One of the biggest threat faced in Sabbath School is members not showing up on time. Get ways this threat can be stopped
One of the biggest threat faced in
Sabbath School is members not showing up on time. What percentage of your
church members arrive at Sabbath School early, 100 percent? 80 percent? 50
percent? 20 percent? 10 percent? Recently I started visiting churches around
the nation, I noticed that Sabbath School starts on time, but the percentage of
Sabbath School members present at the beginning of the Service was less than 50
percent. Do you think it is a problem in the church? Do you think the Sabbath
School officials are to blame? Do you think the fault is from the
members? This article will be focusing on ways to draw people early to
Sabbath School.
Let's carefully consider the following
suggestion:
The first and the most efficient way to
make members to come early to Sabbath School is prayer. The Sabbath School
superintendent and his officials must see the need to organize prayers for
themselves and Sabbath School members.
Prayer points includes:
Spiritual growth for all members-
coming early to church is an indication that the spiritual health of your
members is good.
Also pray for membership attendance and
also for new convert to come into the church through Sabbath School. Other
prayer points can be included.
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2. Planning
Going through the creation story, you
will realize that God is very organized. From creation of light down to
creation of man and the rest on the seventh day. The master planner desires
that we lay careful plans for every aspect of His work. This plans includes
drawing people to Sabbath School on time.
As a Sabbath School superintendent, you
need to plan on how to make your members be in church early. In doing this, you
need to know your base and ask yourself the following questions: How many
members do you have? How many arrive early last year? Last month? What is
your specific goal for this year? How are you going to achieve it this year?
Remember, you get what you work for.
3. Get a Good Plan
One of the best ways to get Sabbath
School members to come early to church is for them to see that you have good
plans for them.
Here are some suggestions:
Call one another tactics- The Sabbath School superintendent
should encourage Sabbath School members to call at least one person on Friday
evening. Sabbath School staff, teachers should try and call one person and
invite him/her to come early to Sabbath School. These calls are just to
show concern and love for one another.
Good Example Tactics- It will be a bad example if
members of the Sabbath School crews arrives late to church. They should arrive
early and welcome the members.
Get a Yearly Calendar- Nothing is as nice as when the
Sabbath School members sees a plan for the year or for the month. Especially
when the programs are nice and they are in our church bulletin.
Sweeter Beginning- Organize special musical presentation
or special features early in your program, right after opening prayer. Make
sure the members are aware of this programs, announce it the week before.
I Wish Tactics- Make them wish that they had come
earlier. Recap the morning activities at the end of the Sabbath School
program.
Appreciation Tactics- Always appreciate those that arrive
early, if possible give them gift
And finally, always make them to look
forward to next week Sabbath School.
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4. Evaluation
There is every need for the Sabbath
School council to periodically evaluate its program. They need to know if their
tactics are working or not, if the Sabbath School is meeting the need of the
Sabbath School members, if they are meeting the objective of the Sabbath
School. Regular Evaluation will help the Sabbath School crew to discover ways
to improve the Sabbath School programs. By God's grace, with these few step
coming late to Sabbath School will drastically reduce.
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