*Getting Your Sunday School Cooking

The 2010-11 edition of Getting Your Sunday School Cooking is entitled Essential Ingredients: Jesus Cooked: What Would He Use?  Training events for the coming year begin with the Kickoff Event August 13-14. On Friday, August 13th, we will hold a Pastor/Staff/Sunday School Director and Spouse Kickoff Banquet with David Francis from LifeWay Christian Resources as our guest speaker.  On Saturday morning, David will speak to all Sunday School workers on "Great Expectations."  (Click here for downloadable poster.) Other training events include

 

-- Training the Cook and Wait Staff * – recruiting, apprenticing future teachers and training class officers; quality control (accountability)  9/14/10 (Woolmarket Baptist Church)

--Up Selling – Using Your “Employees” To Promote Your Business – getting your class or church involved in outreach 1/25/11 (Grace Chapel)

--Interviewing and Hiring Staff * – Training new unit leaders  5/24/11 (Big Ridge Baptist Church).

 

All of these events will begin at 6:30 p.m.

 

 

 

2009 - 2010 – Looking for New Recipes * (curriculum overview)   

                    Tweaking the Recipe (how to teach the lesson and make it your own)

 

2010 - 2011 – Training the Cook and Wait Staff * – recruiting, apprenticing future teachers and training class officers; quality control (accountability) 

 

2011 - 2012 – Returning Clientele (Do They Really Like It?) – learning styles vs. teaching styles; why do people attend –habit or are they being fed?   

 

2012 - 2013 – Franchising * – Creating New Units; Ministry Outside the Sunday School        

 

 

2009 - 2010 – Promoting Your Wares * –  Canned outreach programs; how to implement them; visitationtraining; using electronic media for outreach training; using electronic media for outreach 

 

2010 - 2011 – Up Selling – Using Your “Employees” To Promote Your Business – getting your class or church involved in outreach  

 

2011 - 2012 – BAM! From Good to GREAT! * – using big events and fellowships for outreach 

 

2012 - 2013 – Targeting Your Clientele – using new units to reach out; finding  unchurched people; building ministry opportunities 

 

 

 

2009 - 2010 – Location, Location, Location – Where can you start new units? 

 

2010 - 2011 – Interviewing and Hiring Staff * – Training new unit leaders 

 

2011 - 2012 – Developing a Menu (curriculum overview for new units) 

 

2012 - 2013 – The Grand Opening – putting it all together and starting a new unit  

 

* Age Group Training available

 

  

 

Looking for New Recipes * (curriculum overview)    10/12/09

Tweaking the Recipe (how to teach the lesson and make it your own)  3/9/10

Promoting Your Wares * – Canned outreach programs; how to implement them; visitation training; using electronic media for outreach 5/11/10

Location, Location, Location – Where can you start new units?  7/6/10

Essential Ingredients Kickoff with David Francis   8/14/10

Training the Cook and Wait Staff * – recruiting, apprenticing future teachers and training class officers; quality control (accountability)  9/14/10

Up Selling – Using Your “Employees” To Promote Your Business – getting your class or church involved in outreach 1/25/11

Interviewing and Hiring Staff * – Training new unit leaders  5/24/11

Customer Satisfaction (Do They Really Like It?) – learning styles vs. teaching styles; why do people attend – habit or are they being fed? 10/11/11

BAM! Making Good GREAT! * – using big events and fellowships for outreach 2/20/12

Developing a Menu (curriculum overview for new units)  4/24/12

Franchising * – Creating New Units; Ministry Outside the Sunday School  9/11/12

Targeting Your Clientele – using new units to reach out; finding unchurched people; building ministry opportunities 1/29/13

The Grand Opening – putting it all together and starting a new unit 5/28/13

 

 

 

At least three trainings per year; one from each area

            2009-2010 – 4                         2011-2012 – 3

            2010-2011 – 3                         2012-2013 – 3

 

           

 

2009 – 2010   Getting Sunday School Cooking! 

2010 – 2011   Essential Ingredients (Jesus Cooked: What Would He Use?) David Francis

2011 – 2012   Making Sunday School Spicy! 

2012 - 2013   Serving It Up - Year of the New Unit – Goal: every church beginning at least one new unit

 

These themes can be used for an August New Sunday School Year Kickoff in a large group setting with a special speaker. The themes also give ideas for door prizes (i.e. small bottles of Tabasco sauce for Making Sunday School Spicy!)

  

Training events can be offered more than once, either at an alternate time or morning and night of the same day (best if using outside leaders). All training will be available on a church-by-church basis led by GCBA leadership.