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For those seeking understanding and for those helping others seek understanding of life's important questions... |
Curriculum and Resources For Christian Education Programs from See Spirit Grow |
What are Making it Real and Relevant and God Topics? Making it Real and Relevant and God Topics engage youth in examining a passage of the Bible. Each lesson makes use of small and/or large group discussion, activities, and popular music and/or video clips that encourage the participants to discover that God, Christ, the Bible and one's faith and values are all real and relevant to their lives. Making It Real and Relevant is a Lectionary-Based (RC, BCP or RCL) curriculum. The Lectionary- based format builds on one of the lectionary readings to be heard in the Sunday service that day (usually the New Testament or Gospel reading). God Topics is a topic-based approach using Bible passages that support a topic youth explore, usually for 3 to 4 weeks. Both curriculums have specially focused classes during the 5 sundays before Easter (Lent) and the 4 Sundays before Christmas (Advent). During these classes, students have the option of developing and carrying out a special service project of their choosing while they explore themes that are specific to the season of the church year. Both formats can be used with either middle school or high school youth; The lectionary-based curriculum was originally designed for high school youth, simply because the lectionary readings require a more abstract thought process that older youth are more developmentally able to deal with. The topic-based curriculum was designed for middle school youth because it is based in concrete thought processes. However, because the curricula are open- ended enough for the class to control the direction of discussion, Sunday school programs are finding that these curricula work with either age group and the lesson format allows youth, whether middle or high school, to address issues from where they are in their lives, mentally and emotionally. Click here to download a free sample of the Lectionary-Based Making It Real and Relevant To learn about pricing and ordering information, please click here to be taken to www.LeaderResources.org, the new publishing home for Making It Real and Relevant and God Topics! Good News for churches looking for summer curriculum! Making It Real and Relevant will be available year-round starting Summer 2010! |
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