Developing a Comprehensive Missions Education Curriculum for Children

by Mark von Ehrenkrook
June 1st, 1998

This project will seek to put students into a situation where they can hear the call of God on their lives and respond appropriately. The project seeks to develop a systematic, comprehensive and viable solution to the need for a children’s mission curriculum. At the same time this curriculum must be workable and sensible. Plans for training personnel and creative activities must also be considered. A local church must be able to use and adapt the material to reflect their own size and flavor, denominational preferences and mission theology.

Another major consideration for this curriculum is the teaching time available. Most churches already purchase Sunday school curriculum, weekday club curriculum and Vacation Bible School curriculum. Some of these materials and programs offer a missions lesson but it is not necessarily adaptable to the church supported missions programs. This curriculum project will seek to work within the existing structure of the Sunday school program. It is anticipated that a missions emphasis Sunday will be established each month in the respective churches. This curriculum will limit itself to five to ten minutes in each classroom one time every month.