The art of making someone feel welcome is primary in the development of a warm, inviting Sabbath School atmosphere. What are the principles of visitation that will bring comfort to new visitors and members who have strayed away? This and other timely questions are fully answered in this leaflet. This comprehensive guide provides all the tools for the superintendent to meet these goals. The superintendent of the local Sabbath School undertakes a full-fledged ministry that seeks to provide a winning atmosphere in which members are enriched in fellowship and the study of God’s word as well as trained to become effectives disciples. The duties and responsibilities of this important role are outlined in this practical guide. The secretary of the local Sabbath School is pivotal to its smooth organization. This comprehensive guide to the planning and conducting of the local Sabbath School summarizes its basic elements and gives specific direction to its development. This leaflet provides clear suggestions as to how Sabbath School leaders and teachers may help young people to move toward this vitally important choice.Īn effective Sabbath School begins with organization. One of the key objectives of Sabbath School for children and youth is to prepare them for decisions for baptism. The Investment plan in the local Sabbath School begins with able and energetic leadership, for which this leaflet offers great ideas and wise counsel.
Over the past century, creative investment projects have inspired Sabbath School members to engage in fun and unexpected ways to support the world mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. You can learn ways in this leaflet to develop and run an effective extension division of your local Sabbath School that will include those who may not be able to be with you. Just because someone is physically unable to attend a Sabbath School doesn’t mean he or she must be ever deprived of its blessings. This leaflet is a compilation of quotations from her writings focused specifically on the Sabbath School teacher. How do visitors feel when they walk in the door of your Sabbath School program? Principles of warmth and openness are outlined in this leaflet to make your Sabbath School a truly inviting place to be.Įllen White provided clear and compelling principles of learning that will enhance the effectiveness of any teacher, no matter what his or her experience. Guidelines are provided in this leaflet for reaching out to friends and neighbors in a special way. This leaflet provides ways in which the teacher becomes a facilitator of a way to come to know the Bible and to know Jesus.īranch Sabbath Schools are a proven way to evangelize people in the surrounding community and win them to the wonderful Seventh-day Adventist family.
The teacher of the Sabbath School class for adults has a unique responsibility to present a transformational atmosphere in which members are drawn to Christ through God’s Word. Action units implement this small-group concept to breathe life into your Sabbath School. The small-group dynamic provides an especially effective way to fulfill the four objectives of Sabbath School. This handbook deals fully with every element of Sabbath School and provides a great overview of the tools and objectives that combine to make it a success.
This is everything you need to know to initiate and conduct a great Sabbath School program in the local church. No one should miss Sabbath School!”-Ted N C Wilson, president, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. What a privilege to be able to study our Bible and the Adult Bible Study Guide in a small group setting and make the wonderful biblical instructions practical for our spiritual experience the next week. It gives us the opportunity for fellowship, mission understanding, outreach and one of the greatest parts, Bible study and discussion. “Sabbath School is one of the most important parts of Sabbath. A solid balance of these elements characterizes the most vital Sabbath Schools around the world.īased on these four emphases, from its beginning in 1853, Sabbath School membership has exploded from a handful of believers in upstate New York to an estimated 14 million today.
SABBATH SCHOOL PROGRAM TEMPLATE SERIES
In 1852, estimating an informal membership of about 1,000 in the state of New York, White had written a series of 19 lessons appearing in the new Youth’s Instructor.įrom its inception Sabbath School has focused on four emphases that are still prominent to this day: fellowship development, community outreach, Bible study, and foreign mission. In 1853, only a few years after the first group of Sabbath-keeping Adventists was formed in Washington, New Hampshire, James White organized the first regular Sabbath School in Rochester, New York.
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