I am a Sunday school teacher in a small congregation with a very small budget. Where can I find additional resources?
Ask everyone and everywhere you can. If you belong to one of the mainline denominations, ask your pastor to remind your congregation that we have lost a generation and a half of members – if we lose the current generation, we have no future. Ask your pastor and council to reconsider the allocation of resources. Ask for help at the synod, diocese, or conference level. My bishop (Southwestern California, ELCA) is teaching a series of workshops for Sunday school teachers. If you are an Episcopalian, please explore the training in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. The training is expensive, but the bishops of several dioceses are paying for it, rather than asking the congregations to bear the burden. Other denominations are also welcome at the training, which leads you to teach Sunday school as though it were Montessori school. Network with other congregations in your conference or community. Larger, wealthier congregations (even of other denominations) may have resources they are willi
