So, you're ready to go multi-level with your children's sabbath school? AWESOME! Let's get started!

 

Below is a checklist to help you organize the process:

 

and....GO!

DOWNLOAD A PRINTABLE CHECKLIST HERE

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WARM UP

• PRAY!
• _____Make an outline of the whole program—account for every minute (see the program outline in the example schedule)

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   CHURCH LOGISTICS

• _____Decide where your worship spaces will be
  • _____Combined worship time: ______________________________
  • _____Separate class worship time: _____________________________
    • _____Get the "okay" from your pastor and church board if it is a space that isn't already being used by children's sabbath school

• _____Take stalk of your AV capabilities:
  • _____TV or Projector with HDMI
  • _____Screen or Wall (not needed with TV)
    • _____Connect with your AV team to talk about and set up what you need

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   TEAM LOGISTICS 

• _____Make a list of your teachers and volunteers (see the staff list in the example schedule)
  • _____Add staff email and phone # if possible
  • _____Make a preliminary schedule (see the program schedule in the example schedule)
    • _____Fill yourself into the schedule.
    • _____Fill in your teachers when they are currently teaching
    • _____Fill in your volunteers when they are currently serving

• _____Connect with your teachers and plan a date to meet on a sabbath afternoon.
• _____Plan what you will discuss
  • _____Schedule
  • _____Program outline
  • _____Divy team member responsibilities
  • _____Curriculum planning
  • _____Visioning for equipping parents
• _____Give all staff editing access to the google sheet example schedule.

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•  _____Have the Sabbath School Meeting
  • Discuss:  

PROGRAM LOGISTICS

• PRAY!
• _____Schedule
• _____Program outline
• _____SET A LAUNCH DATE
  • date:_______________________________
• _____Curriculum planning (see team sabbath school checklist &  children's sabbath school lesson checklist)
• _____Decide when to meet for lesson collaboration. (record details on curriculum colab in the example schedule)
  • date:______________________________

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ROLE LOGISTICS

_____Divy team member responsibilities

• _____Room decorator(s): ______________________________
• _____Powerpoint Creator: ______________________________ (see/download example power point to use as a template)
• _____Combined worship leader (can change every sabbath - see program schedule in the example schedule)
• _____Music options
  • video / Musicians_________________________ (schedule in program schedule in the example schedule)
    • Sources for music videos:
    • Search youtube: SDA VBS (see example)
    •  Group Music Videos for purchase.

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SMALL GROUP LOGISTICS     

      _____Set dates for:

• _____Beginning quarter parent meeting to discuss theme of quarter and how to use the take home sabbath school material (this could be one of the social/spiritual get togethers)
• _____Monthly service project (see small group components in the example schedule)
  • Host (can be a non-teacher parent)___________________________________
  • date:_______________________________
• _____Monthly social/spiritual get togethers (see small group components in the example schedule)
  • Host (can be a non-teacher parent)___________________________________
  • date:_______________________________

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•  PRAY!
• Talk about new sabbath school structure in the main church service multiple times.
  • _____Prepare
  • _____AV set up
  • _____Room décor set up
  • _____Review Curriculum – collaboration
  • _____Team is READY!

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• PRAY!
  • _____Execute Plan!

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• PRAY!
• _____Debrief
  • What worked?
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  • Can we do even better?
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  • What didn’t work?
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  • What can we do differently?
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• _____Repeat! 

 

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