Family Bible Study Series Curriculum Guide
Sixteen quarters, every age group, one topic each week. This guide shows how it all works.
The Family Bible Study Series Curriculum Guide is a 46-page PDF for the elders, education directors, and teachers running the Family Bible Study Series in their congregation.
How This Guide Helps
A curriculum that puts every class from the nursery to the adult class on the same topic only works when the teachers understand the plan and know how to adapt it to the students in front of them.
The guide explains the goals and structure of the four-year program, describes the characteristics of each age group, and offers practical help with teaching aids, techniques, and lesson planning. Twelve experienced teachers and preachers contributed articles.
What's Inside
- The curriculum: goals of the program, an overview of the four-year series, and "The Seven Laws of Teaching"
- Characteristics of each age group, from the nursery and preschoolers through middle school, teenagers, and adults
- Teaching aids and suggestions for various ages, including online teacher resources
- Teaching techniques, with an article on developing a lesson plan and a sample lesson plan
Format & Features
A 46-page, 8.5 x 11 PDF download in four sections.
Who It's For
Elders, education directors, and Bible class teachers in congregations using or considering the Family Bible Study Series.
Common Questions
Is this a printed book?
No. It's a PDF you download after purchase and can print for your teachers.
Does it include the lessons?
No. The lessons are in the sixteen quarterly workbooks. See the full list in the Family Bible Study Series.
About the Family Bible Study Series
The Family Bible Study Series is a four-year, sixteen-quarter Bible class curriculum. Every class in the congregation, from age two through adults, studies the same topic each week, so parents can reinforce the lesson at home in a short daily family devotion (Deuteronomy 6:4-9). Teachers cover each lesson from Wednesday through Sunday and adapt the material to their age group, and many preachers preview the coming week's topic in the Sunday evening sermon. The Curriculum Guide explains the program and gives teaching help for every age.
- Quarter 1: Getting to Know God
- Quarter 2: God's Plan for Man's Salvation
- Quarter 3: The Church That Jesus Built
- Quarter 4: In the Beginning
- Quarter 5: Israel on the Move
- Quarter 6: The United Kingdom
- Quarter 7: The Divided Kingdom
- Quarter 8: God's Plan for the Family
- Quarter 9: By What Authority?
- Quarter 10: In His Steps, Part 1
- Quarter 11: In His Steps, Part 2
- Quarter 12: The Acts of the Apostles
- Quarter 13: Themes from the Epistles, Part 1
- Quarter 14: Themes from the Epistles, Part 2
- Quarter 15: As He Thinketh
- Quarter 16: Things Most Surely Believed
About the Author
Ken Weliever was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and earned his degree from Florida College before further study at the University of South Florida and Wright State University. He has preached for churches in Ohio, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Kansas, and Texas and has led workshops on teacher training and strengthening family life. Arnold Schnabel began the curriculum that became this series in 1976, and Weliever rewrote it in 1986 for the Eastland church in Louisville, Kentucky, adding the teacher's manuals.
Product Details
- Author: Ken Weliever, with contributing writers
- Publisher: Spiritbuilding Publishers
- Series: Family Bible Study Series
- Pages: 46
- Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
- Format: PDF download