Cool Tools for Sabbath School
In cooperation with the International Sabbath School Teachers’ Association, this page offers a robust online source of ways to enrich your Sabbath School. It provides downloadable articles and activities to enhance the preparation of teachers and leaders. And many of them are great ideas for personal projects too!
In addition to the four basic dynamics of a vibrant Sabbath School (Bible study, fellowship, outreach, and mission), the resources available in this library are organized under topics that pertain to Sabbath School. When you need some help in the development of your skills in teaching and leadership, take some time to explore the resources available here. Share what you find here with others who are in leadership positions for your local Sabbath School. And return to this page often; we’ll be adding resources regularly!
Branch Sabbath School
- VIDEO of Branch Sabbath School in Nigeria (47 MB) (courtesy of Adventist Mission)
- The Branch Sabbath School Leader
- Running a Branch Sabbath School
Drama
Fellowship
- Connectors for Christ
- Eggs and encouragement
- Fifty icebreaker discussion starters
- Guidelines for greeters
- Help heal the pain of divorce
- Helping caregivers
- Hospitality forecast
- How to encourage the depressed
- Training hosts
- Turn up your hospitality
- Who needs fellowship?
Investment
- A year’s worth of bulletin messages
- Investment in Dodge Center
- Productive investments
- Setting goals
- Sabbath School Investment Ideas
- Your investment makes a big difference
Mission
- A month for missions
- Care packages they’ll crave
- How to pray globally
- Improving your mission report
- Nine ideas for global-minded Sabbath Schools
- Pitcairn captain’s log
- Your mission heritage (PowerPoint)
Music
Outreach
- An investment in learning
- Approaches to hospital visitation
- Building a vision for your community
- Caroling and candy canes
- Christmas parties that travel
- Literature outreach for Sabbath School
- Mercy in a minute
- Ministering to the sight-impaired
- One hundred ways to be kind
- Outreach as citizens
- Outreach possibilities
- Ready for action
- Starting friendships
- Strips of kindness
- The little Sabbath School that could
- The mother book
- Witnessing with Bible Readings for the Home
Prayer
- Awareness of God prayers
- New ways with the Lord’s Prayer
- Package your power in prayer
- Prayer in a basket
- Prayer patrol
- Prayers for forgiveness
- Prayers of thanks
- Prayers without words
- Praying for others
- Praying for your local community
- Revitalizing public prayer
- Special occasion prayers
- Visual prayers
Secretarial
- A job description
- Communicate your vision
- Going the extra mile
- Keep your finger on the pulse
- Networking power tips
- The job with many hats
- The write rules for secretaries
- The super seven
- Using visual aids
Superintendence
- A question of space
- Come early
- Developing monthly themes
- Do you have a passion for souls?
- Getting real in Sabbath School
- Give your classes an identity
- Going postal over attendance
- How to attract men to Sabbath School
- How to make Sabbath School yours
- Meeting their needs
- Organizational ideas
- Resource list
- Sabbath School council meetings
- Sabbath School potpourri
- Space — the final frontier
- Suggestions for new superintendents
- Teacher commitment service
- The Sabbath School Personal Ministries team
- Things that mattered
- Time wise
Teaching
- Aim for growth
- A change in perspective
- Bible-learning activities
- Class participation
- Current Sabbath School studies (teacher and student)
- Decision-making and problem-solving
- Digging deep in the Word
- Fill in the blanks
- Five ways to improve as a teacher
- Get them into the Word
- Growing disciples through transformational learning
- Guidelines for exegesis
- Holy hobbies
- How do your questions grow?
- How to use kinesthetic activities
- Interactive Bible projects
- Learning from the news
- Learn the learning styles
- Learning Styles in Sabbath School
- Learning Styles Inventory
- Listening in Sabbath School
- Making the lesson practicable
- Multiple intelligences
- Object lessons
- Principles of biblical interpretation
- Questioning guidelines
- Small group guidelines 101
- Stirring things up with questions
- Tell me a story
- The caring Sabbath School class
- The influence of gender
- The value of questionnaires
- Transformational Sabbath School for Youth
- What groups are really about