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Please sit with at least 6 people per table . You will represent a Sunday School Planning Team.

Please sit with at least 6 people per table . You will represent a Sunday School Planning Team. Welcome to Session 5 Building a Strategy for My Sunday School. How important is focus when taking a picture?. How important is focus for your Sunday School?. Jesus gave focus to His disciples….

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Please sit with at least 6 people per table . You will represent a Sunday School Planning Team.

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  1. Please sit with at least 6 people per table.You will represent a Sunday School Planning Team. Welcome to Session 5 Building a Strategy for My Sunday School

  2. How important is focus when taking a picture?

  3. How important is focus for your Sunday School?

  4. Jesus gave focus to His disciples… Then Jesus came near and said to them, All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age. Matthew 28:18-20 (HCSB)

  5. The BIG question.Does your Sunday School spend its time, energy, and resources on accomplishing its focus/purpose?

  6. We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. John 9:4-5 (HCSB)

  7. The group of 6 people at your tablerepresents a Sunday School Planning Team. Pastor Sunday School Director Adult Student Children Preschool

  8. Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisors they succeed. Proverbs 15:22 (HCSB)

  9. As the men prepared to go, Joshua commanded them to write down a description of the land, saying, “Go and survey the land, write a description of it, and return to me.” Joshua 18:8 (HCSB)

  10. A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord determines his steps. Proverbs 16:9 (HCSB)

  11. Finalize plans through counsel. Proverbs 20:18 (HCSB)

  12. Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisors they succeed. Proverbs 15:22 (HCSB)

  13. Sunday School planning is best done with “counsel.”

  14. 2 1 3 5 4 1

  15. Step 1 Prayerfully determine your VISION for your Sunday School

  16. Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen. For by it our ancestors were approved. Hebrews 11:1-2 (HCSB)

  17. Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)

  18. VISION INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT Page 3 3

  19. INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT Vision 3 Individually… Reread the Sunday School definition. Reflect on the past two days. What vision for your Sunday School has God begun to impress on your heart? Write In the template (diagram) your personal vision for your Sunday School.

  20. VISION GROUP ASSIGNMENT Page 4 4

  21. GROUP ASSIGNMENTVision 4 “Go and survey the land, write a description of it, and return to me.” Joshua 18:8 (HCSB) • Step 1 • Begin this exercise by reading Joshua 18:8. • Step 2 • Share the individual Sunday School vision statements written by each person at the table. • Step 3 • As a table, representing the work of a Sunday School Planning Team, write a consolidated vision for your Sunday School. Use the template on your table to record your vision.

  22. VISION Share your group’s vision. 4

  23. Is your Sunday School doing things now that strategically move youtoward that description?

  24. Step 2 EVALUATEthe work of your Sunday School to DETERMINE NEEDS

  25. EVALUATION & NEEDS • Evaluation is the process of looking at the present state of your Sunday School. • It answers the question “Where are we now?” • The discovery of strengths and weaknesses should be seen as a positive step toward charting the future work of the Sunday School. 5

  26. EVALUATION & NEEDS INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT Page 5 5

  27. INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT Evaluation and Needs 5 You are on your Sunday School Planning Team Retreat. You have just completed writing your vision. Now… • List thevictoriesyou have experienced over the past year that have moved your Sunday School toward becoming the Sunday School described in your vision statement. • List the needs that have kept your Sunday School from becoming like the Sunday School described in your vision statement and the definition of the Sunday School.

  28. EVALUATION & NEEDS GROUP ASSIGNMENT Page 6 6

  29. GROUP ASSIGNMENT Evaluation and Needs 6 You are on your Sunday School Planning Team Retreat. You have just completed doing evaluation or your area. Now… • Step 1 • Each person at the table briefly share one major victory and one major need of your Sunday School. • Step 2 • As a table, representing the work of a Sunday School Planning Team, write the five top needs represented by your group.

  30. Evaluation could include the following: • Great Commission • Purpose of the Sunday School • Flake’s five-step formula • Ten best practices • Sunday School Growth and Evaluation Plan • Church and Sunday School records • Functions of the church • Sunday School Growth Worksheet 7

  31. Step 3 Determine PRIORITIESin the needs discovered through your evaluation

  32. PRIORITY 8

  33. Finalize plans through counsel. Proverbs 20:18 (HCSB)

  34. GROUP ASSIGNMENTPriority 8 You have just completed evaluating your Sunday School and determining needs. Now… • Using the list of needs you have just compiled, determine the top three priorities of your Sunday School and write them on the template on your table. 8

  35. Top priority Based on your experiences this weekend and your evaluation of your Sunday School, if you were asked today to list the number 1 priority, what would it be?

  36. Step 4 Determine the IMPROVEMENT you want to make in each priority area

  37. IMPROVEMENT DESIRED 9

  38. GROUP ASSIGNMENTImprovement Desired 9 You are on your Sunday School Planning Team Retreat. You have determined your number 1 priority. Now… • As a Sunday School Planning Team, take that priority need and write a statement regarding the improvement you want your Sunday School to make in that area. Write that statement in the template on your table.

  39. Examples of Improvement Statements • During the coming year, each Sunday School leader will be enlisted personally by the person to whom he or she is responsible. • During the coming year, 90% of our workers will receive specific training on understanding and using their teaching resources.

  40. Step 5 Plan ACTIONS to accomplish improvement

  41. A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord determines his steps. Proverbs 16:9

  42. ACTIONS 10

  43. 10 GROUP ASSIGNMENTActions You are on your Sunday School Planning Team Retreat. You have determined the improvement you desire for your number 1 priority. Now… • As a Sunday School Planning Team determine four actions you could take as a Sunday School to accomplish the improvement desired for your Sunday School’s number one priority. Write the four actions in the template on your table.

  44. Page 11 Action plans worksheet

  45. Pages 12-13 Schedules for annual strategy planning

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