“The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him and delivers them” (Psalm 34:7). This is one of the Bible memory verses shared recently in online Sunday School. Every week our Parish Ed director mails a letter with an attached Sunday School paper and drawing sheets to our students. I compile a weekly Sunday School video for YouTube that gets embedded on our website next to the Sunday worship service video. The videos are hosted by my kids and include flannelgraph lessons from teachers, student-submitted videos, Bible books memorizing, and sometimes more singing and acting out Bible passages. May 17 is our last day of regular Sunday School videos for the school year. Here's the Sunday School video for May 10.

The “Our Heritage” Adult Study is every Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. via a Zoom link on our website, oursavioursaflctrf.com. This study examines the history and uniqueness of the AFLC and is led by Mr. Loiell Dyrud. Everyone is welcome! So far about half of the attendees are from our congregations with the other half from around the AFLC. The last Confirmation classes of the spring have been on Zoom too. Recordings of the Zoom lessons are provided to students who are not able to attend. The youth group has also used Zoom for Bible studies. All the learning curves have been a challenge, but these are ways the Lord has thus far helped us produce and distribute content to continue the educational ministry in our congregations.

The next challenge will be VBS, which we rescheduled from five days in June to three days in August. The format is yet to be determined, with some hope for an in-person element, but with most of the planning going toward mailed items, pick-up or droppedoff items, pre-recorded online videos, and Zoom sessions. Through a variety of methods, we hope to take the students near and far along for opening songs, craft instructions, Bible stories, and more. Prayer, creativity, brainstorming, and research is the plan for how to move forward.