Curriculum and Teaching

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The Gospel Story lesson is a fun and creative way to present the Gospel to your preteen students, brought to you by SuperStart.

It comes with a video that is just over six minutes long and illustrates the Gospel in a way that is easy for your preteen students to understand. Along with the video are a NEW small group activity and discussion that will drive your fourth-sixth graders into a deeper knowledge about the Gospel story. This lesson can be used in your Sunday School class, for your weekend programming, or for any other way you can imagine it! 

Contact is a five-week curriculum on prayer that puts a modern twist on helping students learn how to pray. Using a centuries-old model called Lectio Divina, students will have the opportunity to read through scripture, meditate on scripture, pray through scripture and, finally, contemplate the scripture by physically doing a small activity that ties into the topic. 

Provided in this curriculum are five lessons on prayer for your junior high or high school student. Each lesson contains two-three different activities and could be practiced in your weekly programming, small groups, or in different stations during a night of prayer. Also, included is a series of short “bumper” videos called “Howie Pray.” Each one gives a different tip on prayer. This is all brought to you by Believe.

I Am is a four-week curriculum that will help you lead your students through four phases of understanding identity and remind them “I am who God says I am.” This is best used for junior high school weekly programming or small groups, and could also be used in a girls high school small group setting.

 I Am curriculum, brought to you by Believe, comes with four lessons over understanding identity and “The Hendersons” video.

With is a four-week curriculum (with bonus fifth-week option) that was made by Believe to help your students understand that they were created to be in relationship with God and with others. 

With includes four lessons, three "Institute For Loneliness" videos, a worksheet, and other graphics to make it your own. The optional fifth week is a celebration lesson to cap off this series. This lesson includes game graphics and a short video called Katie Edwards video. This could be used in your weekly programming or in small groups with your junior high or high school students.

This four-week curriculum will help your students understand what it meant for David to be a "man after God's own heart" and how God is asking them to be young men and women who also chase after the things that God wants. 

After includes four lessons with four videos on David, a bumper video, and extra slide graphics to customize as needed. This curriculum is best used for junior high students in weekly programming, or a small group setting. This resource is brought to you by Believe.

This four-week curriculum was created by Believe to help students know that they are valuable, loved, accepted, forgiven, and created with a purpose to serve in God’s Kingdom. 

Switch includes four lessons and the Switch film. Use this with your junior high students in your weekly programming or in a small group setting.

This hands-on resource is designed to walk your group through the Sermon on the Mount while experiencing it in your own community. You have the option to move through 3 different locations, spending focused time in prayer, and discussing 7 readings from the Sermon on the Mount.

Sermon in the City includes 7 focused times of reading and prayer through the Sermon on the Mount and is written as a script for easy accessibility. This could be used in your weekly programming as you lead your junior or high school students through the readings, but best in a small group setting used by multiple youth leaders!

Mysterious Truth is a three-part small group discussion for preteens that includes scripture, teaching points, and follow-up questions all centered around unpacking the truths of the Gospel.

Mysterious Truth, brought to by SuperStart, includes three preteen-focused lessons. Each of them with discussion questions and teaching points to help your students dive into the truths of the Gospel, own God’s truths, and share that truth with the world around them. Originally designed to help pastors navigate a discussion through Zoom, these lessons can also be used in small groups in your weekly programming.

Open is a four-week curriculum (with bonus fifth-week option) that was created by Believe to help students understand what it means to be generous, and how generosity should be a natural response to God’s gifts in our lives.

It includes four lessons with graphics, a countdown bumper video, and customizable slides to make it your own. The optional fifth week is a bonus celebration! This lesson includes the Open film, game graphics, and lesson graphics. Open curriculum could be used in your weekly programming or in small groups with your junior high or high school students.

Decoding Love is a three-part small group discussion for preteens that includes scripture, teaching points, and follow-up questions all centered around unpacking the love that Jesus has called us all to walk in.

Decoding Love, brought to you by SuperStart, includes three preteen-specific lessons focused on loving one another and three sets of follow-up questions for each lesson. Originally designed to help pastors navigate a discussion through Zoom, these lessons can also be used in small groups in your weekly programming.

Game Changer is a three-part small group series that teaches us to remember God’s promises and to find hope. This series is designed for preteen students.

Game Changer includes games, teaching videos, and discussion questions.

In this four-part series, Jon Kehrer leads students through the life of Elijah. This ancient prophet has more to say about life in the 21st century than a lot of students might think!

In this five-part small group series about the life of Peter, as a disciple and follower of Jesus, we are going to look through the scriptures and ask ourselves where we fit in to all of this. We will have the opportunity to look at what it means to follow Jesus, see Jesus, trust Jesus, fail, and repeat the cycle. As we dive into the life of Peter, we will certainly shed light on to our life and walk with Jesus.

In this five-part series, we will have an opportunity to interact with the words from the book of 1 John. We will walk through the scripture themes such as the relationship between light and darkness, to believe and to deny, obedience and rebellion, and even the stark difference between love and fear. Take some time to hear the words of a fantasy world communicate deep Biblical truths. 

In this five-part series, Jackie Hill Perry uses spoken word to walk through the life and legacy of Jospeh. She reminds us that Christians can still look back to Joseph as an example of what it looks like to live with integrity regardless of life's circumstances.

"God With Us" is a three-part small group series with video teaching from Michael DeFazio. The teaching will unpack God's holiness and how the holiness of God changes us, our relationships, and our allegiance. When we become "set apart" by God, we become a part of His Kingdom: an unstoppable force that defeated death and abolished fear.