Pet Blessing this Sunday & Kanuga Photos

This is a reminder that this Sunday at 9AM there will be a Pet Blessing in Ellis Hall. This is a great opportunity to take your kids with you to the service so they can experience corporate worship in a relaxed, informal environment. There will be no Little Saints Church or Little Saints Sunday School this week because of the Pet Blessing.

Our next get together will be Nov 13 at All Saints. While the kids play some of us will be helping make lunches for our Habitat volunteers. I am going to be working at the site this Saturday so I will have a better idea what we need to do for lunches. Next week I will ask for volunteers for that day to bring ingredients and help make lunches, while other parents watch the kids. We may even be able to get some of the older kids involved in assembling the lunch bags. If you want to volunteer to help the actual build over the next two months there is still time to sign up. Check it out here.

Another parish retreat to Kanuga has come and gone. It was amazing. The weather was ideal and no trips to Hendersonville E.R. for the Frilingos family. Thanks to Rob and Laurie Burlington for organizing childcare on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Beth and I helped out by leading a hike of 4 year olds around Lake Kanuga. With consistent headcounts and help from Luke Barton, Michael Aiken, Kevin York-Simmons, the Jackoniski's, and the Mauriello's. we brought 18 kids safely back.

Below are some photos from the weekend. It is difficult to make out faces, but the beauty of the camp is evident.

Beautiful Morning

What a great morning we had last Saturday at All Saints. We had a nice group out to the playground for a few hours of fun. Enjoy the photos. Our next get-together will be in November, but I look forward to seeing many of you at Kanuga in a few weeks.










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Short reminder. . .

Just a reminder that this Saturday we will be getting together at All Saints in the playground from 10AM-12PM. It looks like it will be a beautiful morning. We should have the flower showers working so you may want to bring a change of clothes. Please bring your own snacks or lunch. Please join us if you are able.

I hope many of you were able to attend the Celebration of Ministries on Sunday. What a wonderful morning. Even with all of that going on there was still a magical moment during the 9AM service that surpassed even the excitement and buzz of the banners and the beginning of the program year.

Did you see it? Were you there?

It was during the offering when as the Children's Choir sang. They got through a few verses and were then joined by the Adult Choir, who had been waiting by their sides. The voices combined and I remembered: He called a child, whom he put among them, ³and said, ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."-Matthew 18:2-3

Reminder to register online today!

And join us next week for Celebration of Ministries Sunday and the start of the Little Saints Nursery (birth to 4-years old) program year!

You can register online by clicking "here". Then click on children's formation and follow the directions to register.

If you have older children in the Journey into the Bible (K-5th grade) program, you can register them here at the same time!

See you Sunday, September 12th!

Little Saints 2010-2011 Online Registration

Registration for Sunday morning nursery care and 2, 3 and 4-year old Sunday School classes is newly available online. Go to www.allsaintsatlanta.org. Click on Formation and then click on Children's Formation on the far right. You will see a yellow box with an underlined "click here" where you will be linked to register your child (children) for Sunday morning.

For those of you who were here last year, you will recall that we have previously filled out and turned in paper forms. It is very exciting that we have this available online this year as will it will help the church develop a database, so that you will not have to re-register your child in the future.

This is a QUICK and EASY process, so please do not delay and register early (today!), so that we can have an accurate list of all children, birth through pre-K in our Little Saints program by the start date, Sunday, September 12th.

The 2010-2011 program year looks like this:

8:30-12:30 traditional nursery care for children birth through pre-K.
8:30-9:15 arrival, drop-off and greet
9:15-9:35 Little Saints Church (for 3's and 4's) & Sunday School for 2's
9:35-10:05 Sunday School and snack for 3's and 4's.

Wandering Ministrels will again provide music for all children in the common area between the services. We continue to seek youth interested in supporting this ministry. If you have a musical gift or just love singing or playing an instrument, your support of this program is welcome as well.

The classrooms this year will look like this:

Infants (newborns to walkers)
Walkers (walking to turning 2)
Twos (children who have turned 2 during the program year)
Threes (children who have turned 3 prior to 9/1/2010 and who will turn 4 after 9/1/2010)
Fours (children who have turned 4 prior to 9/1/2010)

Thank you for registering! We welcome ideas to continually improve the programming for our Little Saints. Please feel free to comment here or join us for our next committee meeting tentatively scheduled for Sunday, October 17th at 4pm in the Horseshoe Room on the third floor of Egleston Hall.

Be well,

Beth Frilingos
Little Saints Sunday Morning Volunteer Coordinator

New Program Year, New Name

I hope everyone had a wonderful summer. We spent much of the summer in the pools around Decatur and both kids seemed to grow as fast as the front lawn. Paul started Pre-K last week and I am sure many of you are reaching some milestones as well.

We have changed our name to the Little Saints Foyer Group to reflect our connection to the Little Saints program that is currently being created at All Saints. The Little Saints program is comprised of all the opportunities and events geared towards children aged infant to pre-K at All Saints. Our foyer group will still be comprised of casual get-togethers several times a year.

Our next Little Saints Foyer Group will be Saturday, September 18, from 10AM-12PM at All Saints. We will be using the playground and for those new to the nursery we can open up the Pritchett Center for a short tour of the building. Let us know if you and your family can make it. Contact bluefrilingos@juno.com.

Volunteers Needed
Junior Children's Church will now be known as Little Saints Church and as always people are needed to lead both the story and worship in the common room and the activity planned for 3 & 4 year old classes.

We also need people who are willing to volunteer as Red Aprons prior to the 9AM or 11:15 service to help welcome all our Little Saints and especially help newcomers find the right place for their little saint. This position is very rewarding and volunteers can make it to the service as well.

All of these volunteer positions are rotating so you will not be needed every week.
If you are interested in volunteering and have not already been contacted please send an email to bluefrilingos@juno.com as soon as possible. We are scheduling for the fall right now, so don't delay. This is a great opportunity to get godparents involved if you are bold enough to ask.

Also, if you you or somebody you know likes singing, playing instruments (guitar, banjo, fiddle, etc.) we really want to add to the Wandering Minstrels this fall. They perform on program weeks starting around 10:30AM and go for about 15-20 minutes. Songs and music will be provided. This is important not only for the little saints, but newcomers especially appreciate that all ages are welcomed to the sing-a-long.

Coming Up at All Saints
There is a lot coming up at All Saints and I want to highlight a few things that you won't want to miss:

On Sunday, August 22nd, there will be a blessing of the backpacks at the 9AM service. If your kids take a backpack to pre-school or pre-K, this is a great event for them.

Cherub choir (open to children age 4 by September 1st, 2010) begins Wednesday, August 25 from 4PM to 4:30PM and continues weekly.

Also starting on August 25, a parenting class is being offered in the evening. You can read more of the details here.

Men's Supper: Low Country Boil, Sunday, August 29-This has become an annual tradition and it would be great to get a lot of fathers with young children out this year. You can learn more about the event and sign up for it here. The evening commences with Evening Prayer in the chapel.

Of course, there is much more coming up. Check the website and Sunday bulletin regularly. We will continue to draw your attention to significant dates as they approach.

Hope to see you soon on a Sunday morning or other upcoming event. Be well.

Wanted to get some photos up from our last get together. We had a great time on a hot day in the All Saints' Playground. The kids ran around in the water and the grown-ups chatted and moved our chairs to stay in the shade. Thanks for coming.

We will probably be meeting again towards the end of August as we gear up for the new program year at All Saints. You will get a message about it soon and keep checking the Sunday bulletin. Our group will become more closely connected part of "All Saints' Little Saints" the new name for all things infant, toddler, and pre-K at All Saints.

We were happy to hear about the safe birth of Isabel Kelley Mauriello, daughter of Keith and Kelley on Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Congratulations.

We pray that everybody remains safe and happy this summer as you endure our hometown heat or travel to see family and friends. If you remember, send a postcard to All Saints to let us know where you've been on vacation.

Enjoy the photos from our last event: