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Title: The Five Step Formula for Sunday School Growth


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Five
Step
Formula
for
Sunday School
Growth!
  • Lewis Miller
  • Florida Baptist Convention Sunday School
    Department LifeWay
    Ministry Multiplier

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How Well Do You Know Sunday School?
  • Fact
  • Fiction?

How Well Do You Know Arthur Flake?
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Arthur Flake settled in Winona Mississippi as a
traveling salesman in 1894.
FACT!
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Arthur Flake birthed the idea for the Broadman
Holman Publishing Company.
Fiction!
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The Sunday School Movement began in Britain.
FACT!
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Arthur Flake was the first Sunday School
department Director at the Sunday School Board in
Nashville, Tennessee.
FACT!
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Sunday Schools were first established by Robert
Raikes in the 1780s to teach children to read
using the Bible as the text.
FACT!
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Sunday Schools were never intended for adults.
Fiction!
By the early 1800s Sunday School classes were
organized for working class men and women.
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Just prior to his death in 1952 Arthur Flake
added a sixth step in the Sunday School formula.
Fiction!
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In 1895 Arthur Flake led Winona Baptist Church to
form the first Training Union in all of
Mississippi.
FACT!
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From the beginning Sunday Schools have been
outreach-oriented small groups that enjoy
fellowship and the study of Gods Word.
FACT!
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Once a Sunday School class begins meeting for
several sessions, new people wont be able to
join.
Fiction!
New people can join a class or group at anytime.
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For the believer, the primary purpose of Sunday
School is deeper Bible study.
Fiction!
Sunday School is a place of service for the
believer as they study the Bible.
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Sunday School ministry takes place on a long-term
and ongoing basis.
FACT!
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Foundationally, Adult Sunday Schools cannot
address the five purposes of the church.
Fiction!
The ministrys purposes include, foundationally,
all five purposes of the church.
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The primary textbook for Adult Sunday School is
the learner guide or quarterly.
Fiction!
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The primary style of ministry for Adult Sunday
School is relational.
FACT!
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Know the Possibilities
Enlarge the Organization
Provide the Space
Enlist and Train Workers
Go After the People
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Know the Possibilities
When He saw the crowds, He felt compassion for
them, because they were weary and worn out, like
sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then He said to His
disciples, The harvest is abundant, but the
workers are few. 38 Therefore, pray to the Lord
of the harvest to send out workers into His
harvest. Matthew 936-38 (HCSB)
Just Look!
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Census Data
Primary Ministry Area
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Prospective Member Possibilities
  • Telephone surveys and mail follow-up
  • Church membership roll
  • Inactive Sunday School members
  • Summer and school Ministries
  • Special events
  • Newspaper noticesespecially in hometown
    publications newly born, wed, widowed
  • Newcomers
  • FRANsFriends, relatives, associates, and
    neighbors.
  • Advanced demographic profiles
  • Religious Censusdoor-to-door asking residents
    about church involvement, gathering names and
    ages of all within the household
  • Worship guests

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Know the Possibilities
Enlarge the Organization
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  • You cant keep doing the same things youve
    always done and expect different results!

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Unless the present Sunday School organization is
enlarged, practically all of the work done in
Knowing the Possibilities will come to naught. It
will be necessary to enlarge the organization in
order to take care of all the people on the
church roll as well as those discovered in the
census. Arthur Flake
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Four Reasons for Age-Grading
  • To reach those who ought to be in Sunday School
  • To teach those who are in Sunday School
  • To enhance personal responsibility for reaching
    the lost
  • To provide a system for assigning prospects and
    guests for follow-up

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Time to Start a New Class?
  • The class has too wide an age span (10 or more
    years).
  • There are more than 40 people enrolled in the
    class.
  • The meeting place is filled with members,
    regardless of the number enrolled.
  • Needs are not being met consistently.
  • Prospects have been found, but there is not a
    class to which the prospects can be assigned
    naturally.
  • The number of adults in an age group has suddenly
    grown.
  • New church members are not currently being
    enrolled in classes.
  • People drift in and out of the class, and no one
    in the class notices.

Essentials for Excellence CD-ROM, LifeWay Church
Resources
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Know the Possibilities
Enlarge the Organization
Provide the Space
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There is no such thing as building a Sunday
School in great numbers in small cramped
quarters. Arthur Flake
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  • Nice facilities, adequate space, safe, easily
    accessible childrens and preschool space, and
    clean space were all issues of importance to
    unchurched people surveyed by Dr. Thom S.
    Rainer.
  • Surprising Insights from the Unchurched

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Room Set Up
  • Focal Wall
  • Make sure that everything on the focal wall
    points to the lesson that is being taught.
    Announcements, pictures, or bulletins should be
    placed on a bulletin board somewhere away from
    the focal wall.
  • Place something on the focal walla poster, a
    question on the board, an outline, a statement,
    or a quoterelated to the lesson topic.
  • Remove all old posters from previous lessons.
  • You dont have to have walls to have Sunday
    School. All you need is the learners attention.

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Room Set Up
  • Chairs
  • Anticipate the number of chairs needed for class
    members plus any guests.
  • Always have more chairs than participants.
    Practice the empty chair principlethere is
    always room for one more.
  • Arrange the chairsdont create relationship or
    learning barriers.
  • Consider changing the chair arrangement from time
    to time.

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Room Set Up
  • Tables
  • Avoid using tables if they create a barrier
    between you and others.
  • Dont use tables if they keep you from adding
    people.
  • If tables are used, there should be enough room
    for everyone.
  • Consider using tables if you have adults with
    physical disabilities.

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Never let SPACE dictate your ministry!
CLASS FULL NO ROOM
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Know the Possibilities
Enlarge the Organization
Provide the Space
Enlist and Train Workers
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  • The enrollment potential of any Sunday School is
    seldom higher than 10 times the number of
    workers. Arthur Flake

12 Workers X 10 120 Enrollment Potential 25
Workers X 10 250 Enrollment Potential 50
Workers X 10 500 Enrollment Potential 100
Workers X 10 1000 Enrollment Potential
Adult Sunday School Ratio 1 worker for every 4
adults enrolled.
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Where will all the workers be found?
  • Adult Classes!

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Class Organization
Keep it SimpleStart with the Basics!
  • Teacher
  • Ministry Coordinator
  • Apprentice

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Class Organization
Expand as leaders are developed and as the class
grows.
Expanded
Expanded
  • Basic
  • Teacher
  • Ministry Coordinator
  • Apprentice
  • Visitation/Evangelism
  • Care Group Ministry
  • A.C.E.
  • Organize by gender
  • Maximum of seven individuals in a group
  • Mix of actives, in-actives, and members-in-service
  • Fellowship
  • Prayer
  • Missions

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  • The importance of proper enlistment of teachers
    cannot be overstated. . . . We really do enlist
    about ninety-five percent of our problems. If we
    will enlist workers properly, it will save many
    headaches in the future.
  • Allan Taylor Six Core Values of Sunday School,
    minister of education, FBC Woodstock, GA

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Three Steps for Enlisting Workers
  • Praying publicly and privately for workers.
  • Making a list of prospective leaders.
  • Securing the consent of those selected to serve.

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  • Then about five he went and found others
    standing around, and said to them, Why have you
    been standing here all day doing nothing?
     Because no one hired us, they said to him.
    You also go to my vineyard, he told them.
    Matt. 206-7 (HCSB)

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Dont say No for someone else!
Everyone is a potential leader!
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Answer Three Questions When Enlisting
  • Why me?
  • Is this job important?
  • Will you provide training and resources?

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Know the Possibilities
Enlarge the Organization
Provide the Space
Enlist and Train Workers
Go After the People
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In a sophisticated, technological society like
ours, isnt visitation a little old fashioned?
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  • There is absolutely no substitute for
    face-to-face contact with the customer or the
    prospective customer.
  • Arthur Flake

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Making the Sunday-Guest Connection
  • Definite Time
  • Definite Prospects
  • Definite Reporting

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Know the Possibilities
Enlarge the Organization
Provide the Space
Enlist and Train Workers
Go After the People
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  • So we must not get tired of doing good, for we
    will reap at the proper time if we dont give up.
    Therefore, as we have opportunity, we must work
    for the good of all, especially for those who
    belong to the household of faith. Galatians
    69-10 (HCSB)

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