Cokesbury offers these children and youth curriculum for small membership churches -
Children
The One Room Sunday School is written for the unique needs of a small children's Sunday School using material from the graded Exploring Faith. Each quarter packet comes complete with leader guide, classroom packet and music CD.
Live B.I.G. One Big Room DVD Kit contains 12 DVDs, one per month from September through August, plus one Fall Leader’s Guide that is reproducible and one Fall Kids’ Book (order additional books for each child in your class). Available for One Big Room for small number of children of varying ages in one classroom. Leader's guides are available for each quarter.
BibleZone Live offers 3 age levels - preschool, early elementary, and older elementary plus there is a Spanish version. Each kit includes geographic themed lessons (In the Garden, By the Waters, In God's House, etc...) with leader's guide and classroom zillies.
PowerXpress is rotational learning in which one Bible story is taught for a period of 4-8 weeks using different learning centers. Check out this website for ways to use PowerXpress is a small membership church - http://www.powerxpress.com/content.aspx?dyn=26#a1399.
Super Simple Bible Lessons is written for 2 different age levels and offers learning activities for 60 Bible stories.
Youth
BL44 - Bible Lessons for Youth is written for 7-12th grade youth groups and it covers the entire Bible in six years. It is based on the International Lessons Series (as is Adult Bible Studies) and it uses a Bible-to-life approach. The curriculum includes separate student and teacher books.
Claim the Life is a DVD-based curriclum that offers a six-year, comprehensive spiritual formation plan for youth Sunday school. The annual themes are Journey, Word, and Faith for younger youth; Promise, Story, and Call for older youth. Each year is divided into two 16-week semesters.
Single Digit Youth Groups is for churches with fewer than 10 teens and offers a relevant youth ministry that powerfully affects student's lives. The books of the Single-Digit series enumerate additional benefits that can be found only in a compact group. Single-digit youth resources are designed to engage every teen in the room, at every level of maturity, without alienating all the rest.
Ready to Go Series for Youth Groups are ready-made event packages that come complete with everything you need to easily prepare and smoothly execute fun and instructive youth activities. Ready-to-Go resources are equipped with event themes that target contemporary issues teens face in the real world. These relevant messages are delivered with impact through coordinated devotional plans, discussion frameworks, and capitvating activities. All the event accessories you need are included, down to publicity fliers and parental forms.
For more information and to order resources, go to http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/curriculum.aspx.
Susan Groseclose
Director of Nurture Ministries
TN Conference Connectional Ministries
304 South Perimeter Park, Suite 1
Nashville, TN 37211
sgroseclose@tnumc.org
615-329-1177 or 1-800-403-5795 (W)
615-417-1753 (cell)
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Rock Solid: Building a Heart of Faith, new children's curriculum for the Fall of 2008
Rock Solid: Building a Heart of Faith is the new children's curriculum that is been produced by the United Methodist Publishing House. If you have a standing curriculum order with Cokesbury for Exploring Faith - you will be recieving this new curriculum for the Summer 2008. Otherwise, the curriculum will be available for purchase in Fall 2008.
What's new about this curriculum?
.The sesssions focus on coming to know God and Jesus rather than knowing about God and Jesus.
.They're talking a new language - moving away from school-based model to a faith-building model.
.Creating a new faith experience each week.
.Curriculum is different at each level - the sessions are themetatic with age-appropriate biblical studies. Basically younger boys and girls will study one Bible story and older boys and girls will study a different Bible story, more appropriate to their intellectual and faith development.
.Adaptable so that the church can tailor the curriculum to their needs and age-groupings, including those with one room Sunday School.
.Older Elementary and Tween curriculum is using an annual, commercial CD (the kid's music). All the other age-levels will have an annual musical CD that has been created and produced by professional songwriters.
.Free website activities for children and support and faith-development ideas for teachers and parents.
.Economical - $5.59 per child/per quarter and cheaper than Exploring Faith!
If you would like to set-up a standing curriculum order from Cokesbury, go to https://www.cokesbury.com/forms/AutomaticShipments.aspx.
For more information about Rock Solid, check out the website at http://IAmRockSolid.com. Also, plan to attend the upcoming Christian Educators Fellowship (CEF) meeting at the United Methodist Publishing House on Thursday, February 21st from 10:00A-2:00P with a showcase and training for all the new children, youth and adult curriculum resources. Please make a lunch reservation with Tina Rose, trose1116@comcast.net.
Blessings, Susan
Susan Groseclose
Director of Nurture Ministries
TN Conference Connectional Ministries
304 South Perimeter Park, Suite 1
Nashville, TN 37211
sgroseclose@tnumc.org
615-329-1177 or 1-800-403-5795 (W)
615-417-1753 (cell)
Rock Solid: Building a Heart of Faith is the new children's curriculum that is been produced by the United Methodist Publishing House. If you have a standing curriculum order with Cokesbury for Exploring Faith - you will be recieving this new curriculum for the Summer 2008. Otherwise, the curriculum will be available for purchase in Fall 2008.
What's new about this curriculum?
.The sesssions focus on coming to know God and Jesus rather than knowing about God and Jesus.
.They're talking a new language - moving away from school-based model to a faith-building model.
.Creating a new faith experience each week.
.Curriculum is different at each level - the sessions are themetatic with age-appropriate biblical studies. Basically younger boys and girls will study one Bible story and older boys and girls will study a different Bible story, more appropriate to their intellectual and faith development.
.Adaptable so that the church can tailor the curriculum to their needs and age-groupings, including those with one room Sunday School.
.Older Elementary and Tween curriculum is using an annual, commercial CD (the kid's music). All the other age-levels will have an annual musical CD that has been created and produced by professional songwriters.
.Free website activities for children and support and faith-development ideas for teachers and parents.
.Economical - $5.59 per child/per quarter and cheaper than Exploring Faith!
If you would like to set-up a standing curriculum order from Cokesbury, go to https://www.cokesbury.com/forms/AutomaticShipments.aspx.
For more information about Rock Solid, check out the website at http://IAmRockSolid.com. Also, plan to attend the upcoming Christian Educators Fellowship (CEF) meeting at the United Methodist Publishing House on Thursday, February 21st from 10:00A-2:00P with a showcase and training for all the new children, youth and adult curriculum resources. Please make a lunch reservation with Tina Rose, trose1116@comcast.net.
Blessings, Susan
Susan Groseclose
Director of Nurture Ministries
TN Conference Connectional Ministries
304 South Perimeter Park, Suite 1
Nashville, TN 37211
sgroseclose@tnumc.org
615-329-1177 or 1-800-403-5795 (W)
615-417-1753 (cell)
Teens seek new youth director in You Tube ad
A postcard invites candidates to "see us on You Tube" in the search for a new youth leader at St. Andrew By-The-Sea United Methodist Church in Hilton Head Island, S.C. Church youth starred in their own video ad, which was posted on the video-sharing Web site. A UMNS photo illustration courtesy of Jennifer Lee.
A UMNS Report
By Andrew Schleicher*
Finding the right youth director can be like catching the best wave, but only if you know how to surf. The youth group at St. Andrew By-The-Sea United Methodist Church in Hilton Head Island, S.C., hopes its next director will surf the Internet to find them.
Last fall, the youth created and starred in a minute-long video advertisement touting their "great location," "really cool building" and "awesome pastor" and inviting potential candidates to "come surf with us at St. Andrew on Hilton Head Island."
They posted the ad--complete with scenes of kids playing beach volleyball, foosball and basketball--on a popular video-sharing Web site and handed out postcards at a youth conference in Atlanta inviting interested youth directors to "see us on You Tube."
More than 1,300 people have viewed the ad since its November posting, and approximately 200 candidates submitted their resumes for the job. While the church used other traditional advertising methods as well, nearly every applicant mentioned the video.
The Rev. Neil Yongue, pastor of St. Andrew, came up with the idea for the You Tube ad as a way "that people could get an immediate taste of who we were."
"We wanted to do a good thorough search using all of the devices available," said Yongue, who presented the idea to church leaders. "I think [they] found it to be an exciting and novel idea."
Church member Glenn Brodie, who runs a radio and television production company, produced the video. He said writing the script was a group process but that the main idea came from the youth. "They wanted it to be at the beach to make it look fun," he said.
The filming took place over two days--one day at the church and another at Coligny Beach. Almost 20 youth members participated, including 15-year-old Cameron Stratton.
"I thought it was good idea to help get in touch with people through a more modern way," said Cameron.
Marissa Nichols, 15, served as the narrator, surrounded by other youths wearing shorts and T-shirts and even bathing suits against the backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean. "Here, you can live where most people come to vacation," a smiling Marissa says in the video montage.
Marissa was excited to be featured on You Tube and, after a local newspaper ran a story about the youth group project, her friends checked out the posting and thought it was cool. "I'm excited about getting a new youth director," she said, noting that she wants someone with "high energy, not necessarily young … someone we feel comfortable around (and with) a little bit of experience."
The church hopes to wrap up its search by the end of spring and is now conducting telephone interviews. The applicants include people of several denominational backgrounds. "We are trying to be very careful and prayerful," Yongue said.
*Schleicher is a freelance writer based in Nashville, Tenn.
A postcard invites candidates to "see us on You Tube" in the search for a new youth leader at St. Andrew By-The-Sea United Methodist Church in Hilton Head Island, S.C. Church youth starred in their own video ad, which was posted on the video-sharing Web site. A UMNS photo illustration courtesy of Jennifer Lee.A UMNS Report
By Andrew Schleicher*
Finding the right youth director can be like catching the best wave, but only if you know how to surf. The youth group at St. Andrew By-The-Sea United Methodist Church in Hilton Head Island, S.C., hopes its next director will surf the Internet to find them.
Last fall, the youth created and starred in a minute-long video advertisement touting their "great location," "really cool building" and "awesome pastor" and inviting potential candidates to "come surf with us at St. Andrew on Hilton Head Island."
They posted the ad--complete with scenes of kids playing beach volleyball, foosball and basketball--on a popular video-sharing Web site and handed out postcards at a youth conference in Atlanta inviting interested youth directors to "see us on You Tube."
More than 1,300 people have viewed the ad since its November posting, and approximately 200 candidates submitted their resumes for the job. While the church used other traditional advertising methods as well, nearly every applicant mentioned the video.
The Rev. Neil Yongue, pastor of St. Andrew, came up with the idea for the You Tube ad as a way "that people could get an immediate taste of who we were."
"We wanted to do a good thorough search using all of the devices available," said Yongue, who presented the idea to church leaders. "I think [they] found it to be an exciting and novel idea."
Church member Glenn Brodie, who runs a radio and television production company, produced the video. He said writing the script was a group process but that the main idea came from the youth. "They wanted it to be at the beach to make it look fun," he said.
The filming took place over two days--one day at the church and another at Coligny Beach. Almost 20 youth members participated, including 15-year-old Cameron Stratton.
"I thought it was good idea to help get in touch with people through a more modern way," said Cameron.
Marissa Nichols, 15, served as the narrator, surrounded by other youths wearing shorts and T-shirts and even bathing suits against the backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean. "Here, you can live where most people come to vacation," a smiling Marissa says in the video montage.
Marissa was excited to be featured on You Tube and, after a local newspaper ran a story about the youth group project, her friends checked out the posting and thought it was cool. "I'm excited about getting a new youth director," she said, noting that she wants someone with "high energy, not necessarily young … someone we feel comfortable around (and with) a little bit of experience."
The church hopes to wrap up its search by the end of spring and is now conducting telephone interviews. The applicants include people of several denominational backgrounds. "We are trying to be very careful and prayerful," Yongue said.
*Schleicher is a freelance writer based in Nashville, Tenn.
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