September 21
Emphasize how Sunday School is a place where we are encouraged to live holy lives.

• Use Week 2 of the Centennial Sunday School lessons – “We are a Holiness People” for youth and adults, “God Sends Help,” for elementary, and “God Shows Love” for early childhood.

• Use the Centennial sermon “The Church as the Body of Christ.”

• Add to the bulletin board started last week by having each person write what it means to be “Holiness.”

• Encourage older children to come to SS today with a timeline of important family historical events in the last 100 years (e.g. birth and death years of relatives, when families moved, when family started attending the church, etc.) Compile a list of national events in the last 100 years (e.g. presidents, wars, the Great Depression, etc.) and church events (e.g. Pilot Point, establishment of local church, when church has moved to present location, pastors of church, etc.) This week, coordinate these different timelines (or portions of each) in a hallway timeline display. Include pictures of church events and families in the church at different times in its history. Keep the timeline on display throughout the Centennial Sunday School emphasis.

• Show children’s classes “More than a Story – The First 100 Years,” the Centennial video just for kids. This resource is available in the Centennial resource kit.

• Invite your youth group to compile photos, bulletins, favorite Bible verses, dreams and aspirations, drawings, journal entries, newspaper clippings, youth group event T-shirt(s), video interviews, and a few favorite CDs into a time capsule. Be sure to label all of the photos of people with names and ages. Add anything else that will capture the personality of your youth group. When you have everything ready, put it in a plastic bin or tub, label it well, and put it somewhere in your church where it will be safe. Have the group determine a date (5 years? 10 years? 20 years?) to open it. Create a way to notify the group at that time.