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This Nineveh's Crossing IDEA BOOK outlines why a Sunday School program is a Best Practice for faith formation at the parish level. It provides a robust and flexible plan that has been perfected over the last 100 years by our Evangelical brothers and sisters. Every parish needs to read this and act.
Why does the Catholic Church in the United States deliberately stop the moral education of its youth at the most dangerous point in their spiritual lives ...adolescence?
Ask just about any Catholic and they'll tell you their last catechism class was when they were confirmed around the time they were just becoming teenagers... when the hormones, awkwardness, and questions about the world started to kick in. That was it! They were set for life! ...or so the Church thought ...not.
In this Nineveh's Crossing IDEA BOOK, Stan and Pam Williams, converts to Catholicism from Evangelical Protestantism, share with parish leaders the successful religious education program that solidified their faith, their children's faith, and their 10 grandhchildren's faith in Christ and the Bible. It was and still is called "Sunday School."
Both professional educators, the Williamses believe the biggest problem in Catholic Religious Education is the lack of a flexible, robust educaiton program that is easy for the entire family to attend, and which runs every Sunday, for pre-schoolers through adults of all ages. That's right! ..."cradle to grave."
The U.S. Catholic Bishops remind us:
"The Church wisely and repeatedly insists that adult faith formation must be situated not at the periphery of the Church's educational mission but at its center...and continues until one's death."
(Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us: A Pastoral Plan for Adult Faith Formation in the United States, USCCB, 1999, page 14.)
TOPICS
- Educational Goal
- Educational Objective
- Measurerable Objectives
- The Catholic Problem
- The Causes / The Solutions
- A Case Study
- Sample Bulletin Flyer
- Best Practices Attributes
- When and Where
- Money / Costs
- Leadership and Personnel
- Teachers
- Participants / Students
- Agenda / Group Structure
- Courseware / Class Topics / Curriculum
- Instructional Techniques / Strategies
- Appendix: The Dynamics of Small Groups
