St. Mark's Sunday School Year

A Growing in Christ Sunday School classroom is bursting with energy, excitement, and true Bible learning.

Children hear the Good News of Christ’s death and resurrection in every lesson and are exposed to a substantial scope of Bible stories from early on!

1. To teach the Scriptures as they reveal God's plan of salvation
2. To link Sunday School to the worship life of the church
3. To unite families in the study of God's Word

A top priority is to present God's plan of salvation as it was revealed in the lives of God's people throughout the Scriptures using as many Bible stories as possible. Equally important is the desire to match the lessons to the Gospel readings in the three year lectionary.

In the fall quarter of each year, students will study chronological sections of the Old Testament. By the end of the fall quarter in the fourth year of Growing in Christ the students will have studied all the major stories and texts of the Old Testament.

In the Winter and Spring Quarters, the church enters the festival time of the church year and so the Sunday School lessons follow the appointed Gospel readings beginning in the Advent Season and following through Easter Sunday each year.

These texts offer a nearly chronological presentation of the Gospels, really teaching about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. The lessons after Easter each year will cover chronological sections of the book of Acts, covering all of it by the end of the third year of Growing in Christ.

As children grow up in the Growing in Christ Sunday School they will come to recognize the Bible stories and at each age learn discover the depth and riches of God's Word in each story.