Even
if you are not thinking about confirmation right now you may
be interested in using Professing Our Faith because it offers
such a strong background in teaching what we believe and what
it means to belong to God and to the community of faith. The
curriculum is suitable for use in educational settings other
than confirmation and in contexts other than Church School.
The Leader's Pack includes a Teacher's Guide, a 35-session
Student Book, a Student Book (six-week version), the Study Catechism:
Confirmation Version and a set of twelve certificates of Confirmation.
Additional copies of the 35-session and six-week session Student
Books as well as the Study Catechism and certificates will be
sold separately so that you can purchase one for each student
as needed. The Teacher's Guide has the familiar We Believe
lesson plan (A-B-C-D):
Assemble: God Calls Us Together
Belief: We Learn What Our Church Believes
Claim: We Live Out Our Faith
Depart: God Sends Us Into The World
The Beliefs section of the lesson varies from session to session,
incorporating Bible study as well as learning about the catechism,
our confessions, and our faith tradition.
The Rev. Meg Rift and the Rev. Eunice McGarrahan teamed up
to write the curriculum. After serving for 5 years as the denomination's
associate for POINT, Meg is now working from her Dallas, Texas
home as a freelance writer and workshop leader. Eunice (better
known as Junior) is an associate pastor at National Presbyterian
Church in our nation's capital. Meg brings an incredible talent
for developing lesson plans that are interactive and fun and
yet maintain a strong focus on the main points of the lesson.
Whether it is a game, a role-play, a discussion, or a craft,
it points toward the biblical and theological truth the lesson
is teaching.
Junior has been actively involved in youth ministry for over
30 years and has an amazing gift for putting deep theological
understanding into words with examples that relate well to the
experiences of today's young people. She is largely responsible
for the "Teacher to Teacher" sections in the Leader's
Guide and the "Did You Know?" sections in the Student
Book. These sections provide the biblical and theological background
for each week's lesson. Junior's experience and training give
the curriculum its solid moorings in the Reformed tradition.
Preview materials of Professing Our Faith: A Confirmation
Curriculum (#623007S) will be available February 1. You can
order these materials by calling PDS at (800) 524-2612
or by contacting your local presbytery resource
center or POINT person. The preview
materials include sample lessons and a detailed scope and sequence
of the curriculum.
Leader's Pack #623007
includes everything listed below for $89.95. Additional pieces
may be purchased as needed.
Leader's Guide #623008
$65.00
Student Book (35-week) #623009
$8.50
Student Book (8-week) #623010
$3.50
The Study Catechism: Confirmation Version #097752
$9.95
Twelve certificates of Confirmation with envelopes #060006
$7.50
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