Feasts and Festivals Online Course presented by
The E-Learning Task Force

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About This Course
This segment is brought to you by “Feasts and Festivals,” which is our Sunday School’s theme for April 24th - May 15th.

The main idea for these four weeks is that “Jewish special days help us understand how Jesus lived and remember what God has done. We can remember all that God has done and give thanks.”

The objective is that “children (and others young in faith?) explore and gain appreciation of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Hanukkah, and Sabbath [also spelled ‘Shabbat’].” Because the Festival of Pentecost comes at the end of this unit we have included it.

To hold down the number of PDF pages, this series looks at only the Sabbath, Hanukkah, and Pentecost.

The lesson materials we use are from the PowerXpress! series published by Abingdon Press. If you want to know more about this lesson series, go to http://www.cokesbury.com/curriculum.aspx?subsection=9&sid=126

This course is a gift to you from the First Presbyterian Church in Portland, Oregon.

It was created by our E-Learning Task Force: Eric Danskine (technical support), Mary Duckert (creator of future children’s activities), Fran Elton (editor), Steve Maling (writer and chair), and Anne Stewart Miller (pastoral support).

Questions, comments and suggestions can be e-mailed to Steve Maling at dsmaling@pacifier.com. He’ll respond within 36 hours.

Special thanks are due: Bracy Elton (PDF support); Donna Maling (“first reader”); Erich Merrill (copyright questions); Jean Mittelstaedt (uploading to Web site).