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JEHOSHEBA, WE NEED YOUR COURAGE • SUNDAY SCHOOL IS VITAL
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contents
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14
columns
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from the editor
Gary L. Randol; Guest Editorial: Dale Harrah
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director’s chair
Gary D. Erickson; Guest Writer: Kenneth F. Haney
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around the world in 60
seconds
Dorsey Burk
10 2006 soc giving report
12 teacher to teacher
Joni Owens; Guest Writer: Anthony Mangun
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tips for teachers
Billie J. Lambert
16 helping the hurting
David Reynolds
19 servant to servant
Debra Hathaway; Guest Writer: Paul D. Mooney
20 teacher’s devotion
Gary D. Erickson; Guest Writer: Elise McKenzie
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from the
editor
Gary L. Randol
Guest Editorial: Dale Harrah
The
of
Importance Oneness
Sunday School Literature
to
The Apostolic Movement
And these words . . .
thou shalt teach
them diligently unto
thy children.
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Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one
Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy might. And these words, which I
command thee this day, shall be in thine
heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently
unto thy children (Deuteronomy 6:4-7).
or over two hundred years in America, Sunday school
has been one of the cornerstones in church evangelism
and has been one of the greatest tools in teaching
God’s Word. Paraphrasing Mark Twain, “The rumors of Sunday
school’s death are greatly exaggerated!” Every weekend more
than 300,000 churches in America offer some type of systematic religious instruction in a classroom setting and those
programs are attended by nearly 45 million adults and more
than 22 million youth and children.1
In a culture saturated with change, one of the most stable
aspects in the field of religious training has been Sunday
school. According to a recent Barna survey, church reliance
upon Sunday school has remained stable: nineteen out of
every twenty Protestant churches (95%) offer “a Sunday
school in which people receive some form of planned or systematic Bible instruction in a class setting.”1 While churches
are divided along denominational and theological lines,
Barna’s research indicates that Sunday school remains one of
the most widely used ministry programs and is one of the
church’s highest priorities.
Pastors realize that ministry to children must be one of, if not
the most important emphases of their church. Research indicates that most faithful church members today were saved
before the age of fifteen. With this in mind, the future of the
church is highly dependent upon reaching children today.
Sunday school is one of the greatest tools for soulwinning and
needs to be looked at as an outreach strategy. Children are
spiritual sponges whose most impressionable years are too
important to pass up, and doctrinally correct Sunday school
materials are essential for their biblical education.
It has consistently been the goal of the Pentecostal
Publishing House and Word Aflame Publications to provide
Sunday school literature that meets the needs of the growing
United Pentecostal Church. Word Aflame Sunday school literature is doctrinally correct, spiritually perceptive, inspirational,
cosmetically attractive, educationally sound, relevant, and visually reflects Apostolic convictions.
In 1946, the UPCI began publishing Sunday school quarterlies based upon the International Outlines. Feeling that the
outlines tended to shy away from biblical miracles, the UPCI
began using outlines from the National Sunday School
Association. Through the years the UPCI produced its own
manuals but purchased activity and visual aids from other publishers. This was unsatisfactory because the items contained
subject matter considered doctrinally unsound or did not
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reflect the UPCI’s holiness standards. In 1968, General
Superintendent Stanley W. Chambers appointed a committee
to remedy this situation and to determine the needs of the fellowship. As an outgrowth of that committee’s work the
organization decided to formulate its own curriculum for all
ages, including activity and visual aid materials.2 The first Word
Aflame Publications (WAP) Sunday school literature was published in 1969 and provided churches with truly Apostolic
educational materials.
Often churches buy non-Apostolic Sunday school curriculum at local bookstores in an effort to save money. Sunday
school materials from WAP are a great value and are affordably and competitively priced. A recent price comparison
showed that WAP prices are lower across the board for
teacher manuals and student materials. On average, WAP
teacher manuals are approximately 33 percent lower and student materials are 25 percent lower than other publishers.
While their motives may be good, by using materials published by non-Apostolic companies, Sunday school teachers
may unknowingly be allowing another worldview to creep into
our churches. There are more erroneous teachings than just
the trinitarian doctrine presented in these materials; there is
eternal security, other concepts of prayer and worship, and
imagery that does not reflect or depict Apostolic convictions. It
takes more work to convert a fun program into a doctrinally
sound program than to use a doctrinally sound program and
have fun teaching it!
The need for clear and precise doctrinal teachings has
never been greater than now. Our ministers and teachers
boldly face the challenge to defend the truth through teaching
and to establish the mind-set that to evangelize our world we
must reach out to children and teach them the Word of God.
Word Aflame is the only Oneness Apostolic Sunday school
curriculum available and serves the United Pentecostal
Church, Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Pentecostal
Assemblies of the World, Bibleway, as well as many smaller
Oneness organizations and independent churches.
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Dale Harrah serves as Executive Assistant
at the Pentecostal Publishing House and
has worked in the Christian publishing
industry for over ten years. He and his
wife, Vickie, and their sons make their
home in Saint Charles, Missouri. The
Harrahs are evangelists and travel weekends, specializing in youth and children’s
ministries.
Sunday School is Changing in Under-the-Radar But Significant Ways,
Barna Group, Ltd., Ventura, California. www.barna.org July 11, 2005.
2
United We Stand – Jubilee Edition, Clanton, Arthur L and Charles E.,
Word Aflame Press, Pentecostal Publishing House, Hazelwood, Missouri.
1995
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director’s
chair
Gary D. Erickson
Guest Writer: Kenneth F. Haney
Jehosheba,
We need Jehoshebas to walk
through and say, “Devil, you are not
going to assassinate the children!”
We Need Your
W
Courage
hen a professor left the university to
work in a boy’s school, people asked,
“Why would you want to step down
from the level of the university to work in a boy’s
school?”
He answered, “If you want to make an impression on brick, do you do that before it is baked
or after it is baked?”
We have an open door with children’s ministry
and need a radical return to the basics—working
with children. Children are pliable, sensitive, and
tender. During the last twenty years an unwelcome shift in focus derailed ministry to
children—where our greatest potential lies. If we
recapture the vision and return to square one,
we will rekindle revival fires.
We find a gripping children’s ministry story in II
Kings when Jehosheba determined in her heart to
preserve the royal seed. Athaliah, the vicious and
wicked mother of the late King Ahaziah, schemed,
plotted, and planned the massive assassination of
all of the king’s sons.
Into the bedchambers of the palace the
assassins flowed with their knives, ripping the
throats of the babes until the carnage spilled
upon the floors. In the midst of the terrorizing
cries of murdered children, a brave woman crept
in saying, “Someone must preserve the royal
seed! God has called me to do this.”
The proportion of godly, committed teachers
among us is not enough. Our mission is not
complete with teaching alone but must include
going out into the highways and byways and
bringing them in. Beginning at fifteen years old
and enduring through the years until now, my life
has included bus ministry. During my fifties I had
my own bus route to show my congregation that
it still works!
So many children come from troubled, disoriented homes. We have become a sophisticated
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church baptized with a spirit of pride and are hesitant to fill our
beautiful buildings with the “little rats” of this world for fear that
they might tarnish, scar, or stain it. God help us to love a lost
world so much that we are willing to go out and to fill the house
of God with souls no matter how lucrative the ministry may or
may not be.
Jesus went to Calvary and hung upon a cross for every one.
He loves all cultures—illiterate, educated, poor, wealthy, tall, and
short. Bus ministry is not an obsolete method of evangelism.
The parking lot may be full of buses and vans, but the services
are full of young parents who were once little kids on buses.
Ministry to children is one of the most gratifying and thrilling ministries available.
In February 1972 when I returned to Stockton, the church had
a couple of buses and we bought more. Revival began to break
out. Some of the traditionalists walked into the church to find
that someone already occupied their pew!
When we moved to West Lane, some of the saints came to
me and hinted, “You are not going to bring the bus children
in over here, are you?”
One night in prayer the thought came to me, that is what we
built this building for. A lot of the folks who are in this church
making commitments and pledges and working on this church
came in through bus ministry. So I bought eight more buses and
had them delivered on Sunday morning just as church let out.
The Athaliahs of this world seek to destroy children through
drugs, filth, corruption, pornography, and homes where parents
are absent. The church has the key to the destiny of children.
Society does not care for them, but it is our responsibility and
passion to snatch them from the knives of the assassins.
A young lady began reading her Bible at home and desired
the baptism of the Holy Ghost. A bus pastor knocked on her
door and God gloriously filled her with the Holy Ghost. It cost
her to serve God, but she became a great soulwinner mightily
used by God—a bus pastor.
She brought a set of fourteen-year-old twins to church and
God filled them with the Holy Ghost. At fifteen years old, they
excitedly came to me and asked, “Brother Haney, is there any
way that we could have a bus route?” One Sunday morning
about four months later, their bus came around the corner. I
could see a head in every window. The twins jumped off with big
smiles followed by forty-two Southeast Asians—adults and children who could not speak English.
They asked, “What shall we do with them?” The next Sunday
when their bus arrived, the same forty-two people got off. As we
stood there, two couples came running with tears in their eyes
and asked, “Brother Haney, what are you going to do with these
people?”
I asked, “What can you do? Can you speak their language?”
They answered, “No. But we can get them to Jesus. We will
use flannelgraph. We will do all that we can, but we will get them
to Jesus!”
Soon they had filled two buses—then three—with Asians. They
received the Holy Ghost and were baptized. From that day until
this, between 3,800 and 4,000 of those Southeast Asians have
been baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost. They have started
many other churches across this nation—all because two bus
kids loved souls and became involved.
We need Jehoshebas to walk through and say, “Devil, you
are not going to assassinate the children!” Churches built
around children’s ministries could run a thousand, five thousand, or ten thousand—turning our world upside down.
Jesus admonished us to give a cup of water, feed the hungry,
clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, and minister to the sick.
We are saved by preaching but since when is it all about us? It
is about reaching lost souls, changing idealisms, methods, and
ways. Look at your city and say, “This city and these kids belong
to me. They may live in the ghettos but I love them and I will
reach them.”
We are caught up with so much—new homes, automobiles,
fine threads, stocks—if they ever take the place of passion for
evangelism, they are not pleasing to God.
An old fisherman loved to fish. One day he took his little
golden-haired, four-year-old daughter and went out to the sandbar in the middle of the ocean. As she played with her sand
bucket and he fished, he said, “Honey, I am going to move out
a little further.”
After some exciting fishing, suddenly he looked over to where
the sandbar had been, but the tide had come in and the sandbar had disappeared. He screamed and cried for his beautiful
little golden-haired girl but to no avail. Later he could be heard
screaming her name and muttering almost incoherently, “If I had
only stayed close enough so that I could have heard her voice,
but I was too preoccupied.”
Are we too preoccupied to hear the voices of drowning children, suffocating by neglect and the filth of this world? We may
have the most beautiful edifices with towering steeples and
stain-glassed windows, but we must have apostolic power and
compassion.
Mary Bird taught the first grade in our Christian school for
twenty-five years. She prayed all of the kids in her classes
through to the Holy Ghost every year—my kids, the saints’ kids,
and the sinners’ kids. Children are the most precious commodity that God has given us. We can do great and startling
things if we have a rebirth of children’s ministry.
A car accident trapped a young girl inside her burning vehicle. Truckers stopped and worked unsuccessfully to pry the
door open while the girl screamed, “Someone save me!” Out of
that horrible night came walking a man with purpose, and with
his bare hands and dynamic strength grabbed the door, prying
the metal apart until he tore the door off. In the process of rescuing the girl just before the car exploded, he ripped the flesh
off his own hands. Bystanders asked him, “How did you do it?”
He answered, “Years ago my little girl burned to death in an
automobile. I determined then, ‘Never as long as I live will it ever
happen again.’”
We have power and authority to literally change this world.
Children need champions. Thousands of them would come if we
had more workers. There are unlimited opportunities.
Jehosheba, we need your courage.
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Kenneth F. Haney is the general superintendent of the United Pentecostal Church
International.
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around the world
in 60 seconds
Dorsey Burk
ISRAEL
Our AIMer in Israel, Roy Fisher, reports: “We were privileged
to have AIMers Nate and Ingunn Turner with us from Lithuania
for our Russian-speaking congregation’s anniversary service in
Haifa. We had a wonderful time of fellowship and worship
together as God’s Spirit moved through the anointed ministry
of Brother Turner. I was encouraged as Brother Alexander
related several new doors that God is opening, allowing him to
share the Oneness message with other Russian immigrants.
We are believing God to continue the work that He has begun
among the Russian-speaking people of northern Israel.”
—Robert and Beth McFarland
RUSSIA
Laughing, games, and camaraderie abounded during a recent
children’s ministry seminar in St. Petersburg. Teachers gathered from St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Minsk and discovered
secrets of how to be successful teachers. The children’s ministry has been a very important part of the growing church
here in St. Petersburg. As many as twenty children attend
Sunday school, and nearly all of them have already received
the Holy Ghost. What is exciting is that most of them received
the Holy Ghost in the Sunday school classroom. Teachers
have truly learned how to minister to children.
—Tim and Jane Olson
COSTA RICA
At the invitation of friends, a young couple came to the church
I pastor. The young lady was blind in one eye. After the service, the lady who had brought them requested prayer for her.
People were leaving—very few were even aware of the prayer.
However, God healed her.
Across town, a pastor prayed for a six-year-old boy with
leukemia. God touched him, and he was able to start school
with his class in February.
—David and Yonda Schwarz
DEPUTATION
We have enjoyed meeting many new people while on deputation and have had some wonderful services. Just recently, in a
service in Colorado, four people received the Holy Ghost and
many others were refilled. We also had two deaf men praying
for a young lady who was also hearing-impaired. She worshiped with much joy and nearly received the Holy Ghost.
Our home mission work in Australia has been taken care of by
AIMers Jessie and Dayna McMahon, a blessing to our church.
While yet being excited by a great deputation so far, we are
still anxious to get back to Australia.
—Chester and Carole Terry
DEPUTATION
We have had ninety people receive the Holy Ghost and nineteen baptized in the name of Jesus since January in our
missionary services!
—Antonio and Jessica Marquez, Mexico.
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VENEZUELA
During Easter week, most districts have camp meeting. We
attended two of them in this area. In one district, over 6,500
people attended, 90 were baptized, and over 550 received
the Holy Spirit.
In the neighboring district, over 8,000 people attended, 122
were baptized, and many received the Holy Ghost. One lady
had been paralyzed and in a wheelchair for some time. On
Saturday morning, she was baptized. When she came out of the
water, she walked out and has not returned to her wheelchair!
—Lonnie and Gail Burton
TRINIDAD-TOBAGO
A very well respected Muslim and his family were recently baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost in Trinidad. A man who was
bedridden and could not walk was healed in Tunapuna,
Trinidad. Tobago also continues to see people being baptized
in Jesus’ name.
A prominent pastor in Cuba of another denomination is asking us to come to minister at his church. Pray for revelation for
Brother Saul.
—Gary and Kristi Landaw, Trinidad-Tobago/
Spanish Caribbean
A pastor prayed for a sixyear-old boy with leukemia.
God touched him, and he
was able to start school with
his class in February.
Dorsey Burk, executive assistant in Foreign Missions
Division and Secretary of Veterans of Foreign Missions, is a
graduate of Conqueror’s Bible College, Portland, Oregon.
He served as missionary in Jamaica and Germany before
coming to WEC. Dorsey has authored several books.
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SOC 2006
Easter
Top Five Districts in Total
Offering:
1st Place District Offering – 2006
Louisiana District $120,000.00
Kevin V. Cox, Supt
Cecil Daniels, S.S. Director
2nd Place District Offering – 2006
Mississippi District
$106,000.00
James Carney, Supt.
Steve Cannon, S.S. Director
3rd Place District Offering – 2006
Illinois District $80,730.06
Billy Coltharp, Supt.
John Bailey, S. S. Director
4th Place District Offering – 2006
Arkansas District $66,000.00
B. J. Thomas, Supt.
Rick Lumpkins, S. S. Director
5th Place District Offering – 2006
North Carolina District $61,180.00
David Elms, Supt.
Kenneth Marshburn, S. S. Director
4th Place Per Church Offering – 2006
New York District $693.70
David Robinson, Supt.
Jonathan Spite, S.S. Director
5th Place Per Church Offering – 2006
North Carolina District $687.42
David Elms, Supt.
Kenneth Marshburn, S.S. Director
Churches Giving
$5,000.00 or more
1st Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
Faith Sanctuary – Toronto, ON
G. McKenzie, Pastor
$17,500.00
2nd Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
Pentecostals of Alexandria –
Alexandria, LA
G. & A. Mangun, Pastor
$14,100.00
Top Five Districts in Per
Church Giving
3rd Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
The Jesus Church of the Quad-Cities Silvis, IL
G. Randol, Pastor
$13,013.13
1st Place Per Church Offering – 2006
New Hampshire/Vermont District
$1,191.27 per church
David McAllister, Supt.
John Davis, S.S. Director
4th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
The Pentecostals of Pasadena–
Pasadena, TX
A. & R. Glass, Pastor
$11,079.23
2nd Place Per Church Offering –
2006
Quebec District $920.34
Carlton Coon, Sr., Supt.
Andrew Clarke, S.S. Director
5th Place S.O.C. Offering - 2006
Landmark UPC – Lexington, N.C.
K. Marshburn, Pastor
$10,467.00
3rd Place Per Church Offering – 2006
Ontario District $749.18
Alonzo Dummitt, Supt. Mark
Cheverie, S.S. Director
6th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
Oregon City UPC – Oregon City, OR
G. Gleason, Pastor
$10,102.38
7th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
UPC – Carrollton, KY
R. Knox, Pastor
$10,020.30
8th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
Woodlawn UPC – Columbia, MS
J. Carney, Pastor
$10,000.00
9th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
Greater Laurel UPC – Laurel, MS
D. Moore, Pastor
$9,012.00
10th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
The Pentecostals of Lumberton –
Lumberton, NC
R. Barnhill, Pastor
$7,698.00
11th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
UPC – Ocala, FL
C. Williams, Pastor
$7,000.00
12th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
The Sanctuary –Hazelwood, MO
T. Dugas & S. Graham, Pastor
$6,707.30
13th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
Peoples Tabernacle – Sulligent, AL
P. Blaylock, Pastor
$6,603.08
14th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
Greater Life Tabernacle – Columbia
Heights, MN
C. Tatman, Pastor
$6,163.06
15th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
Apostolic Pentecostal Church – St.
Louis, MO
S. Willeford, Pastor
$6,145.28
16th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
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Calvary UPC – Jayess, MS
L. R. Bowling, Pastor
$6,083.00
First UPC – Lufkin, TX
R. G. Davis, Pastor
$5,200.00
17th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
Rick & Dianne Lumpkins
Hot Springs, AR
$6,006.06
21st Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
First UPC – Malvern, AR
J. Peters, Pastor
$5,121.27
18th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
First UPC Revival Center – Batesville, MS
S. Cannon, Pastor
$5,600.00
22nd Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
UPC – Bourbon, IN
M. Cottrill, Pastor
$5,100.00
19th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
The Pentecostals of Bradenton - Bradenton, FL
D. Eason, Pastor
$5,300.00
20th Place S.O.C. Offering – 2006
Churches with Easter Attendance of 1,000 or more
3,300
2,693
2,218
2,120
1,943
1,580
1,556
1,502
1,247
1,208
1,100
1,123
1,013
G.A. & A. Mangun
Micheal Mitchell
Johnny Godair
Tom Foster
Billy E. Hale
Granville McKenzie
Rex D. Johnson
Jessie M. Cornwell
Gary Randol
Ronald E. Libby
Anthony & Frank Tamel
Chester M. Wright
Mark Foster
The Pentecostals of Alexandria
New Life Tabernacle UPC
United Pentecostal Church
Dallas First Church
Landmark Tabernacle
Faith Sanctuary
Christian Life Church
First Pentecostal Church
The Jesus Church of the Quad Cities
Christian Life Center
Parkway Apostolic Church
The Apostolic Church of Antioch
Pentecostals of the Twin Cities
Alexandria, Louisiana
Brooklyn, New York
Durham, North Carolina
Dallas, Texas
Denver, Colorado
Toronto, Ontario
Austin, Texas
Wichita, Kansas
Silvis, Illinois
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Oak Creek, Wisconsin
Arnold, Maryland
West Monroe, Louisiana
Note: The above is based on what was reported to the Sunday School Division by each district.
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teacher
to teacher
Joni G. Owens
Guest Writer: Anthony Mangun
Everybody
Ought to Go to
Sunday
School
ne of the songs learned early in the Beginners class at
a United Pentecostal Church is usually this one. Its
message, while taught to beginners, is a lesson for all
of us—from the youngest to the oldest. Everybody ought to go
to Sunday school! My friend, T. F. Tenney, has often said,
“Sometimes we must do what we ought to do rather than what
we want to do.” “Everybody ought to go to Sunday school . . .
the men and the women, the boys and the girls—everybody
ought to go to Sunday school.”
The scriptural references to teaching children are clear and
to the point:
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“And these words . . . shall be in thine heart . . . teach
them diligently unto thy children (Deuteronomy 6:6-7).
Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they
may hear, and that they may learn (Deuteronomy 31:12).
Gather me the people together . . . and that they may
teach their children (Deuteronomy 4:10).
And ye shall teach them your children” (Deuteronomy
11:19).
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The call to Sunday school reaches farther
and wider than just to children. Sunday school
is for everyone—from children to teens—
young adults to senior citizens.
“Everybody ought to go to Sunday school!”
The psalmist even said, “Come, ye children, hearken unto
me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD” (Psalm 34:11). In the
promises of God to David came this one: “If thy children will
keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them,
their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore”
(Psalm 132:12).
The call to Sunday school reaches farther and wider than
just to children. Sunday school is for everyone—from children
to teens—young adults to senior citizens. “Everybody ought to
go to Sunday school!” George Barna recently conducted a
study in which he reported that 95 percent of Protestant
churches in America offer “a Sunday school in which people
receive some form of planned or systematic Bible instruction in
a class setting.” It is estimated that nearly 45 million adults and
22 million children and teens participate in church-based
classroom instruction on Sunday mornings.
Sunday school remains a part of what we do to reach our
cities and towns and communities. It is part of what we do to
teach our children. It is both outreach—and in-reach. It allows
us an opportunity to reach into our community and touch the
unchurched. It provides a place of learning for our own children to be “rooted and grounded in love” and in truth.
As a senior pastor, I do not personally select the curriculum
used by our POA Sunday School Department. I have placed
leaders, men and women I trust without question, over the
Sunday School Department and in our Sunday School classes
to seek out both methods and materials that will help them
best convey the truth of the gospel to their target group—from
beginners to adults.
Time and again, we order, and reorder, Word Aflame materials for our Sunday school classes. In our estimation, it is the
best product available to meet our current needs.
At The Pentecostals of Alexandria, we continue to use Word
Aflame publications for our children’s ministries—Toddler,
Kindergarten, Beginner, and Primary—ages three to ten. In
addition, we have found that several of our seasoned older
saints, while attending and participating in other classes on
Sunday morning, welcome the use of the Adult quarterly for
their personal Bible study and devotion. Consequently, our
Word Aflame order always includes them.
Barna’s study also identified a move toward customized curriculum specifically for elementary age classes (nearly 18
percent of those surveyed). At The Pentecostals, this has not
been the case. Where we identified the need for customized
curriculum is in our youth department and adult classes. There
is a very pronounced call to address specific needs of our
teens and adults, which is better served by our own customized curriculum. Because we have an exceptional youth
and adult ministry staff, virtually unlimited resources, and highly
skilled creative writers and artists on our staff, this has been
our best option. However, it should be noted that in churches
where time, staff, and resources are more limited than ours,
the Word Aflame curriculum might well be the best tool for
them to use to reach and teach their youth.
While other materials may be available from other sources—
from the Internet to other written publications—the Word Aflame
product is always doctrinally sound. Specific topics must be
addressed in a timely fashion. Sometimes this is better facilitated by other sources and resources. However, when outside
resources are used, it is always with the required extra precaution regarding the presence of and/or reference to doctrines
we do not embrace. With seasoned teachers, this is not a
problem and basically is done automatically. However, this
could easily create a problem with a less experienced teacher.
Word Aflame’s commitment to the biblical doctrines of the
United Pentecostal Church International makes it a Sunday
school materials resource with an added advantage over all the
rest.
As the staff and writers of Word Aflame literature seek to
make their products both appealing and effective, I urge you to
support them by investing in Oneness
Apostolic literature. It is an investment in
eternity!
a
Anthony Mangun is the Senior Pastor of
The Pentecostals of Alexandria in
Alexandria, Louisiana.
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tips for
teachers
Billie J. Lambert
tips
tips
Teaching
youth
teens
and
teens
youth
for
Avoid class “drop-outs” and achieve locality. It is a common thing for young people
to feel disconnected and over looked.
ive your students a feeling of “belonging.” Your complete acceptance of them as a friend and group
member is essential. This involves listening carefully to
them when they are talking. Give them opportunities to
express their thoughts and ideas, and do not be shocked by
what they say. When they want to talk to you, stop, look them
in the eye and give them your heart as well as your time. If
they feel you really care about them and if they have satisfying
experiences with class members, they will be far less likely to
become a dropout. They will be more loyal to church as well.
Keep in mind you are not teaching a class you are teaching
individuals. Know as much as you can about each student.
Ask God to help you help them with their personal need. You
do not have to cover all the lesson content every time you
teach. Even though they do need systematic teaching of the
Word, there are times you need to be discerning as the Holy
Ghost makes you aware of a need. Teach about things they
need now! The purpose is to help young people develop into
mature Christians committed to living for God.
Remember you are a teacher outside the classroom as well
as inside the classroom. Be friendly at all times; practice wear-
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ing a smile. Never be curt or sarcastic. No matter what a
young person says or does, never, under any circumstance,
ridicule them in front of the class or in front of anyone for that
matter.
At every opportunity, make sure each one gets recognition
for what they do well. Be quick to express your appreciation for
anything deserving it. Comment favorably about them to their
parents and friends.
Young people need someone to listen to them; to really
care. When they know you care about them and are very interested in their well being, it can influence their direction in life.
What do you do the first fifteen minutes of your class? Do
your opening remarks capture the interest of your students?
Does the opening consist of the same remarks or announcements Sunday after Sunday? A Sunday school authority once
said about teaching that, “The worse method is the method
used all the time.”
be more important than helping a child? Make time to be available by always arriving early to class, not rushing away after
class, and plan a get-together with all your pupils now and
then. Make sure you have the lesson, lesson material, and
your classroom ready before the first child arrives so you will
have time to talk and listen to them.
It is important to talk with parents, either by telephone or by
seeing them in person. Say something complementary about
their child. Parents like to feel their child is not just another
name on an attendance roll. It takes time to show concern, but
it is well worth the effort.
Show appreciation to all your students for their faithful attendance at Sunday school. Often so much concern and attention
is shown the absentee, that the child who never misses is
hardly noticed. Send a card or letter to everyone present in the
class telling them how glad you are that they come to Sunday
school regularly. They will be delighted. Plan to send each
Your complete acceptance of them as a friend and
group member is essential. This involves listening
carefully to them when they are talking.
Vary the first porting of the class time by providing opportunity for your students to discuss what is going on in their life
right now. Lead the class for a few minutes in a discussion
about anything of interest to them. Something that has
occurred nationally, a world event, or something that has happened in school within the last week. Let them discuss the
subject freely and tell how they feel about it.
Refreshments help people relax. Serve something simple as
they talk. Weave announcements for the week into the conversation. Refreshments will help them talk more freely and will
encourage latecomers to arrive early. This discussion time
gives students opportunity to discuss subjects of concern to
them. It also keeps you up-to-date on the student world. Listen
carefully to their discussion; make mental notes of what they
say. At appropriate times during the lesson you can make mention of them. Jot down notes after class so you can refer to
their answers as you prepare future lessons so you can slant
lessons to meet their need.
IDEAS AND TIPS FOR TEACHING CHILDREN
Talk over everyday experiences with each child. Greet children individually and talk briefly to them as they arrive. Not only
will you get to know the child better this way, but also sometimes, they will tell you of things they are never able to discuss
with a parent. Children are starved for adult attention.
“Many parents do not listen to their children. There have
been times I have felt that I had a better communication with a
child than their parents, simply because I took time to listen to
their problems and experiences.” Listening takes time, love,
and patience. Everyone is short on time these days, but we
make time for the things that are important to us. What could
child in your class mail at least once every quarter.
Object Reminder—Bring an object or pictures from the previous weeks lesson. Ask two or more students to choose an
item or picture and tell the class what they remember about the
story.
Make a “Sound Box” from a small paper box.—this is a game
small children like to play. In the box place things that can
make different sounds such as crumpling a piece of paper,
ringing a bell, dropping a ball, or playing a music box. Let a
child choose an item from the box, then turn their back to the
class and make the sound.
As the children call out the sound, guide the conversation:
Can you tell us the sound Jimmy is making? What do we use to
hear sound? Who made our ears? Are we glad God made our
ears so we can hear all these sounds? Let’s all pray a prayer of
thanks for God’s gift of hearing.
Indoor Scavenger Hunt—Look through a catalog and find
things you know are mentioned in the Bible such as axes, a
nails, shoes, etc. Write these items on the chalkboard and ask
your Primary or Preteen students to use a concordance to find
the same item in the Bible. This is an alternate game to the
sword drill. Individual students, or teams, can race each other
to see who can find the most answers.
a
Billie J. Lambert attends First Pentecostal Church in
Jackson, Mississippi, and is a frequent speaker of teacher
training seminars around North America.
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helping the
hurting
David Reynolds
“A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows,
is God in his holy habitation” (Psalm 68:5).
More children live without fathers in
America than in any other nation of the
world. Most of the families coming into
the church come with fatherless children.
irls seek the approval, love, and physical touch of their
fathers in order to know how to relate to other men. If
they do not receive these, they are very vulnerable to
the attention of older males who would prey on them for sexual
gratification. All children without fathers are hurting, but it is
especially painful for our boys. How can they accept the love
of a caring heavenly Father if they have never experienced the
love and care of an earthly male?
“In America today, over 22 million children are raised in
fatherless households.i That means four out of every ten children go to bed at night in homes where their father does not
live,”ii says Alysse Michelle Elhage.iii Dr. Richard Andrews further claims that, “Seven out of ten children entering schools in
many areas come from a household headed by a female below
the poverty level.” After thirty yeas in public education, my estimation is that over 90 percent of primary teachers are female.
This high percentage is reflected in our early Sunday school
classes.
Where are the male role models for our boys?
In October 2002, we all were shocked by the ongoing
sniper case in which people were shot randomly and seemingly for no reason. None of us were surprised, when the
perpetrators where caught, that they were male—but many
never stopped to consider that they were fatherless males.
Malvo, the teenager, was seeking a model and a male father
figure, and Muhammed was there to provide it. Children who
suffer abandonment, who are hurt and the wounds left to fester, can allow this misplaced anger to hurt and kill the
innocent. Both men were from broken, dysfunctional homes.
Both were seeking male companionship.
Children, in order to flourish, must have two parents—a loving and nurturing mother and a strong and caring father. If they
do not have both at home, they will seek it in the gangs and on
the streets. We provide now—or we pay later.
According to reports compiled on the Internet by an organization for men called Menstuff, and another group called
Ethnic Baby, which seeks to strengthen African-American families, fatherless children make up
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Hurting Children
in the Church
boys
without
fathers
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“Seven out of ten children entering schools in many areas come
from a household headed by a female below the poverty level.”
• 90% of homeless and runaways
• 80% of rapists
• 71% of pregnant teenagers
• 63% of youth suicides
• 90% of repeat arsonists
• 71% of school dropouts
• 75% of patients in chemical abuse centers
• 70% of juveniles in institutions
• 85% of youths in prisons
must teach God’s principles that cement families and the steps
to restore marriages. Divorce not only devastates adults but
also destroys our children and teenagers. Death is not the primary reason for “fatherless children”—divorce is.
What would Christ have us do? Repeatedly in the Word of
God, we are told that we have a responsibility to the widows
and the fatherless.
“He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and
the heart of the children to their fathers” (Malachi 4:6).
These statistics mean that children from a fatherless home are
• 20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders,
• 9 times more likely to drop out of high school,
• 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances,
• 20 times more likely to end up in prison,
• 10 times more likely to commit rape, and
• 32 times more likely to run away from home.iv
In an editorial reacting to the front cover of the Newsweek of
January 30, 2006, and the feature article, “The Boy Crisis at
Every Level of Education,” Rich Lowry said in part:
A reason for this latest [educational] crisis is just as girls
had begun to pull even with boys in the 1990s, feminists
hyped a crisis over girls doing poorly in school that
caused an overreaction harmful to boys. One of the chief
culprits was scholar Carol Gilligan, who is given space in
the Newsweek to address the boy crisis. She writes disapprovingly: “For some the trouble boys are having with
schools become grounds for reinstituting traditional codes
of manhood, including a return to the patriarchal family.” It
is clear, however, that patriarchy is exactly what many
boys need—lots of patriarchy, up close and personal
(Oregonian, January 24, 2006).
Yes, we need traditional codes of manhood! Every child
needs a father and a father’s influence in his or her home!
We are also losing the influence of fathers in the churches
today. Many single mothers are coming into our churches,
bringing their little boys. Are we ready and willing to recognize
and to meet this need? These fatherless boys need positive
examples to follow for living a Christ-like life, for manhood, and
for marriage. The above Newsweek article observed that, “A
boy without a father figure is like an explorer without a map.”
Boys need male companionship and a male mentor in their
lives. The church must reach out to these fatherless boys and
touch their lives.
Fatherless children are a phenomenon that we are accepting in our churches and in our society as a problem with no
solution—but God is the solution and the church is His minister. We, as children of God, have the ministry of reconciliation
for homes (II Corinthians 5:18). One of the ministries of John
the Baptist was to restore the relationship between fathers and
their children (see Malachi 4:6; Matthew 17:11-13). The church
Prescription:
We as a church must:
1. Teach the men in the church the importance of fatherhood and the importance of keeping their marriages
strong. They must understand the damage that is done
when they abandon their marriage and their children.
2. Screen and train our strong men who love God and have
strong marriages to be mentors—to pick out a boy and to
give that boy specific attention every time they see him.
They need to take him home for meals, to McDonalds for
hamburgers, and outdoors to fish and play ball.
3. Talk to these fatherless children and share that the reasons they battle with fears, insecurity, and anger have a
cause—but that they do have a heavenly Father who will
never leave them or forsake them. Let them know they
also have the church, which will be there for them. (Then
make sure we are!)
4. Insist that the men who come into the church and have
children by former marriages assertively reach out to their
children. They should never give up on reaching their children.
5. Often provide for our saints classes and teaching on marriage and parenting relationships.
6. Encourage good men to take on the challenge of ministering in Sunday school to these boys by teaching the
Beginner, Primary, and Pre-teen classes.
a
David Reynolds has authored six books and writes a
monthly column on the Teaching Ministry and on Family
Relationships. He has served in the teaching profession for
over thirty years.
Fatherhood Facts, 1997. National Fatherhood Initiative.
Ibid.
iii
Alysse Michelle Elhage, Too Many Fatherless Children, Can Mentoring
Make a Difference? North Carolina Family Policy Council Findings .
i
ii
iv
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servant to
servant
Debra Hathaway
Guest Writer: Paul D. Mooney
BibleBelieving
Good Literature Will Help You Build
A Bible-Believing Congregation
From the beginning, God put mankind in
the publishing business.
oly men wrote and spoke as they were “moved upon
by the Holy Spirit.” The written Word is the foundation
for all we are and all we believe.
Writers and readers are involved in a spiritual bond that
defies imagination. It has yet to be fully known what impact the
printed page has had on civilization. Thomas Edison, who was
lacking in formal education and was often referred to as selftaught, spent his childhood days rummaging around in libraries
reading and thinking. What might he have read that inspired
his mind to embrace a positive outlook on life? What written
word may have caused him, with fierce determination, to
embrace a vision that is expressed to this day by every lighted
city and every phone call?
Good parents give their children books. They read to them
from books; they teach them from books. The homes of bright
and happy children are littered with books. What greatness
might be triggered in the mind and heart of some young child
by one sentence, one phrase, one verse, one word?
Strong well-trained churches are Bible-reading churches.
These churches recognize the importance of literature. If one
H
generation is to train its young and make a strong future possible, it must provide the printed word to its children.
It is likely that the most enduring work of the United
Pentecostal Church is the abundant teaching and training literature that has been developed over the past decades. The
outstanding men and women who have given themselves to this
work are to be praised. They have sacrificed time and talent to
give birth to an outstanding body of literature that meets needs
and provides a foundation of “printed truths” that stand as a testament to Pentecostal doctrine and beliefs. This is a great gift
of love to the whole of the Oneness movement worldwide.
Early Pentecostal leaders established their churches with
strong and clear statements of beliefs presented through the
printed word. Thousands of people were won to God through
magazines, tracts, flyers, and pamphlets. No other media
meets the intellectual hunger that people have today for substance. As in all previous generations, this present world must
“be persuaded in their own minds.” Literature is the key.
Many useful things are underused and underappreciated.
Such is the case of our literature. Churches have access to
outstanding material that supports true Bible doctrine. Training
helps that give credibility to the principles of righteousness and
Godly life styles are printed and ready to use. It is doubtful we
can overcome today’s radically changing culture without getting more and more printed material into the hands of the
“saints” and of the new converts. This is crucial. It is a must.
The cultural war is real, and good literature is a powerful
weapon against the force of modernity.
Put good material in people’s hands and it will provide a
guideline for their thinking and contemplation of the preaching
and the witness. Examining the doctrine or truth presented in
printed materials allows for reflection and investigation. Printed
information respects people’s minds and helps them review
and sort through what they have heard about the Christian
doctrine. The writing and publishing of materials demonstrates
a church’s love for the truth and shows the inquirer that their
need for study and research is respected. Nothing is being
hidden, “it is written.” People who are “fully persuaded in their
minds” stay in the church; they join, they commit, they understand. Emotional response is vital and to be desired, but
without the mind’s acceptance and understanding, the truth
can be choked out by doubt and second thoughts.
Every church should rejoice to see printed material being
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teachers
devotion
Gary D. Erickson
Guest Writer: Elise Mckenzie
SUNDAY SCHOOL
IS VITAL
SUNDAY
SCHOOL
Sunday school was a vital and integral
part of Weston UPC, and continues to be
so now that we have grown into Faith
Sanctuary.
ur assembly was established through Sunday school.
A dear sister, Amanda Butler, each Sunday collected
children in her apartment complex and brought them
to church by public transit, until we could afford a secondhand van to use for bus ministry.
Our former pastor, F. W. McKenzie, feeling somewhat discouraged with the lack of results from pastoring, had
considered resigning the church until he saw Amanda standing
in front of the small church building with a handful of children.
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Now we conduct Sunday school programs not only within
our church building, but also in ten satellite locations in various
communities in our local area. Our current pastor, Granville
McKenzie, continues the vision of a strong Sunday school as a
cornerstone to a strong church.
As Sunday school is vitally important to us, so are the materials we use to deliver a quality program to our students. These
materials assist our teachers in presenting life-affecting messages week after week.
One major source of assistance to us is the Word Aflame
Press (WAP) curriculum materials, which we have purchased
from the Pentecostal Publishing House since the very early
days of our Sunday school program.
A quick poll of teachers and administrators in our assembly
resulted in many positive responses regarding several aspects
of the curriculum materials, which include teacher’s manuals,
visual aids, student activity books, and take-home papers.
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Some of the comments expressed are as follows:
“Very detailed lessons; anyone can pick it up and use it.”
“New teachers have ideas to assist them in preparing and
presenting lessons.”
“Teachers manuals give information regarding age groups
and tips for teaching them.”
“Visual packets contain visual aids, checklists, charts,
CDs/cassettes, posters, etc., for classroom use.”
“In addition, or as an alternative, teachers can use any of the
many ideas for visual aids/bulletins boards included in the
teacher’s manual.”
“Ideas for activity centers and suggestions for setting up centers are given.”
“Timely and biblical themes are created and lessons written
to support these themes, with thought given to the age levels
being taught.”
“Background information is given to help support lesson topics.”
“Information about missionaries is included for different age
groups.”
“Lessons include ideas for life applications and/or evangelistic appeal, which can be used as they apply to the students
present.”
One of our teachers was particularly impressed by an interaction with a division editor, who personally responded to an
e-mail request for assistance. The editor gave ideas relevant to
the issues with which the teacher was dealing, offered prayer
support, and later followed up to see how things were going.
You do not often get that kind of personal assistance and sincere interest!
Of course, one of the major benefits to us of using materials
created by WAP is that we can be assured that the lesson ideas
will reflect the sound doctrine to which we are committed—that
God was in Christ; that Jesus made the way for our salvation
through his death, burial and resurrection; that we identify with
Jesus’ life and sacrifice and partake of that salvation through
repentance, water baptism by immersion in the name of Jesus,
receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit with the initial evidence of
speaking with other tongues, and the continued evidence of a
changed and godly life.
It is comforting to pick up a manual and know that the images
presented will support what we teach concerning modesty in
dress and appearance. What better role models for our kids
than others who share and reflect their beliefs and lifestyle?
There are a few things to consider when using these materials. Each lesson contains a lot of information and ideas; lesson
outlines are structured to fit up to a two-hour period. As a
teacher, one has to choose the most important, relevant, and
doable parts of the lesson for use from week to week. The
sheer volume of material can be a little overwhelming and intimidating, but it provides you with lots to choose from and use.
Also, remember lessons are written reflecting life experiences that may differ from those of your students. Some lesson
ideas and/or the main focus of the lesson may not relate
exactly to the experiences and needs of the students you are
teaching. The teacher needs to use his/her judgment and
knowledge of the students and adapt the lesson(s) accordingly.
We as an assembly desire to support our teachers and our
students; we also feel that it is vital to support the publishing of
literature that provides much of the support that we desire,
while promoting the essential doctrines upon which we stand.
We appreciate the voices of knowledge and experience and
the consistent quality that the WAP Sunday school materials
have offered us over the years. We will continue to use and
benefit from them as they continue to develop and adapt to
meet the needs of new generations and increasingly varied
communities and cultures.
Thank you, Word Aflame Press, for standing in the gap and
providing an arm of support to Faith Sanctuary and to all of our
Sunday schools.
a
Elise McKenzie teaches the Young
Adults class at Faith Sanctuary in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, and has served as
Sunday school superintendent for this
thriving revival church. Granville
McKenzie is her pastor and her brother.
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carried home by adults and children. Most times these items
become part of people’s lives. They keep them. They come
back to them. They share them. They actually enjoy having
material placed in their hands. Note that when printed lectures,
Bible studies, and other materials are passed out, people
clamor for them. Learning is enhanced by organized material
and formats. Teachers themselves are more confident when
they know they are covering written lessons. They know where
they are, where they have been, and what they yet need to
cover. They feel better organized and have assurance that they
are teaching what their leadership wants taught.
It is true that churches could develop and print their own
personalized material. However, it would be almost impossible
to have such broad and diverse material as is produced by the
literature committees and writers of the Pentecostal Publishing
House. Powerful wisdom and insights flow from the hearts of
the vast number of child rearing experts, educators, preachers, doctors, youth workers, missionaries, and experienced
mothers and fathers who produce literature for our churches. It
is a resource that should not be ignored. Use it. As someone
said, “there is no need to reinvent the wheel.” First time users
of the Word Aflame literature will be pleased at the “perfect
solution” to the need for study and training material.
Use literature. You are not wasting money. Good literature will
help you build a Bible-believing congregation that can defend the
faith and will be more faithful in all aspects of church life. In fact,
the printed page is a primary force in revival and discipleship.
Calvary Tabernacle’s overall training revolves around the first
class teaching material we purchase from the UPCI. Without it,
I sincerely believe we would have a much more difficult time in
our efforts to establish our new converts.
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Paul D. Mooney is the pastor of Calvary
Tabernacle in Indianapolis, serves as assistant general superintendent of the Eastern
District UPCI, and president of Indiana Bible
College where he teaches numerous
courses. He began broadcasting in his teens
and continues to produce a daily broadcast,
“Bread of Life.” He has spearheaded the “Steadfast
Conference” which focuses on Oneness teaching and doctrine, and “Rushing Mighty Wind” and M.A.R.C. preaching
conferences.
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