Return of the Sunday School Leadership Meeting

The Sunday School leadership meetings are back, and better than ever. The meetings will be Sundays from 9:15 until 9:30 beginning this Sunday October 25 in the library. During this meeting, many things will be discussed, such as the Sunday School D.R.I.V.E., the purpose and order of the meetings, a survey, and some announcements.
I would like to present an updated mission for the Sunday School. It is called the Sunday School D.R.I.V.E. One of the purposes of the meetings is to begin to implement and focus on our mission for the Sunday School. This mission was created to simplify our goals and mission and still cover all the major areas needed for Sunday School growth. The mission verse is Revelations 3:20 "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come into him and will sup with him, and he with me." The five goals of the Sunday School Drive are:

Devote ourselves to God

Reach out and openly enroll
Instruct others to serve and create new classes through Bible-based teaching
Victory! Save souls and baptize
Enjoy Christian fellowships and minister to the members

We will discuss the first goal during the month of November.

The Sunday School meetings will have another purpose: It will be used as a model for teachers to observe how things can be done in a classroom. The order of these short 15 minute meetings will be much like a Sunday School class setup.

Fellowship 9:10
Opening Prayer/Announcements 9:15
Mission Focus/ Leadership Reports 9:20
Pastor's Words 9:25
Prayer 9:29
End 9:30

Note that the meetings will start at 9:15 and end at 9:30. This first meeting will not follow this outline, but future meetings will. Everything in the meetings can be used in the classroom, but are not required.
The need to find leaders is vital to church growth. I will give out a Sunday School survey for the leaders to fill out in order for me to find your greatest strengths which can help me establish roles for our meetings on Sunday. The surveys will not take long as there are only 35 questions.
Finally, it is important for me to give out information to you. It is best and easiest to provide the information in person in these meetings to add valuable discussion when needed. Janet Zayas wants us to start thinking about when we receive all those names from the Fall Festival
next Saturday. If you have any announcements you wish to report, please let me know before Sunday so I can announce it. It is important with our limited time that we do not go off point or get caught up in lengthy discussions. For my last announcement, please watch this video about the Georgia Baptist Convention's Annual Meeting on November 8-10. Let me know what you think.

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