As I begin to settle in and get to know the wonderful staff, parents, and children, I have been thinking to myself that there couldn’t have been a better time to start than this month. My first couple of weeks have been a balancing act of becoming acquainted with the day-to-day activities of the preschool…
Learning and Confronting our Ignorance and Fears by The Rev. Mawethu Ncaca, Associate Rector I’m pretty sure if you flip to page 411 in your physical copy of The Book of Common Prayer, the pages of the Pastoral Office would probably be pretty clean. This makes sense as other pages, like the Holy Eucharist and…
Ephesians 5:1-2 Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. In this verse, Paul describes a fragrant offering to God not so much as a scent but as evidence…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The holidays are here with all the decorations, twinkling lights, traditions old and new, special foods to feast on, and visiting with family and friends. Accompanying all these good things are the stresses of keeping up with the traditions, the shopping and cooking for the feasts, and the…
Did you ever get the feeling that everyone else got an owner’s manual for life, but it must have been handed out on a day you were absent from school, and you didn’t get a copy? Things that should have been absolute and finished by this stage of life still feel like they are continually…
Next week 59 little children will line up to start St. John’s Preschool’s new school year. Many have never been in any preschool program before or even been separated from their parents. There may be tears, some from the children and some from the parents. When I was raising my own little ones, I never really could appreciate…
We recently celebrated the Moving On Ceremony at the preschool and of course I got emotional. Saying goodbye is difficult after you have poured so much into such sweet relationships. It’s not just letting go of the children that we have cared for so much but also the parents/families that become such a special part of…
I arrive at the preschool early each morning to a quiet building filled with promise. The promise of the joy that will fill each classroom when the teachers and students arrive. I walk down the hall and begin to pray. I pray for the health and safety of all our students and teachers. I pray for the teachers…
My favorite memories as a child were back to school shopping for new school supplies, new school clothes, and of course the change of the seasons. We are back to a new year at the preschool with 65 students attending. We have 31 families that are new to St. John’s Preschool this year, many of which…
Spring has indeed arrived here at St. John’s Preschool. Our classes are taking walks around our beautiful grounds on scavenger hunts looking for signs of spring, bugs, flowers, and birds. The Three and Four Year Old classes will receive two lessons from the Creation Care Committee. This week the lesson was on “Birds and Their Beaks” and next…