Education Summit: Pros and Cons
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Name (optional but encouraged)
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What should be the structure of Sunday Morning?
Go from two worship services back to one
Retain the ‘sandwich’ model but make the services shorter
Go from the ‘sandwich’ model to the ‘parallel model.'
Eliminate Sunday School and just have two worship services.
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Structure of Sunday Morning
(1) Go from two worship services back to one
Sunday School – Worship
OR (2) Retain the ‘sandwich’ model but make the services shorter
Worship – Sunday School – Worship
OR (3) Go from the ‘sandwich’ model to the ‘parallel model’
Two Worship Services each with simultaneous Sunday School
Suggested Details:
Have different types of Sunday School with each Worship service, i.e. the first hour could focus on Sunday Morning Small Groups and the second hour on Age Graded Sunday School
Have different types of worship in the church services (traditional / contemporary)
OR (4) Eliminate Sunday School altogether
Two Worship services (probably with Junior Church)
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Create a Disciple Making Pathway
* Trinity Vision Small Groups (six week Biblical introduction to Trinity’s vision and to Small Group fellowship)
* Other Groups responsible for fellowship and growth
* Leadership Community
* Create an oversight committee to monitor leadership needs and extend both personal and group invitations, and to communicate the need to step up and participate in leadership.
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Add a Second Pastor or Trained Staff Person to minister in the area of:
* Disciple Making, or
* Youth, or
* Christian Education, or
* Evangelism Outreach
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Strengthen Sunday Morning Small Groups / Small Groups:
* Combine the administration of Sunday Morning Small Groups and regular Small Groups.
* Focus on the small group aspect (not large / small alternation)
* Add a non-Sunday component to Sunday morning small groups.
* Allow for Sunday Morning Small Groups with a focus on adults or other non-family groupings.
* Create Fellowship/Relational Groups of three or four families.
* Create Non Geographic rotated small groups
* Assign everyone to a small group (shepherding groups)
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Define the content of teaching and adhere to a scope and sequence.
* Do this for children’s ministries so nothing is missed.
* Do this for all teaching ministries.
* Give all teaching groups and small group activities concrete end dates and reshuffling opportunities.
* Focus teaching training of parents to equip families, rather than on training children directly.
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Men’s and Women’s ministries:
* Strengthen Men’s ministries, especially for equipping men as husbands and fathers.
* Strengthen Women’s ministries, especially for different styles of Bible Study.
* Eliminate Men’s and Women’s ministries altogether.
* Combine the administration of Men’s and Women’s Ministries
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Eliminate Age Graded Sunday School, Life, AfterLIFE and all ministries that depend on age segregation.
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Add or strengthen demographic ministries to address single adults, young marrieds, post high school ministries, adoption support.
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Other education ideas not covered above:
Do VBS
Do six months of regular Sunday school followed by six months of age integrated Sunday School or Sunday Morning Small Groups.
Communicate the message that adults at church are responsible and empowered to care for children and to monitor behavior.
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Other Administrative Ideas
Create and maintain an organization chart with ministry descriptions and contact points.
Combine the administration of LIFE & AfterLIFE
Create an organization for Young Marrieds and Older Singles
Combine the administration of Children’s Church, Age Graded Sunday School, and Age Integrated Sunday School
Other Communication ideas:
* Improve Signage and Bulletin Boards
* Improve the calendar and reservation System
* Improve volunteer coordination
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