William Jones
I am the Pastor of Youth & Discipleship at Talbot Street Church in London, Ontario. I'm passionate about coming alongside youth and young adults on their discipleship journey as they find and follow Jesus!
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Posted in: How Does Your Church Celebrate Your Students' Graduations?
For each of our Grade 8 & 12 graduates, we have parents submit a grad photo of their child that we mount in the centre of a plain white poster-board so that there are wide margins around the photo. For two Sundays in June, we have these out on a display where the congregation can write notes of congratulations, encouragement and blessing. After those two weeks, we present the card and a devotional to the students on the stage as part of morning worship. It has been an intentional practice that the congregation loves to partake in!
In our WonderKids (Sunday School) program, we celebrate the season of transition between going to WonderKids and being in church for the whole service. We present the grade 5 students with a devotional in WonderKids and share a Bible verse selected for them by their teachers. Many of our grade 6 students go on to be WonderKids helpers to continue that relationship - it has been beautiful to see!