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PHASING IN SUNDAY SCHOOL Ken Braddy LifeWay Christian Resources Director of Sunday School How do you canoe over mountains? YOU DONT . If you want to move forward, you change. You adaptWe go from being river rats to mountain

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PHASING IN SUNDAY SCHOOL

Ken Braddy LifeWay Christian Resources Director of Sunday School

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How do you canoe

ver mountains?
YOU DON’T. If you want to move forward,

you change. You adapt…We go from being river rats to mountain climbers. We keep on course with the same goal, but change absolutely everything required to make it through uncharted territory. We ditch canoes, ask for help, find horses, and cross the mountains. And when the time comes, we make new boats

ut of burnt trees” – Canoeing The Mountains,

p.34

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Phasing in Sunday School

Managing

01

Returning

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Reorienting

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Adjusting

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Expectation 1: A full return to normal Expectation 2: A fast return to normal Expectation 3: A familiar return to normal

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What emotions are your people feeling? What questions do they have? What angers them? Confuses them?

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Beware the “neutral zone” – it is both a dangerous and

pportune place
“T

“Transit itio ions st start with end ending ngs”

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1. Staffing
2. Training
3. Allocating
4. Adding

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Less campus-centric/more

missionary mindset/outward focus

Classrooms convert to Zoom Rooms
Some groups 100% online
Non-Sunday A.M. options become

emerge

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New Class Leadership Roles (PDFs & Word Docs of these positions and their job descriptions are available)

Digital Adult Group Director
Digital Adult Group Leader
Digital Adult Group Host
Digital Adult Group Member Care
Digital Support Volunteer
Digital Porch Drop-off Coordinator
Digital Porch Drop-off Volunteer

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Led by the pastor
Evaluate your decisions
ften
Consult trusted advisors
Communicate with

church members often

Pivot quickly as needed

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Just a reminder…

Continue to monitor CDC guidelines, the

guidelines set in place by your governor, and your state’s health department

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Spanish flu (1917-1918) was devastating.

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Fo For 2 years Sp Spani nish sh Fl Flu was in in th the news ws da dail ily

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SEATTLE POLICEMEN DURING THE SPANISH FLU PANDEMIC

1918

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We We’re not the firs first famil ilie ies to we wear masks bec because o e of a a pa pandem emic…

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“At the very time of greatest stress came the epidemic of influenza, and this was perhaps the most far-reaching hindrance to Sunday-school work which has been known in a generation…The influence of the epidemic stayed with us through December, but the bright sun- shiny months of the opening year gave re reassura

rance. Our

Su Sunday schools ral allied, bus busine ness be became more no normal, co conditions improved, and the working force ce of the Board re resumed its normal opera

rations. We had anticipated

that it would take many months for the Sunday schools to rally, but they came back in March. There flowed in a ste steady str stream of orders, wh which indicate ted th that t th the Su Sunday-sc school hosts sts were well organized, full of pu purpo pose, and had rallied themselves. As a result, the ye year, which had been so trying for many y months, ended fu full of hope and promise.” (pp.449-450)

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According to SBC an annual al meeting records from 1919, 2 good things happened because of the Span anish Flu…

RENEWED NEED/INTEREST IN TRAINING GROUPS/CHURCHES GREW

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Ar Arthur ur Fla lake, the “Father of

Sunday Schoo

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in in the e SBC

Director of Sunday School 1920-1936

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