By Dave Matthews. Part of the church's responsibility of equipping teachers for a ministry in the church is to provide them with the proper curriculum... A major problem in churches today is choosing a curriculum that is biblically sound and faithful to a correct theological interpretation of Scr...
Category: Children
Enlarging Worlds: Hunstville Southwood PCA “Adopts” Strapped Elementary School – and It’s Families
By Amy Sherman. The members of Southwood Presbyterian Church in Huntsville, Alabama, are heavenly minded--and earthly good. The most visible example of this is the giant replica of the solar system they've constructed for Lincoln Elementary School, where 94 percent of attending children are poor ...
Realizing God’s Covenant for Children
In a training session with children's ministry leaders, a somewhat inclusive question came to us regarding infant baptism, election, covenant and evangelism. Volumes have been written on each of these, but we can only make a short response here. If you read through the PCA Book of Church Order, e...
What Would Jesus Do?
Suffice it to say that it is in the church that we ought to learn what it means to be messengers of grace wherever we are. It is in this context that we are to make disciples. We have the great privilege of self consciously bringing the influence of God's kingdom to a society dimly aware of his n...
Why Bother Catechizing Our Children
By Brad Winstead. We have our covenant children for such a short time. Why not lay a permanent foundation of truth that will never leave them? We are wiring the house of the child's mind and are waiting for the Holy Spirit to flick the switch translating the head knowledge to heart knowledge.
Off the Beaten Path
"People often ask me why I take so many detours when I speak. I just tell them it's because those I'm trying to reach don't live on the highway." As a parent and an educator, I sat there thinking about how hard we try to get children to move onto the highway so that we don't have to put up with t...