Sunday Church School:  Christian education begins on Sunday morning at Orthros (Matins).  Orthodox Orthros is the "teaching" service of the Church. This is where we hear the Psalms, the hymns, canons, and readings of the Church pertaining to her theology, doctrines, and dogmas, but also about the lives of the Saints, those men, women, boys and girls who "ran the race" and completed it.

Orthros begins at 8:45 AM, and is attended by adults, teens, and older pre-teens.

Church School classes for K to 8th grades are held from 9:00 to 10:00 AM during Orthros (Matins) before the Divine Liturgy. In our Church School, children learn about Christ, His Apostles and Disciples, His Saints, and the Church which is His body. They learn not only about the Saints, but also learn more about the Divine Liturgy and the Epistle and Gospel readings of the day.

Adult Education:  Periodically, topical or special study classes are presented for older teens and adults. For a listing of current adult education opportunities, see "Announcements."

About Your Instructor and the Compiler of Your Study Guide.

After graduating from college, Dale Liid immediately embarked on a decade of missionary service to the Church in West Africa.  This decade began with a short-term assignment with Youth With A Mission in Senegal building a chapel, an aircraft hanger and digging of wells.

The next six years were spent in Burkino Faso working with Bible translators and national churches in the translation and production of their materials as well as the National Museum’s first international catalogue.  His missionary assignments concluded with the establishing of an outreach ministry and church among the nomadic Fulani tribesmen near the Sahara in northern Burkino Faso.

After several years as a teacher and pastor, Dale and his wife Yvonne took up residence in Jerusalem to complete their graduate studies at the Institute of Holy Land Studies (now the Jerusalem University College) in Archaeology and Historical Geography.  He was engaged by the Institute as the interim director of the short-term program which included field lectures on geography, history and archaeology.

Upon returning to their home in California, Dale authored 26 articles on geography and archaeology for Doubleday’s Anchor Bible Dictionary.  He has been called to Bulgaria for short-term teaching assignments, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the University of the Holy Land (Jerusalem) and their Center for the Study of Early Christianity.  He presently serves at St. Timothy Orthodox Church as director of religious education and is adjunct faculty for Fuller Theological Seminary in Northern California teaching Hebrew and Historical Geography.

Deborah Calhoun

Deborah Calhoun works with Dale and oversees the Sunday Church School program and teaches one of the grade-level classes.