Holding their Attention: Tips and Tricks for Teachers
By Cowboy Steve
When it comes to teaching the Released Time Bible Classes we want to keep the students attention - and sometimes that can be a challenge! So what can we do? We’ve probably all heard it said how important visuals are, but sometimes you just don’t have enough pictures to keep things moving. In those times you become the visual! How? Here are some ideas:
1. Move around. Don’t stay in one spot up front. Act out (a little) part of the lesson. For example: if teaching about David and Goliath, you put on Saul’s armor or a coat that ...
The Rewards Of A Teacher
By Mark Redka
Rewards are nice, aren’t they? It feels great when people enjoy a meal you’ve cooked or someone tells you that we look nice. It’s rewarding when people notice that you’ve lost weight after you’ve been diligent on a diet (not that I know from personal experience). I love to look out the window at the lawn I have just mowed or to admire a newly waxed vehicle. That’s instant gratification. Yet not all rewards are so instant or obvious.
Our motive as teachers shouldn’t be rewards. It should be our love for our ...
A Life Changing Understanding of Support Raising
by Jordan Smith
When I first realized that God was calling me on a journey to minister overseas, my first thought was, “Oh, no, I’m going to have to raise financial support.” At that moment I had some very mixed feelings. Let’s just say I wasn’t the most excited about it. I saw my ministry overseas as the goal and support raising as the obstacle to trudge through in order to do the ministry I really felt called to do overseas. Today, however, after living on financial support for about 4 years, I think about it much differently. There ...
A SERVANT’S HEART
Work is over and you’re headed home, but first there are special errands to run. When your done and get home, you marvel once again at the all-too-common coldness of our fellow humans. Doesn’t anyone smile anymore? Doesn’t anyone apologize for making a person wait or for giving bad service?
The boss of a moving company has a philosophy we wish every person who serves us would emulate. Knowing what a traumatic experience moving can be, packing up and starting a new life in a new place, he takes a point of letting his clients know he understands and ...
AN INVISIBLE WORK–WAIT ON THE LORD
Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1
Trees have specific seasons for dormancy- a time when the tree appears to be inactive and not growing. This season of rest comes immediately prior to a season of rapid and accelerated growth. During dormancy, the cells and tissues within the tree are being repaired and built up. This activity is invisible to the eye. The tree is quietly preparing for the spring.
Dormancy is one of the most important periods in the life cycle of the tree. It is how a tree ...
