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.

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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)