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Sabbath School - Curriculum updates

Mar 30, 2012

Church Sabbath School leaders are rolling out new curriculum for children after evaluating a decade of department resources.

Beginning in 2013, just a little less than a year from now, the Sabbath school and Personal ministries department are going to be rolling out some new material for the Children’s Sabbath school curriculum.  We are very excited about this because we have been working on this for two or three years.  It is the normal thing to do to assess and evaluate your curriculum after it has been in use for several years.  The children’s curriculum have been available now for almost ten years and we have been looking at that and we have been subjecting it to focus groups and to survey’s and we have found that we would like to be able to provide some exciting new things that is going to make the children’s Sabbath school curriculum more exciting than ever before.  These kinds of things are going to include some brand new art in a more representational form, we found that there is preference for that, it is going to provide materials that is going to help the teacher and the parent be able to work more effectively and to relate more effectively to their own children and to help them in turn to relate more closely to Jesus – that is what the Sabbath school is all about is helping our children become closer, ever closer to Jesus.

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