MULTI-LEVEL SABBATH SCHOOL – Washington Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

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!

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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)

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

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.

_____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:______________________________

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.

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:_______________________________

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!

PRAY!
- _____Execute Plan!

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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