Dear Parents:
We are happy to have your children participate in the Christian Education program at St. Nicholas this 2024-2025 year. Families will worship together during the Divine Liturgy and the children will be dismissed after Holy Communion to their Christian Education classes. Classes will be from 10:45AM to 11:30AM. We will educate our students with the fundamental knowledge of the Orthodox Christian Faith, its message of Salvation and our identity as Orthodox Christians. To equip students with the ability to practice their Orthodox Faith in worship, prayer and action. Father John will kick-off our year with an Agiasmos Service (Blessing of Water), August 25, 2024 to bless the teachers, students and classrooms.
We use the material developed at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Department of Religious Education and, in doing so, we cover all aspects of the faith like Feast Days, Hymns, Prayers, Sacraments, Saints, Church History and Scripture.
The classes and teachers are listed below:
- Pre-Kindergarten class/must 3 or 4 years old and potty trained-
Cynthia Johnston, Melissa Moxen, Sarah Cagle, Belle Dowling, Jennifer Moss and Colleen Church
- Kindergarten and 1st grade class-
Anna Feliberti, Andrea Galanides and Leslie Ullom
- 2nd and 3rd grade class-
Laura Todorovic, Elena Bruno, Maria Maddox and Carolyn Mahon
- 4th and 5th grade class-
Louisa Cook and Cheryl Tutko
- 6th, 7th and 8th grade class-
Andrew Wickard, Andrea Jernigan, Hope Damergis and Lieske Navarre
- 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade class-
Thom Maddox, Jaccy Colton and Ed Ullom
Registration is necessary ONLY if your child was not in a class last year at St. Nicholas OR if your contact information has changed since last year. If you are uncertain about either, please provide the information. There will be a sign-up table in the social hall each Sunday during the month of August until classes begin on August 25th. If you would like to register by email, please send all registrations to: eullom@cox.net Attention: Leslie Ullom/CE registration
Please make attendance a priority and come EVERY Sunday because this is the key to how effectively the lessons taught will reach our children AND consistency makes your child feel more comfortable in church and in the classroom.
Listed below are ALL the Sundays in this 2024-2025 School Year
Sunday, August 25- First day of classes! Agiasmos Blessing, Blessing of the Water, for Teachers, Students and classrooms!
Sunday, September 1-NO CLASS, student participation day in church!
Sunday, September 8-CLASS
Sunday, September 15-CLASS
Sunday, September 22-CLASS
Sunday, September 29-CLASS
Sunday, October 6-CLASS
Sunday, October13-CLASS
Sunday, October 20-CLASS
Sunday, October 27-CLASS
Sunday, November 3-CLASS
Sunday, November 10-NO CLASS, student participation day in church!
Sunday, November 17-CLASS
Sunday, November 24-CLASS
Sunday, December 1-NO CLASS, Thanksgiving Weekend
Sunday, December 8-CLASS
Sunday, December 15-NO CLASS, Christmas Pageant in church TODAY!!!
Sunday, December 22-CLASS
Sunday, December 29-NO CLASS, this is Christmas/NY Day Weekend
Sunday, January 5-CLASS
Sunday, January 12-CLASS, We will have a Vasilopita in each CLASS today.
Sunday, January 19-NO CLASS, student participation day in church!
Sunday, January 26-CLASS
Sunday, February 2-CLASS
Sunday, February 9-CLASS, Triodion Begins
Sunday, February 16-NO CLASS, student participation day in church!
Sunday, February 23-CLASS, Jr/Sr Division Oratorical Festival in church during the Sermon time, YES! class after Communion as usual.
Sunday, March 2-CLASS, Forgiveness Sunday
Sunday, March 9-NO CLASS, Sunday of Orthodoxy, icon procession and elementary students will present their icons.
Sunday, March 16-CLASS, St. Gregory Palamas Sunday
Sunday, March 23- NO CLASS-CROSS PROCESSION for Sunday of the HOLY CROSS
Sunday, March 30-CLASS, St. John Climacus Sunday
Sunday, April 6- CLASS-St. Mary of Egypt Sunday
(Lazarus Saturday Liturgy/Pancake Breakfast/Palm Folding APRIL 12)
Sunday, April 13-NO CLASS, Palm Sunday, Palm Procession today!
Sunday, April 20-NO CLASS, Great and Holy Pascha, Easter Day! Agape Service at 11AM and Egg Hunt to follow!
Sunday, April 27-CLASS
Sunday, May 4-CLASS
Sunday, May 11-CLASS
Sunday, May 18-CLASS (EXCEPT HIGH SCHOOL HAS NO CLASS see below***) This will be the last day in the classroom.
*** This is Scholarship Sunday-The high school class will stay in church and the seniors will be acknowledged by their teachers.
Sunday, May 25-NO CLASS-Memorial Day-We will reconvene in August! Have a wonderful summer!
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6
Praying for a prosperous year of learning and growing in Our Faith, with love in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior,
Leslie Ullom, Director Phone: (757) 477-6659
