Sunday School

Sunday School
Author: Anne M. Boylan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780300048148

This engrossing book traces the social history of Protestant Sunday schools from their origins in the 1790s--when they taught literacy to poor working children--to their consolidation in the 1870s, when they had become the primary source of new church members for the major Protestant denominations. Anne M. Boylan describes not only the schools themselves but also their place within a national network of evangelical institutions, their complementary relationship to local common schools, and their connection with the changing history of youth and women in the nineteenth century. Her book is a signal contribution to our understanding of American religious and social history, education history, women's history, and the history of childhood.

Revitalizing the Sunday Morning Dinosaur

Revitalizing the Sunday Morning Dinosaur
Author: Ken Hemphill
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0805461744

According to the leading church growth expert, Ken Hemphill, Sunday School is not only worth saving, it has the potential to revitalize your entire church. 'Revitalizing The Sunday Morning Dinosaur' gives you specific, detailed steps on how to lead your congregation in making it happen.

Robert Raikes

Robert Raikes
Author: J. Henry Harris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Sunday schools
ISBN: 9781414111650

In 1780, the story of Sunday School began when Robert Raikes walked down the steps from his second story printing office to the street below. There, he encountered a wash woman that complained that the swearing of the children on the Sabbath Day made it sound more like hell than heaven. At that moment God dropped a word into his heart-try. Raikes took thirty children off the street and began to teach them how to read. Their first lessons were "God is One" and "God is love." He cleaned them up, gave them clothes, and taught them that vice is preventable and that a good example can draw others like a magnet. Other children were drawn so that the one school grew to seven schools; and after three years, he published to the world the effects of his experiment. He called it "botanizing in human nature." In a letter to a friend, he explained that his vision was to "create a new race out of what others called waste." By the time Robert Raikes died, over four hundred thousand children were enrolled in Sunday Schools. The story you are about to read was first told to a Sunday School class by J. Henry Harris in 1900. The author edited this story so that the testimony of Robert Raikes may inspire us to believe in the power of God's Word to transform lives and shape the future of our nation. Dr. Michael Peters graduated cum laude from Covenant Theological Seminary and holds a Ph.D. in historical theology from Saint Louis University.

Housewife Theologian

Housewife Theologian
Author: Aimee Byrd
Publisher: P & R Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2013
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781596386655

Women who want God to be more than superficially in their lives can rise above the world's expectations by becoming housewife theologians finding true meaning and true worship everyday. Great for journaling and for group discussion.

Already Gone

Already Gone
Author: Ken Ham
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0890515298

NATIONWIDE POLLS AND DENOMINATIONAL REPORTS ARE SHOWING THAT THE NEXT GENERATION IS CALLING IT QUITS ON THE TRADITIONAL CHURCH.

Breathing Life Into Sunday School

Breathing Life Into Sunday School
Author: Ken Braddy
Publisher: Lifeway Church Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-04-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781535967211

Breathing Life into Sunday School speaks to the most important ministry that churches have, their Bible teaching ministry. Although Sunday school goes by many names today, it is still a time-honored and effective ministry for teaching the Bible, reaching people for Christ, assimilating them into the church, and growing them as disciples. The majority of churches inside and outside the SBC utilize Sunday school and need to know ways to grow it and improve its health. Although Sunday school is an important ministry, many churches have not experienced its full potential. Sunday school is in decline in most denominations, and there is a lack of health and vitality that it once had. In many churches, the leadership of the Sunday school is in the hands of untrained laymen (Sunday school directors), or is led by the pastor who has no paid staff members, and who might even be bi-vocational. This limits the pastor's time to address the needs of the church's Sunday school. This book details twelve ways that a church can experience new life and vibrancy in its Sunday school ministry. The twelve essentials are replicable by churches of any size. Based on the author's extensive history and training in Christian education and Sunday school, he helps the reader focus on key practices that are needed in order for a Sunday school to grow. The 128 page book is designed to help church leaders train Sunday school directors, teachers, and group members of a Sunday school class or Bible study group.

Sunday School That Really Works

Sunday School That Really Works
Author: Steve R. Parr
Publisher: Kregel Ministry
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0825435676

Effective and simply innovations for your church's adult fellowship program