What about Easter?

What will the children in your congregation be learning on Easter? That breakfast, egg hunts, and candy are more important than Sunday School?

While it is true that volunteers can be scarce on Easter Sunday, here are four reasons not to cancel or alter Sunday School on this pivotal Sunday in the Church Year.

4. Sunday School should be a habit. This is what we do on Sunday: we go to worship and we go to Sunday School. These are the actions that make our Sabbath complete.

3. Hunting for candy and watching videos about talking vegetables pale when compared to the riches to be found in the study of God's Word.

2. Most churches will get more visitor this Sunday and any other week of the year except Christmas. Visitors equal opportunities to share the Good News of God's love in Christ with children who may have never heard it!

1. The most important reason for Sunday School on Easter? What better day can there be on which to connect the joyous celebration taking place in worship with an insightful lesson about the blessings of the resurrection?

God's blessings as you teach God's children His Word this Easter Sunday!

Three Web Sites to Check Out

There are millions of Web sites out there, hundreds (if not thousands) of them devoted to Sunday School resources. Here are three you should know about.

• Growing in Christ http://sites/cph.org/sundayschool/ This Web site was created when the Growing in Christ Sunday School materials were released by in 2006. It is updated regularly in a couple of areas. Under "Podcasts and Downloads," any corrections that need to be made to material already distributed for use are posted here. This also one route to the "Seeds of Faith" podcasts, a weekly discussion of the Bible accounts in the Growing in Christ curriculum (click on "Learn More" under "Podcasts"). The next lesson's discussion should come up first; pervious lessons are archived. Once you have started the player, you can click on the progress bar in your player to skip ahead or go back in the recording. Many teacher find these podcasts invaluable to their teaching.


• SundaySchoolSpot.com http://sundayschoolspot.com/ A great place for "Growing in Christ" product information and teaching resources. Under "Teacher Spot," you can access basic information about the age-level you are teaching, view some tips, and find some additional resources. You can also access the "Seedlings" podcasts through this site.


• Bible Quizzes Onlive http://biblequizzesonline.com/ My wife created this Web site last year to promote Bible literacy and accountable reading practice. Quizzes are being created for every Bible account in the Growing in Christ curriculum, as well as for One Hundred Bible Stories, the popular Bible story book from CPH. The quizzes are written to follow both the NIV and ESV translations. Students can read or listen to the Bible account (ESV for Growing in Christ, NIV for One Hundred Bible Stories) and then take a ten-question quiz while receiving feedback on their answers. It's a cool site! And it's free!

What Web sites have you found helpful? What kind of resources do you find yourself looking for regularly online?