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Resurrection of the Lord Year A:  April 12, 2020 First Reading:  Acts 10:34-43 Mooshka, A Quilt Story by Julie Paschkis (Written for ages 4 – 8) Comment: Karla has an unusual quilt she named Mooshka.  It had been sewn by her grandmother with scraps of fabric that she called

Baptism of the Lord 1st Sunday after the Epiphany Year A:  January 12, 2020 First Reading:  Isaiah 42:1-9 One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recyling Women of Gambia by Miranda Paul (Written for ages 4-8) Comment:  For 39 chapters of Isaiah the prophet has had mostly bad

Resurrection of the Lord/Easter Year B:  April 1, 2018 First Reading: Acts 10:34-43 Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson (Written for ages 5-8) Comment: Peter preaches about Jesus Christ, telling everyone who listens that Jesus Christ was, in fact, a message himself—a message of

Year A: January 8, 2017 Baptism of the Lord First Reading: Isaiah 42:1-9 You Wouldn’t Want to be a Suffragist! by Fiona Macdonald (Written for 8-11) Comment: The subtitle of this book is: A Protest Movement That’s Rougher Than You’d Expected. The Suffragist and the Suffragette

Easter Year C:  March 27, 2016 First Reading:  Acts 10:34-43 Horace and Morris but Mostly Delores by James Howe (Written for ages 4-8) Comment:  In her commentary on this text, Professor Mitzi J. Smith writes, “Something in Peter died that day and something in Peter resurrected.

Easter Sunday Year B:  April 5, 2015 First Reading:  Isaiah 25:6-9 I am Invited to a Party! by Mo Willems    (Written for ages 4-8) Comment:   Gerald and Piggie in Mo Willem’s I am Invited to a Party! dream up what the party might be they are attending. Gerald decides it will be

1st Sunday of Easter Year A:  April 20, 2014 First Reading: Acts 10:34-43 Peace Warriors by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Written for ages 10-14) Comment:  In Peter’s speech to the Gentiles, he tells the Gentiles that they are to “preach to the people, and testify that he is the one

BAPTISM OF THE LORD Year A: January 12, 2014 First Reading: Isaiah 42:1-9 The Little Duck by Judy Dunn (Written for ages 3-7) Comment:  Stephanie A. Paulsell writes, “True leadership protects what is weak until it is strong enough to stand”, and “this is the kind of leadership we

Easter Sunday Year C:  March 31, 2012 First Reading: Isaiah 65:17-25 Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Written for ages 13 and up) Comment: New creation is the hope that we cling to, and the hope that shapes lives bent towards justice, even as we continue to live in a world filled

Easter Sunday Year B:  April 8, 2012 First Reading: Isaiah 25:6-9 The Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Written for ages 9-14) Comment: In this text there is a vision of the hope that sustains us when we are journeying through a valley full of suffering and death.  The