Unifying Lessons and Linking Church and Home

As a Christian Education director, superintendent, or pastor, you strive to achieve excellence in your Sunday school ministry. You recruit and train gifted, dedicated teachers. You select curriculum that helps students become “doers of the word, and not hearers only” (Jas. 1:22). Your goal is to help every student from preschool to adult “grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” (2 Pet. 3:18).

Echoes has chosen this unique course in our curriculum: We have selected age-appropriate Scriptures for each age level and have built appropriate lessons from those Scriptures for growth at all age levels. Then we unified these diverse lessons together with a quarterly Church and Home Theme. So, each class is age-appropriate, and all the classes revolve around the same Bible precept. This enables you, the Sunday school leader, to guide all your classes toward a common goal—age-appropriate, biblical discipleship.

This publication—the Echoes Sunday School Superintendent’s Handbook—helps you do your best to accomplish your ministry goals. Some features of this Handbook:

• an easy-to-follow Church and Home theme
• a suggested order of service
• tips for lesson reviews
• teacher training materials
• tips for coordinating sermons with Sunday school lessons

With this Handbook you and your teachers will be able to better follow God’s calling in your Christian education ministry!
 

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Tear-out summaries/abbreviated lessons from the student book (Comprehensive Bible Study) to be given to newcomers and visitors, so they can participate fully in the class. Great for general outreach purposes beyond the class. Need extras on hand for class or church.

Features:

• Lesson content and questions provided for newcomers/class visitors or for stand-alone Bible study
• Includes outreach ideas for the class and church
• Space for the church’s contact information
• KJV Scripture passages

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The personal-sized Quiet Hour booklet is designed to provide adults with focus and direction for daily reflection. Each day’s reading includes the recommended Scripture passage, explores how a fellow believer has applied its theme to their life, and ends with prayer or devotional comment to start a conversation with the Lord. Thirteen weeks of daily Scripture readings and devotionals coincide with lessons in the student book and coordinate with its Daily Bible Readings. Need one per student and extras for church.

Features:

• Daily Bible readings and devotions coincide with weekly lessons
• Follows the ISSL plan of daily readings

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This weekly take-home paper for adults is filled with inspiring articles about Christians-both famous and unfamiliar-whose insights demonstrate following Christ. Featuring reports on unique ministries, world missions, spiritual trends, and issues that affect families. Includes stories that are written by or about well-known authors on key faith concepts, social concerns, prayer, and much more. Well-suited as a church bulletin insert or for outreach within the community. Need one per student and extras for church.

Features:

• Thirteen articles about Christians whose insights demonstrate following Christ
• Nested weekly papers
• Flexible for use by visitors, shut-ins, and prisoners or as an outreach tool

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The student guide for adults offers biblical commentary for each lesson while encouraging life application. Scripture references are printed with both KJV and NIV translations for comparison and student preference. Need one per student.

Features:

• Commentary explains the Scripture passage and provided questions help gauge student comprehension of the passage
• Includes both NIV and KJV translations
• Activities help students explore the lesson focus and Bible principle
• Encourages real-life applications
• Daily Bible Readings prepare students for next week’s lesson

This is a Large Print version of Echoes Adult Student Book.
 

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The student guide for adults offers biblical commentary for each lesson while encouraging life application. Scripture references are printed with both KJV and NIV translations for comparison and student preference. Need one per student.

Features:

• Commentary explains the Scripture passage and provided questions help gauge student comprehension of the passage
• Includes both NIV and KJV translations
• Activities help students explore the lesson focus and Bible principle
• Encourages real-life applications
• Daily Bible Readings prepare students for next week’s lesson

There is also a Large Print version available for purchase.
 

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Enhances each Bible lesson with posters that explain Bible backgrounds and outline Bible history with charts, maps, and timelines. Other posters provide thought-provoking quotes and detailed photos that illustrate the Bible lesson. Each quarter has reproducible handouts full of discussion starters, activities, and modern-day stories that bring timeless Bible truths right into students’ lives. Need one per class.

Features:

• Large, full-color posters with maps, photos, and other Bible background material
• Smaller inspirational posters suitable for framing, often illustrating Bible verses
• Reproducible handouts and worksheets to start class discussion
• Scriptures coordinate with the David C Cook Commentary

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A packet containing an Adult Teacher’s Commentary and teaching aids, including full-color Bible background posters, worksheets, and other discussion starters. Need one per class.

Features:

• Combines an Adult Teacher’s Commentary and Creative Teaching Aids at one low price

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Step-by-step instructions to help teachers prepare and lead each lesson. Begins with devotional preparation for the teacher and provides Bible background material, suggested responses to study questions, and a variety of activities and stories relating Bible truths to adult life. Also points teachers to additional information in the David C Cook Bible Lesson Commentary. Reductions of the student book pages are included so teachers can easily see what students are reading and studying. Provides usage information for all Creative Teaching Aids. Need one per teacher.

Features:

• Teacher Devotionals and Understanding the Bible sections help the teacher prepare
• Easy four-step lesson plan:
  • Life Connection: gets adults engaged with the topic of the week
  • Bible Exploration: adults will read the week’s Bible passage, answer questions, and discuss
  • Bible Interaction: teacher has three choices for activities that will help adults explore the Bible lesson in-class
  • Life Application: adults will take ownership of putting into practice that week’s Bible principle
• A two-page spread called Highlights in Black History focuses on an African-American Christian who not only advanced African-Americans in some significant way but also showed personal Christian values to others
• Lessons follow the time-honored Uniform Series (ISSL)
• Scriptures coordinate with the David C Cook Bible Lesson Commentary

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