Sunday School Ministry

Sunday School Ministry

Introduction


One of the specific objectives of CPR is to promote human dignity. For the early education we have to teach the children how they should live and they will remember it all their lives as it is said in Proverbs 22 : 6. Sunday School Ministry is the pillar of churches. Neglecting it is like building a house without foundation.

Different protestant churches put their emphasis on youth and adults teachings. This is unfair because most of Rwandan churches are full of children which need reliable evangelization as children not using adult or youth methods.

Sunday Schools’ Ministry in Protestant churches in Rwanda is not well organized. This is the concern of churches that are members of CPR. Children go to churches with adults, or would be left to child carers just to avoid annoyance during the worship service.

Each protestant church may have an average of 150 registered children in local congregation. Sunday School children. There is a need to worry about this situation that weakens protestant churches in Rwanda.

Sunday School Ministry


1Main Goal
  • Helping children to grow in a Christian viable environment.
  • Offering appropriate Christian education to child development
2The Objective

The Objective of Sunday School Ministry is :

  • Helping children to grow in a Christian viable environment.
  • Offering appropriate Christian education to child development
3Beneficiaries
  • Sunday schools children
  • Pastors (training seminars on Sunday school Ministry )
  • Teachers (training seminars, etc)
  • Parents : to acquire and use Sunday school material
4Outcome
  • Training seminars Of 30 Pastors on Sunday school Ministry per year
  • Training for trainers of 120 Sunday School teachers per year
  • Training of 360 Sunday School teachers in 3 years
5Activities
  1. Production of didactic material :
    • Syllabuses for teachers
    • Illustrations et puppets
    • Games materials
  2. Trainings
    • Training of pastors in charge of Sunday school
    • Training for trainers who will train teachers
    • Empowering Sunday School teachers to improve Sunday School Ministry
  3. Elaboration of didactic material
    • Since 2010 CPR produced four booklets “Uruhongore”2010, 2011, 2012,2013 for facilitating Sunday School Teachers service. In 2014 CPR has elaborated a booklet “uruhongore” for teachers to help young children between 3-5 years .
6Achievement

We have

  • trained 136 Pastors responsible of Sunday School in their parishes
  • trained 133 Sunday Schools Teachers
7Approaches

CPR has trained pastors in different provinces ; North, East, and South province. Those trainings were organized by churches. CPR organizes seminars for teachers training at Kigali city. Every Sunday morning at 7h A.M Sunday school radio broadcasting in Kinyarwanda.

8Constraints / difficulties

In our churches there are not enough trained teachers for Sunday school. Although children are not having well conceived program, they are as many as adults and in others churches, they are more than adults. Each protestant church may have an average of 150 registered children in local congregation. There is a need to have more trained teachers. They must have sufficient materials to help those children. Church members of CPR have more than 1081 parishes and each parish has at least one Sunday School. More training for teachers and pastors of Sunday school are needed.

9Experiences

The presence and the use of Sunday Schools materials in some parishes and the presence of few trained Sunday Schools teachers in different parishes are remarkable. Sunday school classes are organized. But they need to learn by group of age 3-5years ; 6-9years ; 10-13years. Church members understand the necessity of an organized Sunday School.