Sabbath School
Sabbath School Lessons- Second Quarter 2011 Adult Sabbath School (Ages 35 and up)
Garments of Grace: Clothing Imagery in the Bible
April 2 to June 25
 We are awash in symbols. Our language, our(hence our thoughts, even) are symbols, representations of things other than themselves. The letters of the word dog aren’t a dog or any dog. They’re a symbol, composed of type on a page, made of letters and sounds that, no matter how construed, never can be what they stand in for. The word dog, in every tongue and script, represents something bigger than itself.
Language, culture, society, politics—everything to some degree—comes to us filtered through symbols: flags, icons, pictures, slogans, idiom, art, poetry, sculpture, dance, architecture, ritual, and custom, with meanings often varying from place to place. So many things mean more than what they, in and of themselves, are.
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Young Adult Sabbath School - Collegiate Quarterly (Ages 18 - 35 )
CQ (Collegiate Quarterly) is a devotional Bible-study guide for young adults, ages 18–35, published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church®. The topics for each quarter are based on the same topics as the Adult Bible Study Guide published by the Church.
Each week’s lesson in CQ is written by seven different young adults from around the world. Even the illustrations are done by young adults. Some of the countries our writers live in are: Australia, Philippines, Jamaica, England, Kenya, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, U.S.A., Ghana, Grenada, Thailand, Sweden, and Bulgaria.
- Second Quarter 2011 Adult Sabbath School (Ages 35 and up)
Garments of Grace: Clothing Imagery in the Bible
April 2 to June 25
We are awash in symbols. Our language, our(hence our thoughts, even) are symbols, representations of things other than themselves. The letters of the word dog aren’t a dog or any dog. They’re a symbol, composed of type on a page, made of letters and sounds that, no matter how construed, never can be what they stand in for. The word dog, in every tongue and script, represents something bigger than itself.
Language, culture, society, politics—everything to some degree—comes to us filtered through symbols: flags, icons, pictures, slogans, idiom, art, poetry, sculpture, dance, architecture, ritual, and custom, with meanings often varying from place to place. So many things mean more than what they, in and of themselves, are.
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Young Adult Sabbath School - Collegiate Quarterly (Ages 18 - 35 )
CQ (Collegiate Quarterly) is a devotional Bible-study guide for young adults, ages 18–35, published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church®. The topics for each quarter are based on the same topics as the Adult Bible Study Guide published by the Church.
Each week’s lesson in CQ is written by seven different young adults from around the world. Even the illustrations are done by young adults. Some of the countries our writers live in are: Australia, Philippines, Jamaica, England, Kenya, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, U.S.A., Ghana, Grenada, Thailand, Sweden, and Bulgaria.
Lessons are provided in English, French and Spanish
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Youth Sabbath School (Ages 14 - 18)
Cornerstone Connections is part of the overall quarterly Bible study curriculum produced by the Seventh-day Adventist church for use in Sabbath School.
Cornerstone Connections is a four-year “through-the-Bible” study curriculum for young people in the teen years. It uses Ellen G. White’s Conflict of the Ages series to offer commentary on the Biblical text. The White Estate is creating adaptations of these books for young adults.
Lessons are provided in English, French and Spanish
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Earliteen Sabbath School (Ages 13, 14)
The emphasis of this curriculum is God’s kingdom of grace, being a recruited agent (steward, citizen) of that kingdom, and the battle between it and the kingdom of evil. Being in God’s kingdom requires action—being doers and not just listeners (James 1:22) of how to live as God’s agents on this earth.
The first lesson of each quarter of the two-year cycle is a different portion of the Sermon on the Mount which is “at once Christ’s inaugural address as King of the kingdom of grace and also the constitution of the kingdom” (Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. 322). After the first lesson of each quarter each of the other twelve lessons (or sets of lessons) is about a different challenge, right, or privilege in the “real-time” of being an agent of God’s kingdom. A Christian never knows what he or she will be encountering next.
Lessons are provided in English, French and Spanish
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Junior Sabbath School (Ages 10 - 12)PowerPoints Sabbath School Bible study guides, and the accompanying teacher’s guides are intended for the dynamic Bible study experience of students from ten, to whenever they enter the earliteen or the youth Sabbath School classes. Nearly all the lessons are based on a Bible story taught from the perspective of the theme message for the day?the power point. This curriculum is supplied by the Sabbath School and Personal Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventist world church headquarters.
Lessons are provided in English, French, Spanish and Dutch
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Children's Sabbath School
GraceLink is a 12-year curriculum comprising 624 lessons, all of which are firmly grounded in Scripture. Most lessons are story-based, some on scriptural references that teach a specific doctrine. Each story has been selected to develop one of the four dynamics of the GraceLink series: grace, worship, community, and service.
Because each lesson centers on a single message, each telling of a Bible story is focused—not simply “watered-down.” Often a story is revisited elsewhere in the curriculum with another point of focus. This is a thematic curriculum; only one teaching point is made at a time from a specific Bible story.
Welcome to Sabbath School
 Greetings in the name of the Lord. I want to personally welcome you
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Sabbath School Website. I trust the information on this site will
make your
service for God helpful and ease the pain for ideas. As more
information comes
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your Sabbath
school classes will be successful. Read below to discover a variety of age appropriate Sabbath School lessons designed for Adults, Young Adults, Youth, and Children.
Yours in Christ,
Oscar L. Sherrod
Sabbath School Director
The Sabbath School Coordinator-
The purpose of the Sabbath School is to make disciples for Christ.
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The purpose of the Sabbath School is to make disciples for Christ. It includes the nurture of
spiritual growth in members and prospective members, as well as the unchurched who come to
join in the fellowship, study, sharing and service. The Sabbath School exists not only to minister
to its members, but to train those members to minister to others. The Sabbath School is a school
of Christian living, not just an event on Sabbath mornings. It can include Bible study groups that
meet at other times also. Its purpose is evangelistic, not ritualistic.
Every Christian believer is called to ministry, gifted by the Holy Spirit, and in baptism
ordained for ministry (Eph. 4:11-12). In Acts 2:42-47 the Bible gives us a blueprint for the
Sabbath School. Verse 42 outlines the goals of the Sabbath School as “teaching and fellowship,”
and “breaking bread and prayer.” Verses 43-45 illustrate the strong sense of togetherness, caring
and support that must be present in the Sabbath School in order to create a proper atmosphere
for learning and growth. Verse 46 indicates that this can happen both in church buildings and in
home Bible study groups, or what Adventists have called “Branch Sabbath Schools” and verse
47 demonstrates how this is essential to a growing church.
The Sabbath School is a lay ministry. It is run, staffed and funded by church members, not
the clergy. God calls every member of the church into ministry, and the Sabbath School is the
place of preparation, support and empowerment for ministry. It is, therefore, essential to have lay
involvement and leadership in its operation.
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