Preparation
Preparation for The Story involves planning, prayer, and vision casting. The planning phase starts approximately ten weeks before your start date, and includes a process of preparation for your staff, your key influencers, and your ministry leaders.
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Communication
Communication for The Story needs to occur before the campaign, both inside and outside the church, as well as during the campaign to enhance the campaign itself. Use these resources to build your ads, staging, videos, bulletins, response cards, and presentations.
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Weekend Services
Weekend services are a vital component of The Story experience. Use these resources to plan your services – from song choices to handouts.
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Adult Ministries
Complementing The Story message on Sundays with a strong Adult Ministry program helps solidify and broaden the teaching. The goal of the adult curriculum is to develop a character or concept that corresponds with each chapter of The Story without attempting to cover the breadth of the other materials. Use these materials for your different Adult Ministry classes.
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Youth Ministries
The Beta Churches of 2010 will be testing the new youth curriculum, The Story Teen Edition. Check out the samples of the lesson plans and videos for Week 5 (more will be coming soon!).
Last year’s beta churches used the resources in the Teen Toolchest, comprised of a variety of talk outlines, special features, activities, and discussion questions for every chapter. Use the Teen Toolchest as an extra resource to plan lessons for groups that meet more than once a week. Use the Parents’ Pages as a family resource (middle school and high school component included) to help parents engage their teenagers in The Story.
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Children’s Ministries
The Beta Churches of 2010 will be testing the new children’s curriculum based on The Story for Kids. Check out the samples of the upcoming lesson plans for preschool, early elementary, and later elementary (more will be coming soon!).
Last year’s beta churches used the Sunday school lessons created by Oak Hills. Use these lessons as an extra resource to plan for groups that meet more than once a week. An exciting feature of the curriculum is the weekly Trading Cards which the children love to collect. Use the Parents’ Pages as a family resource (preschool and elementary components included) to help parents engage their children in The Story.
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IdeaShare
The IdeaShare holds a wealth of ideas that have worked well for past churches. Use the resources as they are, or modify them to meet your church’s needs.
Conference Calls
The conference calls address key issues in preparing to launch The Story. Listen in as campaign expert Shelley Leith guides churches through the ins and outs of launching a successful church-wide experience.
