Originally published in the February 12, 2008 issue of The Evangel.
About 125 Sunday School leaders spent Super Bowl Sunday at the February Sunday School Xtravaganza! Terry Turner did a fabulous job in challenging us to go from good to great in Sunday School! WE CAN DO IT! Leaders received several good reminders and ideas to implement in their respective classes.
1) Impact Prayer — Leaders will distribute Impact prayer cards to Sunday School members. These help classes identify, pray for and invite friends to church. Especially consider inviting those who are searching for Christ and need to hear a clear Gospel presentation Easter Sunday, March 23.
2) Pray for Revival!
3) Ladies — Identify and invite female friends on Mother’s Day May 11, when the church gives all women in attendance a gift book.
4) Men — Identify and invite male friends for Father’s Day June 15, when the church gives all men in attendance a gift book.
5) Spiritual Growth — Participate and encourage friends to participate in Life Change University discipleship classes.
• Invigorate — develop a healthy congregational self esteem
• Incorporate — use good visibility, signage, name badges, etc.
• Intercede — pray, pray, pray
• Invest — develop a culture of invitation
• Invite — learn the ways to invite and do it
• Involve — involve more people in outreach in inviting
All Sunday School leaders should mark their calendars for Sunday, August 24, noontime, for the next general Sunday School Xtravaganza featuring David Francis of LifeWay’s Sunday School Division. He will share the next of our I-6 strategies, DISCOVER. Also plan to attend the Sunday School Leadership training event at Ridgecrest, N.C. on July 11-15 details will follow soon.
