A local church educator wrote this to our email group:
I have a couple of questions about adult Sunday school if anyone has time to answer...thanks for your input!
#1- Who oversees your adult discipleship classes? ( By that I guess I want to know who chooses the teachers and the curriculum)
#2- What classes does your church offer for adults?
I'd love to hear input from anyone reading this blog. What do you do about these things?
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Lori wrote this to our email group and gave me permission to post it here:
At our church we have new and improved Faith Formation Committee which is comprised of our Dir. of Adult Ministries, Dir. of Youth Min's, Dir. of Children's Min's (me), and several members of the congregation. We also struggle with the issue of getting more adults involved in education programs and to come to the understanding that our growth and maturation as Christians is a life-long process and that there is much to learn everyday.
We have been making an effort to revitalize our Adult Ed on Sundays, which goes on during Church School, and we have scheduled topics to run 2-4 weeks at a time. At our Wednesday night programs we have offered the Alpha program in the past and are currently running a Nooma video series for adults during Cadets and Gems. We are looking into offering more Wednesday night adult programs, but of course, we have the ever-present space issues on Wednesdays.
We do have several successful small groups going on which many adults participate in, but our goal is to have all adults participate with something. We have stressed more personal invitations from those in existing small groups. The topics in these groups vary from Bible studies to Beth Moore video series (which some men even attend) to books clubs to a movie discussion group to occasional men's groups studying the book "Why Pray?"
Do you have a committee or could someone form one to discuss your goals for the adults of your congregation? That should be the place to start. It definitely needs more that one person's ideas.
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