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Developing a Sunday School Curriculum to bring religious education into your child’s life

The goal for developing a Sunday school curriculum should be to foster relationships with Jesus Christ, by guiding the children to learn the Bible in a way that is appropriate to their ages and backgrounds. Religious education can be tailored to provide children and adults of all ages a way to learn about God, to explore the Bible creatively and actively, and grow their faith in a contemporary society. The Sunday school curriculum often compliments and enriches the material you’re already covering when homeschooling, or it can be the religious education component of your homeschooling curriculum.

A strong Sunday school curriculum should be committed to using the Bible as a building block of religious education for children, and as a source of strength through life. Finding a church that provides this type of curriculum for your children is as important to the Christian family as the decision for homeschooling was. The values and morals taught by the church provide the structure and training necessary in guiding children toward a life long relationship with God.

There is a multitude of books and online resources that exist to assist teachers developing a Sunday school curriculum that will provide the highest quality religious education possible. Parents who are homeschooling their Christian children make excellent candidates for Sunday school teachers, as many of the topics they cover on a daily basis can be integrated and applied in a Sunday school environment. There are even complete “how-to” guides that walk you step by step in creating your curriculum, and helping to develop ideas that you have.