Glendale Baptist places high value on Christian education in the church. Our educational offerings reflect the diversity in the membership.

Sunday School meets each Sunday from 9:30 to 10:20 a.m.

Sunday morning classes, provided for all age groups, use a variety of approaches and curriculum materials including regular Sunday School materials from Cokesbury, curriculum for Workshop Rotation Model (WoRM) for elementary school age children, as well as stand-alone books and member-designed eclectic approaches for adult classes.

Kindergarten through Sixth Grade

This year, Glendale continues the Workshop Rotation Model, or WoRM for short. Here’s a brief description of this model of doing Sunday School. Teach major Bible stories and concepts through kid-friendly multimedia workshops: an Art workshop, Drama, Music, Games, Puppets, Storytelling, Computers, and any other educational media you can get your hands on. Teach the same Bible story in all of the workshops for four or five weeks rotating the kids to a different workshop each week. The same teacher is in each workshop for all three or four weeks -teaching the same lesson week after week (with some age appropriate adjustments) to each new class coming in.


Youth

Our Youth Sunday School class is taught by Lyndsey Godwin using the Seasons of the Spirit curriculum published weekly online by Logos Productions, Inc. She also includes current events in the lessons.

Adults - Summer 2010

The Men’s (aka “Rooster”) Class is studying A New Kind of Christianity by Brian McLaren. This class meets on the lower floor, across from fellowship hall.

The Twenty-Something class, which focuses on faith development, is reading Walking with God In a Fragile World. This collection of essays written expressly for this book is by renowned spiritual writers and theologians who wrestle with the problems of the human condition in the world today and what a walk with God might reveal about them. No homework, all reading, as well as discussion, occurs during class. Jimmy Davis and Annette Sisson are the teachers. This class meets on the Upper level.

THE Adult Class is currently discussing Christianity and criminal justice. Andy Watts is the new teacher. This class meets on the upper level in the room at the front of the church.

The Special Studies Class is studying “The Development and Function of the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Early Church” taught by Mark Caldwell. This class meets in the conference room on the main floor.

Biblestudy@Glendale.etc focuses primarily on Biblical and extra-Biblical sources for study. They are currently studying I and II Kings and are taught by Richard Sapp. This class meets on the lower level, across from fellowship hall.