Summit seeks participants for children’s Easter play

By JAson klAiBER Staff WritEr

Summit Church is putting out a call for children who are willing and able to participate in its upcoming Easter-themed production.

The church is planning to pull off a dramatic program titled “An Easter Play: A Child’s Perspective,” which will take place on Sunday, April 9 starting at 11:15 a.m. as a segment of the parish’s Easter morning services. After worship time upstairs with their families, the children will gather and perform in the downstairs community room.

The church, located at 21 Lincklaen St. in Cazenovia, is asking for local parents and other adults to assist in recruiting cast members by informing their own kids of the play and by sharing the word with neighborhood children.

The suggested age range for kids wanting to get involved is kindergarten through sixth grade, but they will need to find proper transportation to the roughly hour-long

11:15 a.m. rehearsals that are held during Sunday school sessions between now and the Passion Week performance.

Theresa Roberts, the children’s ministry director, said the participating kids can be residents of any area as long as they can be available to rehearse.

Though the roles for most of the main characters are already filled at this point, the church intends to create enough speaking and non-speaking parts in the ensemble to match the interest level. Roberts said shyer children not used to being “front and center” can portray angels in the background or members of a crowd in period-appropriate costumes if they wish.

“The word ‘audition’ makes it sound like you have to have skills as a thespian and that you’re fighting for a spot, but we’re not requiring Broadway experience and we’re looking at it as all are welcome,” she said.

Roberts said the children do not need to be Summit churchgoers to join in on the play or even attendees of any church for that matter.

SubmittEd photoS summit Church in Cazenovia is looking for participants for its children’s Easter production.

“It’s not a lifelong commitment to the church, but you’d be helping us out for the Easter season and we hope you get something out of it,” she said.

The play retells the traditional account of Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the viewpoint of a child of Mary Magdalene. As the events unfold—from the discovery that Jesus’ body was missing from the tomb to his rise from the grave and his appearance in front of the disciples— the story adopts a perspective of “preciousness and innocence” while being stripped down to its essence according to Roberts.

“It’s in the eyes of a young child following his mother around and observing what has happened and experiencing secondhand the emotions his mother experienced,” Roberts said. “The message is powerful, and we’re hoping that you’ll go away taking on a renewed point of view.”

Andrew LaTeer, a pastor at Summit Church and another leader of the production, said the play will stress the importance of having the humble faith of a child as the Bible says in the Gospel of Matthew. LaTeer said inviting more children to partake in the play will draw more families to see their young ones perform as well, thus a broader impact while expressing the Easter resurrection story.

On top of writing the material for the program, LaTeer has been directing

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For More Information, Email Bill Dolly At: wadolly@yahoo.com the rehearsals. He has also made an effort to create comfortable parts for newcomers to the cast while pitching a selection of ideas to the Sunday school class to incor- porate their input. “I think that helped tremendously because the kids are excited about it,” Roberts said. “That’s all thanks to Andrew and his way with working with the children.”

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Summit Kids, the children’s ministry at the church, is the group at the center of the production. That ministry is devoted to Bible-based teaching by way of methods like object lessons. Anyone willing to help out for the church’s Easter production can contact Theresa Roberts at 716-269-4112 and theresa@summitchurchny.com or Andrew LaTeer at 607-371-3411 and mrajlateer@ gmail.com.

Ghanaian born organist, Augustine Sobeng, was named The Diapason’s 2021 class of 20 under 30. A graduate of Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University, he is now a DMA candidate in Organ Performance at Eastman School of Music.

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Daylight saving time

Between March 11 and 12 our clocks will click ahead an hour as we spring ahead to observe daylight saving time.

Almost as long as the tradition of springing ahead and falling behind an hour has been observed in the United States it has been a topic that people have had mixed opinions about.

Some will argue that they like the way these changes adjust when the sun rises and sets and the length of the days these changes offer.

Others have argued it is an outdated and illogical practice that actually has negative effects that studies indicate have a negative impact on health.

Some argue that these changes disrupt circadian rhythms which can last for weeks and even have a negative affect on heart health and sleep patterns and its efficiency.

Connections have also been found connecting these changes to increased traffic accidents.

While days inherently get longer and shorter due to the tilt of the Earth relative to the sun, it is believed people have long adjusted how they utilize the daylight hours according to the season.

A popular story goes that Ben Franklin first proposed the idea in 1784, when he served as envoy to France, when he wrote a satirical article suggesting waking up earlier would save on the usage of candles in the summer and gave rise to his proverb that being early to bed and early to rise makes people healthy, wealth and wise.

Other versions of the origins of the practice indicate the changes are beneficial to farmers. Though some sources indicate these stories don’t hold much truth and in some instances farmers lobbied against the practice.

Still others say the changes have an impact on commerce and some studies do indicate that with longer daylight hours more shopping does take place. But in the age of online shopping this may have less bearing than it once did.

In 1918 the United States adopted the practice as did many other countries around the world.

By the 1960s it was common practice in many places and was believed to help conserve energy with longer daylight hours into the evening resulting in less electrical usage for lighting. Though even this has its nay sayers with some studies indicating the energy savings are negligible.

But since then the practice has seen many changes, adjustments and even repeals in some countries including the U.S., with even the date when clocks move forward of backward changing over time.

During the Nixon presidency, the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Act was put in place to address the energy crisis at the time.

This received a great deal of backlash as people complained of commuting and kids going to school in the dark during the winter months and the act was repealed in 1974.

Other countries have also abandoned the practice at various times and Hawaii and Arizona do not observe it at all.

While it is easy to observe that the U.S. Senate rarely agrees on any issue unanimously, a recent proposal to move to making daylight time permanent has received a rare bit of unanimous support. But it must first pass the house and be signed by the president.

If adopted the United States would observe daylight time all year.

As it has throughout its history, no matter if this proposal is signed into law or not, it will likely have its supporters and detractors, but as the world changes and the way we work and shop and live our lives changes, it is at least worth having the discussion about considering other changes such as these to see how practices best fit out lives today.