Sunday School Resources
“The Called” Sunday School lessons
“Discover The Treasure” Sunday School lessons
Stewardship Sunday School Lessons
Spiritual Food For Sunday School Leaders by Rick Ellison
Time for a REALITY check in Sunday School materials
What Are We Talking About?
Sunday School…small groups…life groups…or even a new name you might use.
We are talking about plans to reach people and teach the Bible for life transformation. Sunday School is the foundational strategy in a local church for leading people to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and for building on-mission Christians through open Bible study groups that engage people in evangelism, discipleship, ministry, fellowship, worship and prayer.
Bible teaching for life transformation is foundational. This sets the direction of the local church for reaching people and growing disciples. It is a strategy that takes lots of work, planning, prayer, patience and determination. It is a great strategy for evangelism and discipleship.
What Does the Pastor Have to Do with Sunday School?
The pastor is the leader, the primary player, the one who sets the pace for disciple building. He must take the lead and encourage the entire church to participate if the Bible teaching strategy of the church is to be successful. He must lead the Sunday School Planning Team (Council) to set goals and evaluate the Sunday School strategy to fulfill the biblical functions of disciple building.
What Is the Pastor’s Game Plan?
1. Provide overall leadership to the Sunday School Planning Team.
2. Lead the team in keeping the Sunday School focused on its purpose.
3. Give vital and visible support to Sunday School and its leaders.
4. Communicate the overall mission (purpose) and message of the Sunday School to the entire church.
5. Guide team members toward spiritual maturity and assist them in developing skills that enhance their ability to fulfill their responsibilities.
6. Set a positive example for others by living as an authentic witness of Christ and by full involvement in the life and ministry of the church.
7. The pastor and other leaders will give frequent opportunities for members who are not Christian to confess Christ publicly and will urge them to do so.
Download the full Coach’s Guide to Sunday School (.pdf)
Introduction (.pdf)
Chapter 1 – Vision
Chapter 2 – Why Build a Team
Chapter 3 – Outreach
Chapter 4 – Inreach
Chapter 5 – New Groups
Chapter 6 – Planning
Chapter 7 – Discovering and Enlisting Workers
Chapter 8 – Getting Started
Chapter 9 – Teaching a Good Lesson
Appendix 1 (.pdf)
Appendix 2 (.pdf)
Directing Sunday School with SKILL is designed to assist Sunday School leaders in making the best of their Sunday School classes. SKILL is designed to be a notebook with 5 different tabs:
Start Right, Keys to Growth, Ideas, Leadership Development, Leadership Resources.
SKILL notebook cover
Introduction Letter from Sunday School Office Director, Daniel Edmonds
Start Right Tab:
Part 1 – My Beginnings as Sunday School Director, Dwight Moss
Part 2 – What Does a Sunday School Director Do on Sunday Morning
Part 3 – How to Visit Sunday School Classes
Keys to Growth Tab:
The Alabama Sunday School Standard of Excellence (book)
Ideas for Promotion Tab:
Part 2 – Ideas for High Contact Sundays
Part 3 – CARE – A Contact Campaign, Daniel Edmonds, SBOM, Sunday School Office
Part 4 – Ideas for Making Contacts, Marie Clark, Kansas Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists
Part 5 – LifeWay Sunday School Websites
Part 6 – Ideas for VBS Follow-up
Part 9 – Welcome Home to Sunday School, Bobby DuBois
Leadership Development Tab:
Part 1 –Developing Your Own Sunday School Leadership Training Event
Part 2 – Developing a Monthly or Weekly Sunday School Training Schedule
Part 3 – Using DVD or On-line Sunday School Training
Part 4 – Being a Person of Grace Guide for Weekend, Rick Ellison
Part 5 – Being a Person of Grace Student Booklet, Rick Ellison
Part 6 – Being a Person of Grace Booklet and Overheads, Rick Ellison
Cover Page – Leadership Lessons and Listening Guides
Leadership Lesson 1 – Developing a Sunday School Outreach/Evangelism Strategy
Leadership Lesson 2 – Ministry Through The Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 3 – Do I Really Want My Class to Grow?
Leadership Lesson 4 – Starting New Units
Leadership Lesson 5 – Shine Like Stars – What It Means to Be an All Star on God’s Team
Leadership Lesson 6 – Effective Adult Teachers
Leadership Lesson 7 – Discovering New People
Leadership Lesson 9 – Sunday Morning Alive
Leadership Lesson 10 – Core Values of Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 11 – Open Enrollment
Leadership Lesson 12 – Attitudes of a Winning Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 13 – A Winning Sunday School Team
Leadership Lesson 14 – Sunday School ALIVE
Leadership Lesson 15 – Affirm the Mission
Leadership Lesson 16 – Leadership Development
Leadership Lesson 17 – Involve Every Person
Leadership Lesson 18 – Values Visible
Leadership Lesson 19 – Evangelism as the Priority
Leadership Lesson 20 – “Triple A” Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 21 – Benefits of Being Involved in Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 22 – Essential Skills for Effective Sunday School Teachers
Leadership Lesson 23 – The Friendship Factor – Making Friends for Jesus in Adult Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 24 – Going Beyond the Limits – Your Sunday School Connecting with Your Community
Leadership Lesson 25 – Important Commitments for Sunday School Leaders
Leadership Lesson 26 – Developing a Vision for Your Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 27 – Ministering in Time of Crises
Leadership Lesson 28 – How to Teach Difficult Subjects
Leadership Lesson 29 – 5 Ways Your Class Can Minister to People
Leadership Lesson 30 – Barriers to Sunday School Growth
Leadership Lesson 31 – Being a Person of Grace – A Sunday School Leader Fully Devoted to Christ
Leadership Lesson 32 – Effective Use of Questions in a Sunday School Lesson
Leadership Lesson 33 – Expressing My Love to God Through Service
Leadership Lesson 34 – Getting People Plugged in Through Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 35 – Let’s Party – Ideas for Sunday School Fellowships
Leadership Lesson 36 – Let’s Evaluate Our Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 37 – Making Ministry Visits to the Home
Leadership Lesson 38 – Overcoming Sunday School Myths
Leadership Lesson 39 – The Nuts and Bolts of Outreach (Part 1)
Leadership Lesson 40 – The Nuts and Bolts of Outreach (Part 2)
Leadership Lesson 41 – The Power and Presence of God Through Prayer
Leadership Lesson 42 – Plugging the Leaks – How to Reclaim Absentees
Leadership Lesson 43 – How to Have a ‘Do Come’ Adult Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 44 – What Every Leader Should Know About Working With Youth in Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 45 – Twelve Things Our Sunday School Can Do to Minister to the Community
Leadership Lesson 46 – Ten Minutes a Day Can Prevent Many Saturday Night Specials
Leadership Lesson 47 – Nine Things Good Sunday School Leaders Must Do
Leadership Lesson 48 – Sunday School Leader Basics
Leadership Lesson 49 – A Guest’s Checklist
Leadership Lesson 50 – Getting People Plugged in Through Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 51 – Ways to Use Our Sunday School Rolls to Touch People’s Lives
Leadership Lesson 52 – Thirteen Essential New Testament Doctrines for Sunday School Leaders
Leadership Lesson 53 – How to Share the Plan of Salvation
Leadership Lesson 54 – Planning Your Week for Effective Teaching
Leadership Lesson 55 – What Every Leader Should Know about the Cooperative Program
Leadership Lesson 56 – Why Sunday School Is Important to God
Leadership Lesson 57 – Creative Fellowships for Connecting to Adults
Leadership Lesson 58 – Essentials to Sunday School Growth
Leadership Lesson 59 – Prospecting 101
Leadership Lesson 60 – Using Prayer in the Sunday School Class
Leadership Lesson 61 – Contact Ideas
Leadership Lesson 62 – Discovering the Unchurched
Leadership Lesson 63 – Keys to Sunday School Growth
Leadership Lesson 64 – Ways to Grow As a Sunday School Leader
Leadership Lesson 65 – The Holy Ground Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 66 – Building Community
Leadership Lesson 67 – Ways to Encourage Those In My Class
Leadership Lesson 68 – Why Sunday School Is Important for People
Leadership Lesson 69 – Core Principles for Sunday School Growth
Leadership Lesson 70 – How to Teach to All Four Learning Styles in the Same Lesson
Leadership Lesson 71 – Making the Grade as a Sunday School Leader
Leadership Lesson 72 – Why We Do What We Do In Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 73 – Using Flake’s Formula
Leadership Lesson 74 – Why Missions Support is Important in Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 75 – Beginning a Homebound Ministry
Leadership Lesson 76 – Developing a Senior Adult Ministry
Leadership Lesson 77 – Reaching and Teaching Senior Adults
Leadership Lesson 78 – Six Myths About Homebound Adults
Leadership Lesson 79 – Effective Elements of Adult Bible Study
Leadership Lesson 80 – The Difference Between Open and Closed Sunday School Classes
Leadership Lesson 81 – Ways Our Class Can Let People Down
Leadership Lesson 82 – Ways the Sunday School Can Support Your Pastor
Leadership Lesson 83 – Characteristics of the Best Sunday School Teacher
Leadership Lesson 84 – Checklist For Starting New Classes
Leadership Lesson 85 – I Am NOT Wired For 220
Leadership Lesson 86 – Leading Children to Christ
Leadership Lesson 87 – The Cardinal Sin of Church Leadership – Lowering the Bar
Leadership Lesson 88 – Whatever It Takes vs Whatever
Leadership Lesson 89 – How Children Learn
Leadership Lesson 90 – Ministry to Families with Children
Leadership Lesson 91 – Preparing the Children’s Room for Sunday Morning
Leadership Lesson 92 – What Every Leader Should Know About Children’s Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 93 – Developing a Relationship with Preschool Parents
Leadership Lesson 94 – Teaching Preschoolers – The Eight Ways Preschoolers Learn
Leadership Lesson 95 – What Every Leader Should Know About Preschool Sunday School
Leadership Lesson 97 – Teens Need a Place They Belong – Why Sunday School Is Important for Teens
Leadership Lesson 99 – Windows 7 Was Their Idea (Technology and Teaching Teenagers)
Leadership Lesson 100 – Attributes of the Greatest Sunday School Leader
Leadership Lesson 101 – Am I Hallucinating – Re-dreaming the Purpose of Your Class
Leadership Lesson 102 – Remember Me – Caring For Your In-Service Missionaries
Leadership Lesson 103 – When the Roll is Called Up Yonder – Will You Be There
Adult Class Organization Sheet
Adult Responsibilities of Sunday School Workers
Adult Sunday School Class Leadership Development Guide
Adult Sunday School Class Schedule
Assessing Adults on Sunday Morning
Charging the Outreach Batteries
Homebound Ministry Administrative Guide
How Can We Increase Sunday School Attendance
How to Design a Strong Teaching Plan
How to Get Adults Involved in Outreach
How to Reclaim Chronic Absentees
Meeting Space Specifications Chart
Organizing Care Groups for Sunday School
Preparing for Sunday’s Session
Creative Teaching Methods for Youth
Ten Commandments for Legal Issues & Familiar Legal Concerns
Organizing Youth Ministry in a Small Church
Confidential Volunteer Worker Application Form
Youth Responsibilities of Sunday School Workers
How to Ask a Good Bible Study Question
Tips to Success in Working with Teens
Assessing Children on Sunday Morning
Children – How to Become a Christian – English
Children – How to Become a Christian – Spanish
Children’s Responsibilities of Sunday School Workers
Meeting Space Specifications Chart
What About Sixth Graders? Should they be included in youth or children?
Preschool-art handout (Orchid)
Preschool-block handout (Bright Red)
Preschool-books handout (Bright Yellow)
Preschool-homeliving handout (Bright Blue)
Preschool-music handout (Bright Green)
Preschool-nature handout (Bright Orange)
Preschool-puzzles handout (Cherry)
Preschool-Storytelling Brochure (Goldenrod)
Preschool-Teaching Pictures handout (Peach)
Preschool-Recommended Preschool Equipment
Meeting Space Specifications Chart
Preschool Responsibilities – Job Descriptions
Developing Infectious Disease Policies
Hygiene Practices and Policies
Assessing Preschool, Children, Youth, Adults on Sunday Morning
Meeting Space Specifications Chart
Associational Sunday School Director
Free Supplemental Sunday School Lessons
General Officer Responsibilities
General Officers Quality Sunday School Standard
Job Description for Church Sunday School Director
Sunday School Teacher Covenant
Sunday School Job Descriptions for the Department
Sunday School Job Descriptions for a Class
Guidelines for When a New Group is Needed