Time Management For Teachers

I glanced over an excellent article this week about time management for teachers. I am including some excerpts from it here. You may also read the entire article, in two parts, by using these links:

Part 1 Part 2

Here are some excerpts from the articles:

Revolutionary Sunday School requires more than two four-letter words: time and work. It also requires the wisest investment of that time and work. Many teachers, directors, and pastors are spending lots of time doing Sunday School work, but they are only doing good things rather than the best things. This is the difference between being “busy” and making a difference/being effective. We all have the same amount of time. The difference is how we use the time and energy we have.

Prayer for Jeremy, Sara, and Karen

Please be in prayer for three of our Sunday School Leaders – Jeremy and Sara Craig, along with Jeremy’s mom, Karen. Jeremy and Sara are going through a great loss right now and need our prayers and support. Pray for them, their families, and their ministries at our church. Support them, help them, and reach out to them.

Sunday School Done Right Pictures

I’ve posted several SSDR pictures online today. Thanks for taking these, Sara! I’m going to put a couple here, but check out this link for all of them! This was a great event, and I will recap it some more in the near future. It is going to be the spring board for a lot of things to come.

Here is the link to the gallery of pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/mylabruby/SundaySchool

Here’s a few more pictures:

VBS Leadership Meeting – February 3, 2008

We will be holding a VBS leadership meeting on Sunday, February 3, 2008, immediately following the morning worship service. This meeting is going to allow us to get several people interested in the VBS Director or other leadership positions together to discuss the responsibilities of the job, the kind of heart it takes, and the kind of organization and duties it will require. Sandi Layton and Carol Jones will be there to share their experiences, and Gordon, Jr. and myself will be there as well, hopefully. We have several interested parties and are trying to spread the word through channels that get to the heart of the matter, not just sharing it as a want ad or a spot to be filled. We need the right person for this job.

Above all, we need a heart for God. More specifically, a heart for children, for reaching them for Christ, and for caring for them through teaching, fun, and personal ministry. We will also need people willing or available to promote and organize the ministry.

I don’t see why this has to be one person.  But it could. I am wide open on that.

The Month of Febuary: Evangelism

Hi Team,

I am in the middle of a big behind-the-scenes project that’s going to be a great resource for us and our teachers to keep in touch and equip each other with the things we need to reach, teach, and minister to the people in our Sunday School and community. More on that, later.

The theme of Lifeway’s material for the month of February is Evangelism (from the little research I’ve done). I am attaching a file that you may want to glance at and get to your teachers if you think it would prove useful to them for discussion based SS classes. These may center around our youth and adult classes, but Jill and Sara, I’d encourage you to take a look at them as well and print or email copies to your teachers to help them prepare.

The attachment I’m sending you today is for this week’s lesson, particularly from the “Bible Studies for Life” literature. If you’d like more lesson and Q&A starters, you can go to this website: http://www.joshhunt.com/sunday-school.htm. Click on the series you want stuff for, and then you can download the lesson. If & when you are prompted for a password, I think you can use “yes” for the user name and “yes” for the password.

I hope you find this stuff useful. I am counting on you to (1) review this stuff and (2) get this information to your teachers if you feel it’s useful.

We’ll be communicating more on how we can use the month of February and the theme of evangelism to communicate the mission (reach), the work (teach), and the heart (minister) of Sunday School.

Thanks, guys…

Here is the direct link to the first lesson in February.