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Lay Speakers and Christian Educators
As you work with teacher recruitment, have you considered lay speakers? When you need substitute teachers, especially on short notice, could one of your lay speakers help?
Another Opportunity: Open House Through Your Sunday School
The start of a new calendar year offers your congregation another opportunity to continue or initiate the theme of "Open House" in your Sunday school and through the Christian education ministry in general.
Ideas for Celebrating Open House Month Through the Sunday School
September is Open House Month in The United Methodist Church. What a perfect opportunity for starting new classes, promoting the Sunday school and other settings for learning and growing as disciples, and inviting members of the community and the congregation to join a class or small group!
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions that we receive.
Book Review: I Knew Them All by Heart
Myrtle Felkner offers us her masterful storytelling in this short volume that is very long on wisdom.
Book Review: Sacred Challenge: Blazing a New Path for the Sunday School of the Future
By virtue of baptism, every Christian has the sacred challenge to develop his or her own life of faith to become a mature follower and disciple for the transformation of the world.
Lay Speakers Teach Adults (Advanced Course) Now Available From Discipleship Resources
Lay Speakers Teach Adults is prepared with the requirements for the lay speaking advanced course in mind, but is an appropriate teacher-training tool for people who are not lay speakers.
Me? A Theologian?
All Christian believers are called to be theologians because if we love God and wish to serve God, we must think about who God is and what God does. (Posted May 20, 2005.)
Leaders and Coaching
Coaching is practice between a coach and one or more leaders who establish an agreement about what they want to accomplish. (Posted 3-4-05)
Teachers and Coaching
The coach and teacher are essentially peers, not "master and student." (Posted 3-4-05)
Keep the End in Mind: A New Teacher's Primer on Planning
Plan with the end in mind. Before plunging in, consider thinking through what you want to accomplish.
The Pastor as Educator
Pastors, I encourage you to consider your role as "parson" and to build up the system of discipleship in your congregation by taking seriously the gifts and abilities you bring to the ministry of Christian education and formation.
Help! I'm the New Christian Educator!
Uniting Knowledge and Vital Piety: Linking Learning Styles with Our Spiritual Types
You may already have learned about and implemented in your education and formation ministry the seven ways of learning. Did you know that each of us has a preferred style or means of relating to God as well?
Basic Spiritual Formation Workshop (pdf format)
You will need Adobe Reader to view this document.
Storytelling for Musicians and Sunday School Teachers
This PowerPoint presentation is intended to help teachers and musicians — especially those who work with children — in developing their storytelling skills and in finding opportunities to use storytelling in classes and rehearsals.
Layering Bible Study: A Workshop or Program
This layered approach to Bible study may be used as a training or program idea with teachers and other leaders involved in Christian education and formation.
(The First) 45 Guiding Questions to Assess the Education Ministry of the Church
Use these questions, and others you identify, to assess your understanding and practice of the ministry of Christian education and formation in your church.
Worship Resources for Promotion Sunday and Rally Day
Listening to Teach, Speaking to Learn
A critically important work for leaders in local congregations is to learn to listen. There is healing in listening. There is connection and community in listening. And there is learning in listening.
Invitation and Discipleship
Current studies indicate that personal invitation continues to be the way most people become part of a Christian education class or other small group.
Teaching in the One-Room Sunday School
The Anatomy of a Sunday School
It is virtually impossible for anyone to go to school without studying some kind of anatomy. . . . Take some time to look at the anatomy of your one-room Sunday school class.
Life-Long Learning
What do you think would happen in a local church if every leader — clergy and lay alike — assumed that whatever information and knowledge had been attained in seminary, college, trade school, or high school was sufficient for whatever task was at hand?
Teacher Tips: Some Teaching/Learning Ideas
Check out this handy list of teaching activities! Most are suitable for teens and older.
(Click here for pdf version of this article)
What Should We Do in Our Christian Education Program?
Have you been in planning sessions that began with the question, "What should we do?" or a similar question? Typically, that question refers to specifics: programs, curriculum, opening exercises, group or age-level events, and so on. These can be very good things, but we need to have a plan.
EI? . . . EI! . . . Oh! Emotional Intelligence and Christian Formation
Christian Education Week Archive
Team Teaching: A Partnership That Works!
Learning Centers: Self-Directed Learning Through Active Involvement
5-4-3-2-1 . . . Blast Off!
Selecting Bibles for Elementary Children
Examining Attitudes
Support Your Local Teachers
When Children Are Absent
Seven Ways to Say Thank You
A Year in the Life of a Sunday School Teacher: Fantasy or Reality?
Listening: A Planning Tool for Teacher Development
Planning for Christian Education: Focus on the System
The Ministry of Christian Education
Old Friends, New Friends
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