St. George's Servants Prep.

Duration:

1st Year Basic Service Program 2019/2020. Total of 39hrs, of which 27hrs are class time and 12hrs Practicum 1.
2nd Year Sunday School Service Program 2020/2021. Total of 32hrs, of which 20hrs are class time and 12hrs Practicum 2.
Total hours for the 2-year program is 71hrs, Plus 2 Retreats.

Grades and times:

10 to University: Fridays from 8:00pm to 9:00pm.

→ Youth meeting to include some servant's prep topics, but in an attractive way.

→ Group that's already serving will need to attend servant's prep, and only volunteer in the classes.

→ Differentiation between servant's and volunteers?

Retreats:

1 every Summer – for a day or two, will include additional topics which are relevant to servants prep.

Practicum:

Year 1, Practicum 1 for 12hrs.
Year 2, Practicum 2 for 12hrs.

  1. A list of approved church services for the practicum will be available for the youth. For example: Sunday School class, El Nady activities, Church services, and so on.

  2. The youth will have to fill a form with information on their chosen service, duration, date, responsible servant supervisor.

  3. The youth will be encouraged to provide a personal feedback on their practicum.

  4. The servant supervisor will provide a feedback on the youth.

Marketing:

George Shehata, Marina Beshara and Marie will develop a campaign to draw interest for the program before the information session.

Information session:

Friday July 19th, 2019 in the nady. Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st in classes.
Provides information and answer questions on the program.
A chance to promote the program.

→ Attendees: George Shehata, Nelly Menshawy and Abouna Armia

Registration:

1) Application form
2) Father of Confession approval form
From July 21st, 2019 to August 25th, 2019

Introduction session:

August 31st, 2019. A quick session about the rules and expectations from the youth during the program.
Will be asked to write a knowledge and a personality quizzes - Done in the form of games

→ Attendees: George Shehata, Nelly Menshawy, Amir Shehata, Fiby Atta and Abouna Armia

Start Date:

September 6th, 2019

Schedule:

Will send it separately

Links:

Will need Amirs' help (Please and Thank you) in setting links on the church website.
Schedule, Lesson material, Program overview, Speakers contact information (for questions on the material), Notices and Updates, contact us (that will be for me to answer questions), Practicum information, Forms and so on.
Would also like it to be accessible for the youth to fill up forms online.

Curriculum:

1st Year Basic Service Program (3 Modules)

Servants 101

  1. Characteristics of a servant.

  2. Characteristics of a servant 1

  3. Characteristics of a servant 2

  4. Characteristics of a servant 3

  5. The life of Thanksgiving

  6. The life of Humility

  7. The life of Obedience

  8. Spiritual warfare in the life of a servant

  9. Leading a child to Christ 2

  10. Luke warmness in service 1

  11. Serving SS kids outside of the church

Rituals

  1. Holy Liturgy 1

  2. Holy Liturgy 2

  3. Passion week 1 & 2

  4. Introduction to Patrology

Bible

  1. Presentation OT 101

  2. Presentation OT 102

  3. Creation (Genesis 1-11)

  4. Bible Prophets 1

  5. Bible Prophets 2

  6. Bible Hebrews 1

  7. Bible Hebrews 2

  8. Bible Gospels comparison

  9. Bible Acts 1

  10. Bible Acts 2

  11. Bible – The Pauline Epistles

  12. Poetry and so-called Apocrypha

2nd Year Sunday School Service Program (4 Modules)

History

  1. Martyrdom

  2. St. Anthony

  3. Ecumenical Councils

  4. St. Athanasius

  5. St. Mark

Apologetics

  1. Introduction to Apologetics

  2. The problem of evil

  3. Does God exist?

  4. Homosexuality

  5. Why believe in the Bible?

  6. Who is Jesus?

  7. Are there many ways to God?

Dogmatic Theology

  1. Intercession

  2. Salvation

  3. The Second Coming

  4. The Creed

Comparative Theology

  1. Church Cults

  2. Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Protestantism

  3. Orthodoxy and Catholicism

  4. Protestant presentation

Resources

  1. Suscopts.org

  2. Cccnet.ca

  3. St. Mary's Church, Raleigh, NC (very good for bible studies, talks, meetings, retreats, and so on)


Suggested List of Speakers:

Steve, George Shehata, Amir, John Rizk, Christine Abdel-Sayed, Nancy Azer, Father Bisenty, Botros Gerges  and Mary Gerges
I will need Father Armia's help in suggesting names

Evaluation Criteria:


Commitment

  1. Attendance in class and in Liturgies

  2. Attendance in Retreats

  3. General behaviour

  4. Regular confession

Knowledge

  1. Quizzes at the end of each module

  2. In-class participation

Exit evaluation

  1. Practicum. Evaluation report by the responsible servant overseeing the practicum.

  2. Self-evaluation by the youth

To do List:

  1. List of approved services for Practicum. (done)

  2. Practicum form (done)

  3. Application form (done)

  4. Father of Confession Approval form (done)

  5. Marketing for the program (on going)

  6. Prepare the Information session logistics. Speakers, food, forms, and so on. (on going)

  7. Prepare the Introduction session logistics. Speaker, rules, expectations, knowledge and personal quizzes. (to do)

  8. Links on the website and the ability to fill forms online. (to do)

  9. Finalize the schedule. (done)

  10. Finalize the class time and location. (done)

  11. Prepare feedback sheets for servants and youth in practicum. (to do)

  12. Agree on the evaluation criteria and assign points to it. (on going)

  13. Follow up with Steve on the progress of the youth attending his class. And obtain a list of youth attending with him and a list of potential servants graduating from his class. (to do)

  14. Assign a Prime Servant to be responsible for each module. He/She will assign lessons to speakers, invite speakers from outside the church on skype, prepare quizzes, communicate with me and so on. (to do)

  15. Prepare an approved speakers list and obtain their contact information. (on going)

  16. Meeting with Servants/speakers to agree on the module and class structure. How to give the lesson, resources, quizzes, prayer from agpeya at start of class. (to do)