News and Events!Appleton Free To Read™ Summer 2026 June 8 - July 10 Registration is now open for our annual summer literacy and enrichment program. The program serves rising 2nd and 3rd graders in Macon-Bibb Public Schools and is offered at no charge to students and their families. This year's theme will be "Taking Flight." Our reading books will help us explore the importance of teamwork, the need to recognize and manage our anger, how to be kind to friends and strangers, how to be a good friend, and how to help our families. We'll also study how birds, bees, and butterflies use their wings to fly, and we'll learn how airplanes and space ships take flight to leave the earth's surface. Our afternoon enrichments will include art; the science of rockets and outer space; African and Afro-Caribbean stories; birds, bugs and plants in Ms. Julie's garden; Native American folktales; African dance; and field trips to the Museum of Aviation, the Planetarium at the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Dickey Farms, and the Public Library. In addition to our staff of classroom teachers and assistants, our certified reading specialist will evaluated the readings levels of all of our students using Orton-Gillingham multi-sensory phonics techniques and help catch our kids up in their reading levels with one-on-one assistance. We'll also have a family therapist to help address student anxiety and trauma. Thanks to extra financial support, we are adding both a speech therapist and an occupational therapist as well as some individual therapy sessions to provide wrap-around care to our children. |
The mission of Appleton Episcopal Ministries is to share God's love by partnering as parishes in the Middle Georgia Convocation of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta to promote the health, safety, education, and well-being of children and families. Those parishes include All Angels, Eatonton; St. Stephen's, Milledgeville; Christ Church, Macon; St. Paul's, Macon; St. Francis, Macon; All Saints, Warner Robins; St. Christopher's, Perry; St. Luke's, Fort Valley; St. Andrew's, Fort Valley; and St. Mary's, Montezuma. In 2017, The Episcopal Church designated Appleton Episcopal Ministries as an official Mission Enterprise Zone in recognition of its convocational approach to ministry. Appleton's headquarters is located at St. Paul's Church in Macon, on the 1870 campus of the original Appleton Church Home. Canon Julie Groce is the Missioner and Corley Peth is the Program Director.
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