Workshops for Children

1) Prayer That Changes the Heart: A Simple Rule for Real Life

Description:
Prayer is not only words—it is communion with God that heals the heart. This workshop offers a practical, realistic prayer rule rooted in the Agpeya, Psalms, and the Jesus Prayer, and helps us fight distraction and grow in repentance and peace.

Children – 3 takeaways

Goal: Learn 3 simple prayers: “Thank You / Help me / Forgive me.”

• Practice a short Psalm or Jesus Prayer with repetition and meaning.

• Understand: prayer is talking with Jesus who loves me and listens to me.

• “Talk to Jesus” prayer habits, simple Agpeya practice, gratitude + sorry + help prayers (with crafts/role-play).

2) Divine Liturgy as a Way of Life: From the Altar to the Street

Description:
The Divine Liturgy forms our mind, purifies our heart, and teaches us how to live. This workshop helps us participate with understanding, prepare well through repentance and confession, and carry the Eucharistic life into our homes, schools, and work.

Children – 3 takeaways

Goal: “What happens in church?”—guided tour of the Liturgy parts, matching games (altar items, vestments, icons).

• Understand the main parts of the Liturgy in simple steps (Word, Offering, Prayer, Communion).

• Learn reverence: how we stand, respond, and focus because we are with God.

• Connect church to life: “I take Jesus’ love with me to school and home.”

3) The Home as a Little Church: Marriage, Parenting, and Peace

Description:
God calls the Christian home to be a place of love, forgiveness, and holiness. This workshop strengthens marriage and parenting with a Coptic Orthodox spirit—communication, repentance, raising children in faith, and building a home that reflects Christ.

Children – 3 takeaways

Goal: Obedience, kindness, telling the truth, forgiving siblings—“how saints live at home.”

• Learn the “saintly habits” at home: kindness, sharing, obedience, truthfulness.

• Practice forgiveness: “I’m sorry / I forgive you / let’s start again.”

• Discover family as a gift: serving parents, helping siblings, loving like Jesus.

4) Living Orthodoxy in a Digital Age: Holiness, Purity, Peace, and Wisdom with Screens

Description:
Our phones can bless us or drain us. This workshop equips the Church to live Orthodox life in a digital world: guarding the heart, protecting purity, overcoming anxiety and comparison, and setting practical boundaries that lead to freedom—not guilt.

Children – 3 takeaways

Goal: Safe choices online, “what I watch matters,” simple rules (ask parents, no secrets, good content only).

• “Safe and holy choices”: what I watch and hear affects my heart.

• Simple rules: ask parents, no secrets, stop and tell, choose good content.

• Filling the heart: Scripture, prayer, stories of saints, and wholesome fun.