Adult Lesson Plans

Student Jim Collins developed a 3 hour workshop for parents that helped them learn to evaluate children’s books and see how they can be tools for faith conversations with their children.  Books used in this workshop include: How Full is Your Bucket? (Tom Rath and Mary...

Union-PSCE will be closed tomorrow, Good Friday, and we are therefore posting the final two sessions in this series of lessons today.  Session 6 helps parents consider how to practice worship with children and session 7 demonstrates possibilities for Bible study with children.  A...

Healing is the focus of this session in the Practicing Christianity with Children series by Kim Lee.  Miss Tizzy and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, as well as art works, help parents experience how to help their children explore this aspect of Christian life. Download session...

The practice of prayer is central to the life of faith of most Christians.  Using a variety of children’s books, parents begin to explore their understanding of prayer and how to help their children develop their own understanding and practice of prayer. Download session 4 here.

This lesson, third in a series of seven about teaching Christian practices to children, focuses on the psychosocial development of children.   Designed to use with parents, this session (and the one on March 26, 2010) sets the context of children and Christian practices in a...

An understanding of how children think and learn can be helpful in exploring how to engage them in Christian practices such as prayer, worship, Bible study and healing.  Today’s session, the second of seven, focuses on children’s cognitive development, utilizing the...

For the next several days, we will be posting a series of lessons written for parents of preschool and elementary children at the South Mecklenburg Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, NC.  These seven sessions reflect  on the Reformed understanding of infant baptism and its...

On February 26, Union-PSCE student Marcia Rauch reviewed Jan Karon’s Miss Fannie’s Hat. Today, she expands on her review by making that book (and Luke’s story of the widow who gave all she had) the centerpiece of a session for adults about stewardship.  As...