Cec Holds Annual Back To Sunday School Workshops

With the new Sunday school year fast approaching, the Christian Education Council, under the direction of His Eminence Ab. Hovnan Derderian, is once again offering their Back to Sunday School workshops during the month of August.  All Sunday school superintendents, teachers, and church leaders have been invited to participate in this always-informative event designed to support and ready our school leaders for the new school year.  The workshops are always centered on collaboration across our Western Diocese and consistency within our classrooms.  The CEC makes it a priority to support every parish Sunday school so that lessons and programs are Christ-centered, rich in our Armenian culture, and aligned with the doctrines of the Armenian Church and the church’s Liturgical calendar. 

This year’s Sunday school theme is:

It’s a Beautiful Day in our Neighborhood . . . Won’t you LOVE Thy Neighbor?

Our main topic of discussion at this year’s workshop is to help generate better parent involvement within our Sunday school programs.  Learning to be a good neighbor begins in the home, and who better to teach and model this other than our Sunday school parents.  The goal is to give parents the tools necessary to continue the good teachings being taught on Sundays into their homes so that, together with their children, they may put them to authentic, good use.  If church and parents do their jobs well, it truly will be a beautiful day in our neighborhoods! 

The workshops are being offered in 3 different locations to best serve our Sunday schools:

• St. Peter, Van Nuys– for Southern California parishes
• St. Paul, Fresno – for Central California parishes
• St. John, San Francisco – for Northern California parishes

The workshops are being led by CEC Board members Gail Chelebian (Chairlady), Fr. Krikor  Zakaryan (Clergy Advisor), and Lynn Bedrosian (Teaching Advisor), along with Sevag Derderian. (AACCWD Chair).

We wish to thank all of the host parishes and participants for their love and support of our Sunday schools.  We are greatly humbled by the sincere gratitude and hospitality shown at all workshop locations.  We look forward to a wonderful Sunday school.

Faithfully,

Gail Chelebian

CEC Chair