Has it really been five years?

Has It Really Been Five Years?

Well, the answer, I guess, is that it has!

Remarkably, Sunday School at Trinity Lime Rock -- what we were talking about a few years ago -- is still a going concern.  We have continued to operate 52 weeks a year (more or less -- we always have a couple of unplanned "no days" a year when there are simply no kids in the building.  The routine is still Sunday School on Sunday mornings during the normal school year, plus Summer Sports during the Summer months, when nobody has Sunday School.  Some months we have a Youth Sunday, when there's no Sunday School but when the kids are in church, and depending on who gets cold feet any particular Youth Sunday, we may have kids assisting as Ushers, doing the readings, and even serving at the altar.

We started keeping a count of how many people under the age of 18 were present in the building each Sunday morning.  The number isn't exactly huge, but when you compare it with the attendance of young people at other houses of worship in our area, it is downright spectacular.  Young people in our area do not have much to do with church anymore, sadly.

We count ourselves lucky.  We work on encouraging the kids we have, and we encourage them to take more and more responsibility, both for themselves at church, and for telling us how they want church to interact with them.  They surprise us regularly.

For example, the previous tranche of kids thought that the red streamers that come out every Pentecost were hopelessly uncool.  This group thinks they are great.

And we see some interest in sports!  Here are some of the kids running towards the soccer pitch of bygone years.  It was great to see, and we hope that someday we're back with a virtual mob scene on the soccer field!  We are definitely not giving up!