Commissionning for Church School

This past Sunday during our Children's Focus at the 10:00am service, we did something that is admittedly a few weeks over due (one of this year's casualties of the busyness of September). We prayed for and commissioned our Church School teachers, storytellers and doorkeepers. 

All the teachers were invited up to the front of the Church, in the midst of their students and the whole congregation. Even the new teachers, who tried to stay in their seats, could not escape Caitlin's invitation.

Once they were gathered, Caitlin led a congregational repeat-after-me prayer for the teachers. Then we asked God to bless them and support them in their ministry with the Church School.

Here are the prayer and the blessing for those who missed it on Sunday:

O Holy Wisdom,
you have called these people:
Erin, Amanda and Janet
Rhona, Bruce and Janice
Marilyn, Dorothy and Rebecca
Suretha and Deb
to be storytellers and doorkeepers.
May they continue
to nurture and teach
by their example
of forgiveness and love.
We pray for each one of the them
as they do this work
as the body of Christ in this place.

With hands extended in blessing, we then commissioned the teachers:

May they be blessed by the Creating Womb of God, who formed each of us in the divine image and calls us to holy work.

May they be blessed by Jesus the Word, who taught as a child in the temple and calls the little children to his side.

And may they be blessed by the Holy Spirit, Wisdom of God, who orders all things and teaches us the way of prudence, now and always.

Amen.