Building a New Hope for the Sunday School

A week after my last post, I now have our theme for the new Sunday School year. (Hint: Read the title)I look forward to revealing it to the church during our Annual Planning Conference on Saturday. Leaders, please attend this event. This is an important event for planning for the next church/Sunday School year. Kits for Kids is also this Saturday, but there is also a training event Friday night for leaders. I will be there and I hope you will too.
Also, I finished the Sunday School manual today. Now we can begin using it to help grow our Sunday School and implement events such as VBS for 2011.
I still need 5 positions filled, if you would like to volunteer for a position, let me know:

Sunday School Secretary

Preschool Department Director

Children Department Director

Youth Department Director

Kindergarten Sunday School Teacher

Prayer Breakfast and More

I went to Shoney's for Waldrop's monthly men's prayer breakfast. It was a good time of prayer and fellowship and a great selection of good food at the breakfast buffet.
After breakfast Jerry, Gordon, and myself went to the church and met to plan for the annual planning conference. Members, please make plans to attend the Annual Planning Conference at the church on Saturday July 24 at 1:00 after Kits for Kids at the Chester A. Arthur Recreation Center at 9:00. It will be part of a busy week for me.
I completed two more tabs on the manual since Sunday's blog. Things are really beginning to come together on the overall vision and plan for the Sunday School.
I also finished all my letters for the Sunday School leaders and will send them out Wednesday night.
Let me leave with a question: I am working on a theme for the new Sunday School year but I am not sure what to say. I would like it to emphasize the new beginning in the Sunday School since this will be the first year I will be able to organize my complete Sunday School vision since becoming director. Do you have any ideas?
Let me know.

Big Sunday!

I am so excited over the events and progress being made today! I had my first preparation meeting with my new youth teacher and I will be observing his first action next Sunday.
Soon after that, Mike Bixler agreed to become my second Administrative Assistant. The new administration is set up like so:

Sunday School Director - Troy Bartlett

Administrative Assistant of Records - Clay Bartlett

Administrative Assistant of Literature - Mike Bixler

I am also preparing to meet with other prospects for other positions later this week.
I completed three more tabs of the Sunday School manual and now have only eight of the fifteen tabs left to complete.
I have been working on preparations for Waldrop's first ever Sunday School Kick-off. We will have a meeting at 4:30 followed by our first fellowship meal since the end of school at 5:30. Finally, we will meet for our commissioning service at 6:30 with guest speaker Jimmy Blanton of the CBA.
I also made a letter for all Sunday School leaders inviting them to attend the GBA's Sunday School Training Session in Albany. I will be giving it out Wednesday.
I have to go to the prayer breakfast Tuesday. I will probably be post another blog then.

Manual Work

I've been working on the Sunday School Manual a lot lately. I have finished most of what I needed for the Introduction, calendar, and recruitment sections. I am currently working on the Prepare/Train/Evaluate section of the manual. Last night I completed the event outline for our Sunday School Kick-off on September 1st! This will help us plan and prepare for any event in the future by giving us a guideline to follow. I want to work on the Sunday School Leader Preparation Training Event Timeline next.
I still need to recruit some leaders before September:

Sunday School Secretary
Preschool/Children/Youth Department Director
Kindergarten Teacher

If you know of anyone who could serve in these positions let me know.