Historian Annual Report 1986-87
HISTORIAN ANNUAL REPORT 1986-87 The year 1986-87 may be the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese calendar, but at First Church, Montclair, a more appropriate term might be "The Year of the Child." The first Vacation Church School in decades was held during August. The staff, comprised of experienced teachers, including Park and Normie Diekerson, and other volunteers from the congregation, was under the direction of Allen Benner, a student at Lancaster Seminary. Approximately three dozen two-to-nine-year-olds attended. In the fall the Mothers' Morning Out program began its fifth year at full enrollment, and on Sunday the church school classes, directed by Scott and Shari Coronis, were enthusiastically attended. Normie Diekerson even introduced the older children to the use of the computer, a skill that many of their parents have not yet acquired. A special event in the life of the church was the December ordination and installation of Rich Pfeiffer as associate minis...