Summer Season Sunday School (SSSS)

June 1 through August 24 

This year’s SSSS Curriculum is ‘The Fruit of the Spirit’. God gives us the fruit of the Spirit to help us show  others what His love looks like. According to Galatians 5:22-23 (NRSV): “By contrast, the fruit of the Spir it is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no  law against such things.” 

Each week we will explore a different fruit of the Spirit and we will wrap up the summer by looking at  the Beatitudes. Being a Christian, we want to cultivate this fruit in us to live our lives the way that God  wants us to. The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:2-12) are similar in that they talk about the qualities that God wants a Christian to have and how we are ‘blessed’ when we exhibit those qualities. Through these  blessings, we will experience ‘perfect joy’. In this same passage, we are called to be ‘the salt of the  earth’ (Matthew 5:13) and ‘the light of the world’ (Matthew 5:14-16). The fruit of the Spirit and the atti tudes listed in the Beatitudes, enable us to be that salt and light to others. 

As with past summers this year’s SSSS will be a ‘grab and go’ format. That is, all materials will be provided so all the ‘teacher’  has to do is familiarize themselves with it beforehand and teach. 

If you don’t want to commit to being a teacher throughout the year, but would like to jump in and teach one week this  summer please contact Marilyn Fineman at marilyn@fineman.me .