Education Programs

Children’s Sunday School

St. Augustine’s provides Christian education for children during the school year. Classes meet downstairs in Benton Chapel at 10:45 a.m. For more information, contact Susan Sluser at ssluser@gmail.com or 507-7003.

Thank you in advance to the wonderful folks who are working with our young people this year.  Please let them know how much we appreciate them!

3yrs-5yrs                         Sarah Yandell and Melanie Murphy
1st -3rd grade                    Lori Condon and Mary Murphy
4th-5th grade                     Jennifer Bostwick-Owens and Katha Raulston

Adult Christian Education

Adults meet for Christian education on Sundays at 10:45 a.m. downstainrs in Benton Chapel. Topics range from a discussion of Paul Tillich’s book Dynamics of Faith to Hindu-Christian dialogue.

Current Adult Series (April - May 2008)

April 6: Members of the St. Augustine's Education for Ministry (EFM) group will talk about the program and their experiences in it, why they were initially drawn to it and what they have gotten from it. Despite the name, EFM is not a preparation for ordained ministry, but a program of study and theological reflection for lay people. Its premise is that all baptized Christians are called to ministry, and that ministry happens every day, in all of our interactions. EFM helps us to be more effective at it. The St. A's group is also a wonderful small community; we support each other and laugh a lot. To find out more, come to the adult class after the service on Sunday, April 6. If you cannot make it that morning, contact Barbara Ball at benewman@bellsouth.net or 356-8334.

April 13 - start of a four week series discussing The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal. Amazon.com's editorial review says, "Author Simon Weisenthal recalls his demoralizing life in a concentration camp and his envy of the dead Germans who have sunflowers marking their graves. At the time he assumed his grave would be a mass one, unmarked and forgotten. Then, one day, a dying Nazi soldier asks Weisenthal for forgiveness for his crimes against the Jews. What would you do? This important book and the provocative question it poses is birthing debates, symposiums, and college courses. The Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Primo Levi, and others who have witnessed genocide and human tyranny answer Wiesenthal's ultimate question on forgiveness."

Education for Ministry

Education for Ministry – or EFM – is a program of theological education-at-a-distance of the School of Theology of the University of the South. Students sign up one year at a time for this four-year program. It covers the basics of a theological education in the Old and New Testaments, church history, liturgy, and theology.

St. Augustine’s EFM group meets once a week (except summer) under the guidance of a trained mentor. For more information, contact Barbara Ball at benewman@bellsouth.net.

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