RE: Holiday
Restoration Campaign;
Teacher Reacher Packets1.
or Card Sets2..
Dear Pastor;
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I have
discovered a nice way to: 1) honor our church members who are teachers,
2) help our parents develop better relationships with their child's teachers,
and 3) provide legally teachable information about America's Christian
Holiday celebrations to our public school teachers and parents and children.
Gateways
to Better Education has two (2) programs to '
lovingly reach out to your child's teacher throughout the school year with
the help of the Teacher Reacher Packet.' ' It contains a parent-teacher
conference checklist to improve communication, a sheet to list prayer requests
for the teacher and classroom, two note cards to send encouraging words
to the teacher, and three Holiday Restoration Cards to help the teacher
understand how the religious aspects of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter
can be taught in the classroom. []
TEACHER REACHER PACKET PICTURE and CONTENTS []
Each eight-page holiday card uses a humorous, non-threatening story to
persuade the educator that teaching about the holiday is perfectly legal.
The cards include legal documentation to give the teacher confidence and
suggested lesson plan ideas that pass constitutional muster. They
also include the U.S. Department of Education's guidelines on the religious
rights of students at school, and they have a place for the parent to write
a personal note to the teacher.' Another
option is to purchase
Card Sets of the 3 different cards
and send them ourselves.
I thought
that our church could do what other churches have done to support our public
school parents and teachers. I thought that either the Sunday
School classes or our prayer partners who are praying for our schools might
like to sign & send these cards of encouragement.
THE TYPICAL
MINISTRY ACTIVITIES:
Teacher
Reacher, Option 1: The church buys and distributes the Teacher
Reacher Packets to our teachers and parents to build and encourage
relationships of our church members.
Action 1: The parents send the cards at the appropriate times
during the school year. And (or) the Sunday School class sends the
cards to their classmates who are public school teachers during that holiday.
For "When To start", see (www.Hisways.org/WhenTo/Teacher-Reacher-Cal.htm)
.
Teacher
Reacher, Option 2: The church buys 20 or more of the relationship
building Teacher Reacher Packets, shows the free video (5
minutes) and uses the display, posters & bulletin inserts to encourage
the project, to educate all of our members and to facilitate donations.
Action:
See
Action: 1.
Card
Sets, Option 3: The church buys and distributes the Card
Sets to our Teacher Prayer Partners or our parents & teachers
or our Sunday School classes. Action:
Same as Action:
1.
Card
Sets, Option 4: The church buys 20 or more of the Card
Sets, shows the free video (5 minutes) and uses the display, posters
& bulletin inserts to facilitate donations, encourage the use of the
packets and educate all our members about Christian Holidays in PS's.
Action:
Same
as Action: 1.
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