The Joy Of Sunday Schooling (Part 6 of 0)

Have You Tried This? – Part 6

Go online. There is a wealth of Christadelphian Sunday school material waiting to be discovered and put to use. Three Sunday school programs in the brotherhood now offer at least some material online:

  • The Christadelphian Sunday School Union (UK)
  • The Australian Christadelphian Sunday School Union
  • The Christadelphian Sunday School Association (Australia)

Simply put, these committees have posted teaching material on their websites that can be downloaded and used for free. All three sites can be accessed from the Sunday School Lessons board on my Pinterest site (www.pinterest.com/2harps4u/) or at the web addresses given below.1The sites are worth exploring.

Christadelphian Sunday School Union (UK) – http://www.cssu.org.uk/

If you are looking for a source of Sunday school lessons for all ages, you will find it on the Christadelphian Sunday School Union (UK) website. Nearly all the CSSU lessons — for pre-readers up to teens — are now posted on the site and can be downloaded for free. Over 500 lessons are available. They provide teacher notes and student activities for most of the lessons that used to be available only in book form.2The CSSU site is also a collecting point for Sunday school plays that feature a wide variety of Bible themes. Many of these can be downloaded and printed, ready to use. The site is easy to navigate.

Australian Christadelphian Sunday School Union – http://acssu.org.au/

The Australian Christadelphian Sunday School Union is beginning to make its lessons available for download. Much of the Kindergarten (ages 4-5) material is now online, and Senior (ages 15 and up) material is coming online.3ACSSU is embedding active resource links in its teacher notes. This is a unique feature of the site, and the links are very useful. They not only take you to outside sources of free teaching materials for any given lesson; they provide direct access to Christa­delphian resources as well. A set of Sunday school projects for all ages and several Sunday school plays are available for download from the ACSSU site.

Christadelphian Sunday School Association (Australia) – http://www.cssa.asn.au/

The Christadelphian Sunday School Association, Australia, has updated its website and added some attractive new features. While lesson books must still be ordered separately, virtually all of the CSSA activity sheets, for all age levels, are available for free download.4This represents a lot of teaching material. In addition, more than 160 Sunday school plays are available, covering a complete range of Bible themes. Don’t be put off by the User login box that appears on the CSSA home page. You do not have to log in to access the free materials and download them.

And here is a fourth site to explore with Sunday school in mind …

This Is Your Bible – http://www.thisisyourbible.com/

“This Is Your Bible” is the English language website of the Christadelphian Bible Missions (ACBM, CBM, CBMA and CBMC). Its purposes are educational. If you have been wracking your brain what to do with an older teen class, why not enroll them in one of the online Bible courses that TIYB offers? Exploring the Bible and Learn to Read the Bible Effectively are two of the courses available, each with something different to offer. As online students, your teens will interact with a Christadelphian tutor and you become their learning facilitator, monitoring their progress and discussing the lessons with them.5

The TIYB site can also be used by your students as a research site. It has a large library of pamphlets on Bible subjects. It also provides answers to many commonly asked Bible questions. Here is something to do: assign a Bible research question to your older students and encourage them to use the TIYB website for information.

  1. My Pinterest site is entirely devoted to Christadelphian Sunday schooling. More will be said about it in the September issue of The Tidings.
  2. Hardcopies of most CSSU materials are still available and can be ordered online, prices listed.
  3. A 2014 order form for hardcopies of the ACSSU materials can be printed from the website, prices listed.
  4. A full range of CSSA products can be ordered directly from the website, prices listed.
  5. Hard copies of Exploring the Bible and Learn to Read the Bible Effectively materials can be downloaded and printed by Sunday school teachers who are registered TIYB tutors. Four other Bible Mission courses and Exploring the Bible can be downloaded and printed from the Sunday School Lessons board on my Pinterest site.