Our Married Couples' Sunday School Class

Back in October of last year, my husband and I, along with another youngish couple in our church, started a new Sunday School class for married couples with school-aged children.

We visited hard and started out with a bang; I think we had six or seven couples the first Sunday.  We are really enjoying the class and all of the activities that have brought our families closer.

When we moved to this area 4 1/2 years ago and joined my husband's home church, there were very few young couples/families.  As far as I can remember, there was one couple with two children (the couple that joined us in starting this class) and one other newlywed couple who, at that time, had no children.  Now they are expecting #2 and are in the class as well.

It was difficult not having many friends at church our age and knowing that our young children did not have a lot of potential friends either, since we homeschool.  We really developed a burden to reach young families, and our pastor was and is behind us 100%.

Before starting the class, my husband ordered some material from Dr. Jeff Owens that really helped us get off on the right foot:

We began the class with a 12 week series about marriage in general that covered love, children, a couple's relationship with God, etc.  Now my husband is teaching a detailed series about finances: tithing, debt, God's view on wealth, etc.  It has all been wonderful, and we've enjoyed many fellowship opportunities such as a Mexican luncheon, a progressive dinner, an awesome Christmas party, and several lunches after church on Sundays (we try to have one monthly). 

If you teach a couples class, belong to one, or have any ideas at all for us... we'd love for you to share!

(This is a goofy game we played one Sunday ~ the husband & wife have to quickly feed one another a banana!)

Our Children's Ministry

My husband is the Children's Pastor at our church, and we are responsible for children's church every Sunday.  We actually have a children's ministry website and an adult married couples' Sunday School class as well, and I will be sharing some tidbits about our ministries here every Sunday.

We go to a somewhat-rural Baptist church, located a couple of miles on the outskirts of a town with about 10,000 folks.  Our church runs two small buses, and my Beloved drives one of them.  His bus only has a capacity of like 20-something people, so they really are *small.*

Our children's church has anywhere from 40ish to over 70 kids each week, depending on the time of year and whether we are doing some type of special promotion or anything.  I would estimate that about half of our crowd is "bus kids" and the other half is the drive-in crowd whose parents or grandparents bring them to church and attend the main service in the auditorium.

Our children's church kids are pretty well-behaved, and we really haven't had many discipline problems.  However, I wanted to share this article about children's church discipline and encourage you, if you have ever been involved in children's ministry, to scroll to the bottom of that page and share some input.