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Flake’s Five-Step Formula for Preschool Sunday School Growth

Flake’s Five-Step Formula for Preschool Sunday School Growth. Flake’s Formula for Preschool Sunday School. Who was Arthur Flake? What was his “formula”? Why are we going back to a century-old formula? How can Flake’s Formula help Preschool Sunday School?.

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Flake’s Five-Step Formula for Preschool Sunday School Growth

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  1. Flake’s Five-Step Formula for Preschool Sunday School Growth

  2. Flake’s Formula for Preschool Sunday School • Who was Arthur Flake? • What was his “formula”? • Why are we going back to a century-old formula? • How can Flake’s Formula help Preschool Sunday School?

  3. Flake’s Formula for Preschool Sunday School Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.” Matthew 9:37-38 Holman CSB®

  4. Flake’s Formula for Preschool Sunday School • Know the Possibilities • Enlarge the Organization • Provide Space and Equipment • Enlist and Train the Workers • Go After the People

  5. Know the Possibilities • Census data and Primary Ministry Area • A religious census • Telephone survey with mail follow-up • Church membership roll and inactive Sunday School members • Worship service guests • Summer and school ministries • Special events • Newspaper notices • Newcomers • FRAN’s

  6. Enlarge the Organization • Prepare for the possibilities. • Organize by age groups. • Start new units. • Enlarge the preschool organization. • Minister to babies and parents. • Enlarge the organization for adults.

  7. Provide Space and Equipment • What are ideal space recommendations for Preschool Sunday School? • How will multiple Sunday School hours affect Preschool Sunday School? • Why are “preschool & parking” important to growth in Sunday School? • How do you handle “unmovable adults”? • What do you do with preschoolers when adults meet in “home groups”? • Why and how do you reduce clutter and nonessential equipment?

  8. Provide Space and Equipment Recommended Maximum Age Enrollment Teachers Enrollment • Babies–2s 9 3 12 • 3s–Pre-K 16 4 20 • Kindergarten 20 4 24

  9. Enlist and Train the Workers • Where almost 100 percent of preschool teachers will be found . . . • No one has asked me! • Praying for leaders • Don’t say no for someone else. • Enlist with integrity. • The importance of training • Training methods • The apprentice • The curriculum connection

  10. Go After the People • Contacts • Two Categories of Prospects • The “Definites” • Prioritize About Responsiveness • Go • Leave Something • The Empty Chair • Witness

  11. Flake’s Formula for Preschool Sunday School “When Jesus saw large crowds around Him, He gave the order to go to the other side of the sea. A scribe approached Him and said, ‘Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go!’ Jesus told him, ‘Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.’ ‘Lord,’ another of His disciples said, ‘first let me go bury my father.’ But Jesus told him, ‘Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.’ ” Matthew 8:18-22, Holman CSB®

  12. Flake’s Formula for Preschool Sunday School • What do you need to do before you can follow Jesus? • What do you need to do before you can go into the fields? Here am I; send me! Send me now!

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