I am excited about the beginning of Sunday School next week. I hope that you will make plans on coming out to Sunday School and to bringing others out to Sunday School as well.
The first Sunday School was started in 1780s by a man named Robert Raikes who had a burden for the children of his day. He started a Sunday School in Gloucester, England in 1780 and by 1786 an estimated 250,000 children were attending Sunday Schools all over the place.
By the mid-1980s the U.S. alone had 29.7 million Sunday School students, although there has been a significant decline in Sunday Schools in the late 1980s and 1990s.
As we begin our Sunday School program next week at Fellowship Baptist Church, I ask that all of us pray for God's working in our Sunday School program. Pray for our teachers. Pray for our students. Pray for God to be glorified and lives to be changed.
I found these verses the other day that I thought were appropriate for this week's bulletin. (To the tune of God Bless America)
God bless our Sunday School - Built on Thy Word;
Leaning only on Jesus As the way and the truth and the Word
From the preschool, To the high school,
To the seniors, one and all;
God bless our Sunday School - On Thee we call
God bless our Sunday School - On Thee we call.
God use our Sunday School - Stir us, we pray.
Move us boldly to witness of Thy Son Who's the truth and the Way
With our families and our neighbors
In the country and the town,
God use our Sunday School - May grace abound.
God use our Sunday School - May grace abound.
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