Welcome:
I’m very pleased to welcome you to the Onondaga Hill Presbyterian Church. My name is Sarah Buckshot and I’m the youth educator of our Sunday School and Christian Education programs at the church. I have been with the church since July 2011 and I’m very excited to tell you about the programs that we have available.
Every Sunday during the school year we offer Sunday School classes for youth who are preschool to senior year in high school. We also offer an adult studies class at the same time. The Sunday School classes meet at 10:15 a.m. after services. We offer two different classrooms – a preschool class for children 3 years old to kindergarten and a “One Big Sunday School” class for all remaining students. We will add classes as the need arises. In 2024-2025, we will offer a Confirmation Class. In our classes, children will learn about the teachings of Jesus Christ, worship, take part in an array of activities and learn about mission work and giving back.
I would love to welcome your family to visit our church and visit a class. Also feel free to contact me with any questions, concerns or comments.
My email is ohpcyouth@yahoo.com and my phone number is 315-877-8271.
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Mark 10:14 — “Let the little children come to me…”
The preschool and kindergarten classroom is known as the Worship Center. This classroom is where children will begin to develop a basic foundation for Bible study and will learn the stories of Jesus Christ in creative and innovative ways.
This classroom may also be a child’s first experience with worship. During several months of the year children will sing with one of our praise team members and learn songs for two very important concerts. The students will begin learning Christmas songs in November and will perform them in service near Christmas. The children will also learn other worship and praise songs that will performed during a special service called Celebration Sunday, a service in May that is run 100 percent by Sunday School students.
During the school year the Worship Center students will also learn about giving back and helping others during our mission projects.
The Worship Center’s classroom teacher are Lou Ann Black and Tara Buckman. Lou Ann has been a teacher for more than 20 years
The students put on another incredible Celebration Sunday and they had a lot of fun. The beginning of this year had several challenges but many blessings. I’II explore them below…
Where you saw God working most significantly this past year:
The children that enter our classrooms each Sunday will always be the best and most significant representation of God’s Glory, but for me this year, it was the adult Christian Educators. I have to give special thanks to Lou Ann Black. When challenges arose this fall, Lou Ann jumped into action as a support, as a teacher, as a mentor, and as a friend. She is a blessing to this church and to me. I don’t know where I or this youth education program would be without her.
Specific accomplishments during 2024:
We had a successful second year in the Worship Center, as we taught 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds for the first time. We had an amazing Celebration Sunday. The Sunday School students did a fantastic job and the morning was very well received by the congregation. We launched a Toddler Time for children O-4 years old with their parents. It’s a work in progress but the Buckshot kids are loving it! We have an amazing Confirmation class with four dedicated students, two amazing teachers and four outstanding mentors!
Also, I prayed to God for a Confirmation teacher who would fit well with our amazing group of students. God delivered with Daniella Clark and Maggie Welch. They have been fantastic and they are making a difference every time they interact with our teens!
Where you pray God will be working in the coming year:
I pray that God will bring us more families, so that more children get to experience the love and joy that comes out of our classrooms! I pray that I can continue to be the Youth Educator here. I pray that our teens will stay Involved beyond confirmation and that they will become a fulfilling and motivating Teen Group in the coming school year.
Specific goals. hopes, aspirations & dreams for the coming year:
My goal is the same as my prayer and that is to see more families make OHPC their home. My goal is also to help in the process in any way that I can use my gifts in communication. Lastly, to find someone to sing with our littles! Interested?
My name is Sarah (Moses) Buckshot and I’ve been the youth educator since July 2011. I was born and raised in Nedrow and I graduated from Onondaga Central High School. I attended Syracuse University to study newspaper journalism, psychology and Native American studies. I earned my master’s degree from Syracuse University in 2010 with a degree in cultural foundations of education. I worked for The Post-Standard/Syracuse.com for 12 years as a breaking news/community reporter. In 2019, I left journalism and I became the public information specialist for the Baldwinsville Central School District. I’m also the Communications Coordinator for the Cayuga-Syracuse Presbytery. I became a mother in November 2021 when I welcomed identical twin girls and 15 short months later, I welcomed boy/girl twins in February 2023!