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Teach the Faith

Now that we are a couple of months into our Sunday Church school year, I want to ask, “Are we teaching the Faith?” Our task is to hand on the contents of the Orthodox Christian Faith to another...
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By Rev. Dr. Tony Vrame 10/12/2018 religious education teachers orthodox theology teaching methods History History 952 Views
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Think Outside the Box for a Renewed Sunday Church School Year

  It’s that time of year again! The time of year where you are starting to realize that summer vacation is over and that the Sunday Church School year is starting up any day now!...
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By Angeliki Constantine 09/19/2018 religious education History History 2623 Views
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Planning your Parish Adult Education Program

Because so much of parish life functions like the school year (September through May, or whatever it is in your area!) now’s the time of year to start planning and organizing the program ideas and...
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By Rev. Dr. Tony Vrame 06/27/2018 religious education adult education ministry planning History History 1379 Views
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Adult Education in Practice: The Case of Emerging Adults

Let’s consider a concrete example of what’s been written so far about adult education. To summarize, the earlier posts discussed that there are different ways of organizing content in adult...
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By Rev. Dr. Tony Vrame 03/16/2018 religious education young adult parish life adult education emerging adults History History 3572 Views
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Meeting the Needs of Adult Learners

Meeting the Needs of Adult Learners: One Size Does Not Fit All In my previous post, I discussed three different ways to develop an adult education program in a parish. They were Learning the...
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By Rev. Dr. Tony Vrame 02/23/2018 religious education parish life adulthood adult education programs History History 3112 Views
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What is Adult Education?

With Great Lent approaching, many parishes will offer a Lenten lecture series or other educational programs for the faithful. These are often held after Pre-sanctified Liturgy on Wednesday night...
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By Rev. Dr. Tony Vrame 01/31/2018 religious education family ministry adult education History History 2547 Views
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In Praise of Sunday Church School

Sunday school is perhaps the single largest program in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. On a national level, assuming 550 parishes with an average of 30 students per Sunday school...
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By Rev. Dr. Tony Vrame 09/29/2017 religious education teachers parish life sunday school History History 4189 Views
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Questions, Questions, Questions

“After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions; and all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.”...
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By Rev. Dr. Tony Vrame 09/20/2017 religious education teachers youth ministry History History 3213 Views
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Another Church School Year Begins

While it’s still early August, and many families are on vacation, and parishes are still on their “summer schedules” or still working on their Festivals, another Sunday Church School year is just...
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By Rev. Dr. Tony Vrame 08/03/2017 religious education sunday church school supervisors History History 2813 Views
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Being a Lenten Apprentice

Great Lent is often called a time to return to basics because we focus on central dimensions of our Christian faith: we read from Scripture to remind us of the need for a Savior; we become more...
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By Rev. Dr. Tony Vrame 02/23/2017 religious education great lent parish life practice apprentice History History 4637 Views
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