Should you have any comments pertaining to the content of these lessons, please do contact Alice Mugglestone at . And as the end of the year draws quickly to an end, do keep in mind the true meaning of Christmas! God bless you all! Dioceses of Johannesburg Children’s ministry Advent prayer As we fast approach Christmas, We will be preparing our homes, our gifts and our food. Help us, Lord, to remember to prepare our hearts. Help us in all our busyness, To remember the reason for the season Help us to be like Jesus and bring love, hope and peace to all. Amen About this Curriculum We believe that we have designed a curriculum that is unique to other Sunday school programmes. We aim to provide the children with a firm knowledge of stories from both the New and Old Testaments, while at the same time, observing the Seasons of the Anglican Church and the readings as set out in the lectionary. As Anglicans, we would very much like to follow the lectionary as closely as possible as it offers a richness to our faith. There are, however, a number of obstacles associated with this when trying to design a Sunday school Curriculum: The Sunday Lectionary readings do not always follow on from one week to the next hence the children do not get a sense of the chronological order of events of the Bible. Not all the Bible stories that children should know are covered in the Sunday readings. Stories that come up during the holiday period are never covered. Sometimes two stories that we would like to cover come up in the same week e.g. The Story of Jacob and Esau and Jesus feeds the five thousand (Year A, 18th Sunday of the Year) , while other weeks may have readings that are not that applicable to children. This curriculum has been devised to follow all the stories and themes for a year as prescribed in the lectionary, but not necessarily the order of the lectionary. Topics that do correspond with the lectionary reading for the day have been indicated with a *. Each year will begin with stories relating to the life of Jesus, miracles and parables. We will then move into Lent with topics relating to a special Lenten theme. After Easter the topics chosen for the second term will relate to going out into the world to live a life for Jesus. The third and fourth term will focus on the Old Testament stories. The section from the Old Testament that the lectionary focuses on for a particular year will be covered:
Should you have any comments pertaining to the content of these lessons, please do contact Alice Mugglestone at . And as the end of the year draws quickly to an end, do keep in mind the true meaning of Christmas! God bless you all! Dioceses of Johannesburg Children’s ministry Advent prayer As we fast approach Christmas, We will be preparing our homes, our gifts and our food. Help us, Lord, to remember to prepare our hearts. Help us in all our busyness, To remember the reason for the season Help us to be like Jesus and bring love, hope and peace to all. Amen About this Curriculum We believe that we have designed a curriculum that is unique to other Sunday school programmes. We aim to provide the children with a firm knowledge of stories from both the New and Old Testaments, while at the same time, observing the Seasons of the Anglican Church and the readings as set out in the lectionary. As Anglicans, we would very much like to follow the lectionary as closely as possible as it offers a richness to our faith. There are, however, a number of obstacles associated with this when trying to design a Sunday school Curriculum: The Sunday Lectionary readings do not always follow on from one week to the next hence the children do not get a sense of the chronological order of events of the Bible. Not all the Bible stories that children should know are covered in the Sunday readings. Stories that come up during the holiday period are never covered. Sometimes two stories that we would like to cover come up in the same week e.g. The Story of Jacob and Esau and Jesus feeds the five thousand (Year A, 18th Sunday of the Year) , while other weeks may have readings that are not that applicable to children. This curriculum has been devised to follow all the stories and themes for a year as prescribed in the lectionary, but not necessarily the order of the lectionary. Topics that do correspond with the lectionary reading for the day have been indicated with a *. Each year will begin with stories relating to the life of Jesus, miracles and parables. We will then move into Lent with topics relating to a special Lenten theme. After Easter the topics chosen for the second term will relate to going out into the world to live a life for Jesus. The third and fourth term will focus on the Old Testament stories. The section from the Old Testament that the lectionary focuses on for a particular year will be covered:
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