4-6 1 EH
Mira 2 ES 3 CH
Rami …

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 ( )
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 were the names of Noah’s 3 sons?
ANS: Shem, Ham, and Japheth
What was the name of the woman that helped conceal Joshua’s spies in Jericho?
ANS: Raheb

11. Sunday-school Point System
Goals of point system
Reward system
Promote attendance
(Help needed!)
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)
Completion of homework (20 pts)
Song memorization (20 pts)
Memorizing a verse (10 pts)
In Class Participation (10 pts)
Memorizing a Psalm (half=50pts; full=100pts)
Bringing their folder to class (10 pts)
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 s (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

17. Fair Haven Service