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We desire to produce a gospel-centered curriculum that will equip parents to thrive in their God-given roles as their child's primary disciple, thereby, connecting the church and the home. Treasuring Christ Curriculum provide a weekly take home resource that encourages parents to have meaningful gospel conversations about the material that was taught in Sunday School. This piece works as both a review of the previous week's lesson and a discipleship and training tool for parents. Here are four practical ways you can use the Connecting Church and Home resource page:

• Email that page to the parents in your ministry on Friday or Saturday afternoon. This will allow them to use it during the week as a discussion guide of the most recently taught lesson.
• You can print out the Connecting Church and Home resource page and give it to each of your teachers to send with the students as they leave your classroom.
• You can put the Connecting Church and Home resource page in a centralized location, maybe where your children check in for small groups.
• You can put a stack near the worship center or include them in the bulletin each week. Link to the Discover video and the Curriculum filters page

Treasuring Christ Curriculum is not only designed for the students, it is also designed for the teachers. Your teachers are also on a spiritual journey,  just like those they teach. The "For Your Edification" section of each lesson is written with the teacher's personal faith journey in mind. As we spoke to pastors across the country, two priorities that surfaced were:

• The need for teacher training
• The teachers' desires to be trained in order to be prepared to teach well.

• One of the ways that children and students learn about God is through music. Daniel Renstrom has worked with us to produce music for each quarter's theme. We know this will be a great benefit in your teaching.
• Jesus Wants My Heart is now available on iTunes and more songs will be added to the project soon.
• "Music's capability for union with words is unparalleled in any other art form. This means that the most exact for of communicating truth can be coupled to the most inexact (music) in a completely natural way. We are instructed to sing and make melody in our hearts to the Lord." - Harold Best, Unceasing Worship, pg 145-147

There are four main sections of each lesson: For Your Edification, Engage, Discover, and Treasure.

• For Your Edification - This section is focused on growing the teachers in their personal faith journey.  One priority that kept surfacing was the need for teacher training.  Teachers desire to be trained in order to be prepared to teach well. The For Your Edification section is written in view of edifying and equipping the teacher.
• Engage - Children and students alike need to see that God's Word speaks truth into the world in which they live. In this section, we connect their world with God's written Word.
• Discover: Every week children and students come to church with different backgrounds, pressures, temptations, joys and fears. It is vital that they know God's Word is truth that they can apply to every area of their lives. This section will include music by singer/songwriter Daniel Renstrom. We want children and students to discover for themselves the truth of God's Word.
• Treasure: Our priority on the Bible and its focus on the Gospel motivates us to share this treasure with others. Our desire is that students treasure Christ above all else and that they have a passion to show the world around them that they treasure Christ, a burden to go to their family, friends, neighbors and to the nations with this good news, and an encounter with Christ.

Whether we know it or not (or admit it or not), our children are on a mission each and every day, and so are we. We can live on mission for ourselves, with the desire to make our name great. Or we can live on mission for God. When children grow up in families that love missions and diversity, they are more likely as adults to do the same. The best thing parents can do is create an environment where their children can see the sadness that sin produces and hear God calling their names to help those who can't help themselves. This calling as parents is not a duty or an obligation; it is a gracious privilege offered to us. We seek to team with parents in giving students a picture of the world that is in desperate need for a Savior. Acts 2:39:  "For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself."

Let us clarify for you what we mean about our age groups (these are changeable to your specific situation).

• Early Childhood - 2-Kindergarten
• Elementary - 1st-4th grade
• Pre-Teen/Middle School - 5th-8th Grade
• High School -  9th-12th grade