Sunday School Teachers Workshop

Sunday School teachers from five churches in the Gweru Baptist Association recently came together for a workshop. The children’s teachers met together, the superintendent’s met together, and the teachers of youth, young adult, and adults met in another group. Donna Fort facilitated the latter group.

During the first session we discussed the original two reasons for which Sunday School came into being: 1) to win the lost and bring them into the church, 2) to teach God’s Word to Christians and help them become mature in their faith, leading them to actively engage in spiritual disciplines such as prayer, Bible Study, witnessing, discipling others and fellowshipping with other believers. As part of the workshop, teachers were asked to share their testimony briefly with their partners.

Then they were encouraged to write down all the names of people they could think of who were lost so they could begin praying for them and look for opportunities to witness to them.

The teachers were encouraged to take one Sunday School class and teach a lesson on evangelism and then begin to hold their class members accountable for witnessing. In the second session Donna taught a lesson where “class members” were engaged in active participation and discussion. (This is different from the typical lecture style that many Sunday School teachers here use.) Participants had an opportunity to discover truths for themselves and then think of ways they could apply those truths in their own lives. It was a lively and at times humorous discussion and the teachers seemed very keen to try this “new” teaching method in their classes.