By David Nelson. Equip for Ministry will be featuring selected churches in the PCA excelling in the ministry of making kingdom disciples. The following article features First Presbyterian Church of Stanley, NC., Dan King senior pastor. The article by David Nelson, associate pastor of Christian ed...
Tag: Children’s Ministries
Does Curriculum Make a Difference?
I am responding to two related questions below that focus on curriculum, the main topic in this edition of Equip for Ministry. One is what difference does it make what curriculum we use in our church? A second question has come from pastors who basically ask, why should I get involved i...
Evaluating Your Sunday School Curriculum
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...
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...