Articles for tag: Children’s Curriculum

July 19, 2018

Church & Ministry Youth & Children's Ministry

How Orange Is Changing the Face of Children’s Ministry and Curriculum

By Amy Fenton When you work for a company whose name is a color, you get questions (and occasionally weird looks). Sometimes people think I work for the fitness place with a similar name . . . nope. Sometimes people think my boss, Reggie Joiner, likes that color. He does like it, but that is not why we are called Orange. For us, Orange is the company name because it reflects our strategy. We recently celebrated our 11th year of the Orange Conference, and as I stood in the back of the room on our last day, I thought about

February 17, 2014

Christian Standard

Church & Ministry Teaching

HIS Story

By Matt Myers Chandler Christian Church set out to help people know Jesus like never before. Going through The Story in 2011 was a life-changing experience for our church. People who had always struggled to read anything, much less the Bible, were not only reading Scripture but sharing it with people they knew. Simply putting God”s Word into story format enabled people to overcome that “Bible intimidation factor.” Not only that, it also allowed them to finally see for themselves how the whole Bible points toward Jesus. Since The Story had such a great result, our lead pastor, Roger Storms,

December 7, 2012

Christian Standard

Church & Ministry Teaching

Church”s Leaders Recast Gospels into 14 Chapters

By Jennifer Johnson After working through The Story, a popular new curriculum that organizes Scripture into 31 chapters to tell the story of the Bible, Chandler (AZ) Christian Church was ready for more. “We wanted to study Jesus for an extended amount of time,” says pastor of changing ministries Matt Myers. “It makes new disciples out of seekers and better disciples out of believers.” Instead of buying another ready-made resource, Myers, senior pastor Roger Storms, and executive pastor Don Anderson used the research of Robert Thomas and Stanley Gundry (A Harmony of the Gospels), as well as The Chronological Life

February 17, 2011

Christian Standard

Church & Ministry Youth & Children's Ministry

“˜Inside Out & Upside Down” VBS Ranked No. 1

Standard Publishing”s 2011 Vacation Bible School curriculum, “Inside Out & Upside Down on Main Street,” was ranked this year’s No. 1 VBS by About the Children’s Department, a popular blog with authoritative reviews of children”s curriculum based on standardized criteria. “Standard Publishing is known for providing quality VBS resources that teachÂ God’s Word in every station and activity; this year they have done aÂ tremendous job!” said the blog”s editor, Lynda Freeman. Standard Publishing is the original publisher of Vacation Bible School andÂ has served Christian churches in America for 145 years. Every summer, more than 1.3 million kids and volunteers are touched