Sunday School Roundtable Chats

A new series of live Web chats sponsored by TMC Youth

Part 8: Teaching the First Lessons

With Susie Jostyn, Matthew Hoffman, the Solo Committee, and Jill Gooding, C. S. B.

Monday, May 11, 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. EDT

Please join us for our continuing series of live chats with Sunday School teachers and superintendents around the world. This month, we'll continue our new multimedia approach—incorporating video, graphics, audio, and more—as we explore this central topic.

In Sunday School, children are taught about the Scriptures. What a huge topic!! Where should we start as teachers? The Church Manual provision for the Christian Science Sunday School identifies strategic "first lessons," including the "Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:3-17), the Lord's Prayer (Matt. 6:9-13), and its Spiritual Interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy, Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5:3-12)." But are these lessons only for the littlest children? What about a 19-year-old attending Sunday School for the first time? If these are universal lessons, how can we dig deep into their meaning and customize the way we teach them to individual students and classes?

Susie Jostyn will host Matthew Hoffman, an experienced Sunday School teacher and community volunteer; members of the Christian folk trio, The Solo Committee, who write songs to help kids learn about God; andJill Gooding C. S. B., Christian Science practitioner and teacher. They'll all provide answers to the above questions and those submitted live by listeners, based on the Church Manual, as well as their collective experience.

The chat will be hosted and questions can be sent in live online in English on http://tmcyouth.com/media/part-8-teaching-the-first-lessons/. The Reading Room at 194 Massachusetts Ave. in Boston, MA will be open to the public and local Sunday School teachers to participate via computer.

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.

Download the replay and other media files:

• iPod Video: View the full video version replay (right-click to save)
• Audio: Listen to the full audio version replay (right-click to save)
• iPod Video: View the 2nd commmandment animation (right-click to save)
• Audio: Listen to the 2nd commmandment animation (right-click to save)
• Song: G is for God by the Solo Committee (right-click to save)