Sunday School Roundtable Chats

A new series of live Web chats sponsored by TMC Youth

Part 5: Sunday School Resources

With Susie Rynerson Jostyn and Chet Manchester

Monday, November 17, 2008, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET

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Please join us for our continuing series of live chats with Sunday School teachers and superintendents around the world. This month, we'll explore an arena that has lots of room for expression and adaptation: Sunday School resources.

At the heart of Sunday School there are three primary resources defined in the Church Manual by Mary Baker Eddy: the Bible, the weekly Bible Lesson and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs. Eddy. But what is the best way to instruct students "according to their understanding or ability to grasp the simpler meanings of the divine Principle they are taught?" Many of today's students find it helpful and inspiring to learn via a wide variety of media including video, graphics, audio, games, and interactive web media. Using these wisely in a lesson plan can make for a rich, engaging experience for everyone. So how can this media be used to introduce the ideas of "absolute Christian Science" and successfully lead students back to the Scriptures and "their textbook," Science and Health? How can Sunday School teachers around the world share with each other when they create things that work really well in their classes?

Listeners to this chat are invited to send in questions live via computer. Susie Rynerson Jostyn and Chet Manchester of TMC Youth will provide answers based on their collective experience as students and teachers and will present a few new resources available on the Internet, on tmcyouth.com, and used in branch churches around the world.

The chat will be hosted live in English on www.tmcyouth.com. Everyone is also invited to stop by the Reading Room at 194 Massachusetts Ave. in Boston, MA to listen in with the public and a group of local Sunday School teachers.

If you can't join the chat, you can post questions beforehand in the Sunday School Discussion Forum on the website and listen to the recorded chat afterwards.

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