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4 Key Factors For Choosing Youth Ministry Curriculum

Summer is here! Kids enjoy the bliss of sleeping in late, going to the pool, family vacations, and all the fun things. Just around the corner, the new school year starts, and you should already be thinking about the curriculum for the next school year. Here are 4 key factors to consider as you evaluate youth ministry curriculum.

The vision of your ministry should determine your curriculum, not the other way around.

The curriculum shouldn’t determine the direction of your ministry. If you are the bus driver the vision is the destination and the curriculum is your GPS. In my opinion, your student ministry vision should reflect the vision of the church.

Your curriculum should challenge students from the Word and take students to the Word.

What we teach and the direction of our vision should come directly from the Bible. As you look at the curriculum, will students be challenged by Scripture? The challenge is good. Your curriculum should also drive them to the Word in their daily lives.

Cohesiveness between your large group message and small group lesson is essential to the vision.

Sometimes, we throw too many concepts at our students for them to digest in one week. What if we focused on that one thing we wanted them to learn, take home, and apply in their lives? It’s easier to drink from a cup than a geyser. Small groups tied to the message from a large group give students time to process, unpack, and apply what they have learned.

Your time is valuable. How will you invest it?

I have written my curriculum in the past, which took up the bulk of my work week. However, we only have so much time to invest in student ministry each week. Would you rather use that time to build relationships with your students? How about having that extra time to find and invest in volunteers?

Conclusion

God has blessed us with some great publishers of student ministry curriculum. Publishing houses, Mega Church downloads, or a buddy down the road sharing his curriculum with you—whatever curriculum you choose, make sure it fits your church’s vision and doctrine. Remember that no matter where you get your curriculum, it will need to be tweaked to suit your ministry.

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  • Bible-based Teaching with Graphics and Videos
  • Fun and Intentional Programming that covers your whole year
  • Volunteer Resources to help you build a Relational Volunteer Team
  • Tools that equip parents as the primary faith influencers at home
  • Leadership Training to prepare your students to live on mission
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Andy Lawrenson

Andy Lawrenson is the Campus Pastor for Liberty Christian Academy in Lynchburg, Va. After thirty years of serving in the local church, Andy answered the call to pastor students in the school setting. Andy and his wife, Misha, are in their third decade of marriage. They have three teenage kids at home. In his free time, Andy enjoys smoking meat and sitting on his lanai.

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