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Bay Area Family Church Sunday School Curriculum Outline

Revised October 2003

Preschool- For preschool curriculum, we use "Teaching your children joy" by Linda and Richard Eyre as a foundation. Teachers use the story and activities in the chapters, one a week, to create lessons for September through November.  After that, we use Bible stories from "First Favorite-Bible Lessons for Preschoolers" by Beth Rowland Wolf and Bonnie Temple (Group Publishing.)

Kindergarten, 1st & 2nd Grades-  We are focusing on a foundation in Bible stories for these grades using such curriculum as "Explore Bible People" (A 52 weeks Bible Journey for ages 4-6), "Follow the Bible" (same) (both from Standard Publishing), stories from "The Children's Illustrated Bible" which gives a lot of historical background as well (DK Publishing) and other Christian curriculum. We use movies of Bible stories that are 20-30 minutes long occasionally (from Family Entertainment Network and Hanna and Barbera.) Of course, teachers bring in DP perspectives and use the Hoon Dok Study Books for Children for church holidays. We decided to focus on the Bible in the younger years since we really want our children to have a foundation in the Bible stories, not just the traditional ones told in connection with DP (parallels of history, etc.) Our church community has Friday night DP classes and we do not want the students to have DP year after year without having the framework within which to understand it. Some of our eldes 2nd generation feel that they know everything about DP because they have heard so many lessons and lectures yet they haven't really understood how to internalize them. For these reasons, we adapted the national curriculum for preschool-2nd grades.

3rd Grade- Third grade uses the book "Light of Glory" and we have developed some activities/worksheets for each lesson. We have included a bit of Korean culture, Korean words, Korean folktales, etc.

4th Grade- During the year, we go through Principle from "Who is God?", "Creation", Spiritual Growth", "The Fall", "Life of Jesus", "Restoration" (including a section on central women-Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel & Leah, Queen Esther, Ruth and Naomi, Elizabeth & Mary, True Mother and Dae Mo Nim.) We are working on this and hope to have something available soon. We include movies such as "The Prince of Egypt" and "Joseph, King of Dreams," each split over two Sundays.

5th grade- The students focus more on the life of Jesus. We use as resources "Principle Study Book" by the Sabos, "The life and mission of Jesus Christ" (taken from Father's words,) "Grow through the Bible" (Standard Publishing), and "The Big Book of Bible Skits" (Gospel Light). We have adapted the national curriculum somewhat but start with Christology, the Purpose of the Messiah, the life of Jesus and John the Baptist, Jesus'teachings through parables, Jesus'death, the early disciples, the grouth of Christianity, Paul's conversion and ministry, the 2nd coming and what are blessed families. At the end of the year, we review some of the Old Testament stories.

6th Grade- Using the "True Family Values" book and lectures developed by Rev. Kevin Thompson, the 6th graders explore the Family Pledge and their own faith. The balance of the year we use stories of lives of the Saints taken from "the Giant at the Ford and Other Legends of the Saints" by Ursula Synge, Father's life using Michael Breen's book "Sun Myung Moon - the early years - 1920-53" as a resource and stories printed from "True Parents' history for Children" that include the development of the church in Korea, missionaries to the west, and the growth of the church in America.