An array of Biblical stories and parables were brought to life across the nation with the celebration of Children's Sunday. 

The Monday following White Sunday is a national public holiday which annually is dedicated to the children of Samoa.  

It is an extra day of rest following the celebrations of White Sunday the day before, which is always marked on the second Sunday of October.

On that Sunday children dress in their best attire and perform for their families in church. 

It is a day for communities to acknowledge and celebrate their children, by hosting special programs during the services, which include scriptural recitations [“tauloto”], biblical story reenactments, and other creative performances. 

Prior to the events of the day, the children practice for several weeks and the older children are responsible for the day's sermon. 

The children are also given the responsibility of planning the church service, and accorded privileges normally reserved for elders, such as being the first to be served food during meals.

Following to'ana'i or a family feast and apart from being served first, in many families the children are also excused from chores.

The day is celebrated by Samoan congregations and families throughout the country, including by Samoan expatriate communities around the world.

For the Congregational Christian Church Samoa (C.C.C.S.) the theme for this year's White Sunday is, "A fallen world, deeply loved."

This theme echoed through the performances and dances on Sunday for all C.C.C.S. parishes nationwide, including the Faletagaloa parish. 

The theme is a reminder of the "fallenness of creation" said Reverend Vaueli Sanerivi of the C.C.C.S. Faletagaloa Safune.

"We are made for wholeness, but we are touched by brokenness, our own and others. The world is less than it should be. Sin and brokenness are realities. But if we’re looking for an excuse to judge our fellow sinners, we will not find it in Jesus."

And while most C.C.C.S. parishes celebrated the special Sunday wearing all white attires, the C.C.C.S. Sapapali'i in Savai'i celebrated the occasion in dedication to cancer survivors and the lives lost to cancer. 

Their church building was decorated in pink in support of "Pinktober."

Special messages and dedications were written on the banners hung outside of the church building at Sapapali'i "White Sunday inside is Pinktober outside."

The C.C.C.S. at Sapapali'i is known as the "Home of Christianity in Samoa" as it was where the C.C.C.S. church was accepted in 1830, which was brought by L.M.S. (London Missionary Societies) and accepted by Malietoa Vainu'upo of Sapapali'i.

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