Teach All Nations: Proclaiming the Gospel around the World
Session 1: Good News!
Session 2: The First Christians
Session 3: Teach All Nations
Session 4: The Church Grows
Session 5: The Church Comes to America
Session 6: Our Family Helps the Church Grow
Session 7: God Sends Us Out to Share the Good News
Bible Search Sheet on Greece and…
Session 1: Good News!
The purpose of this session is to present the Gospel - the life and teachings of Jesus Christ - as Good News.
Objectives: By the end of this session participants will be able to:
Retell the basic facts of the resurrection account in Matthew 28.
Identify the Gospel of Jesus Christ…
Session 2: The First Christians
The
purpose of this session is to introduce students to Jesus’ command to “teach
all nations” and to introduce the life of the first Christians.
Objectives:
By the end of this session participants will be able to . . .
Define
Pentecost as…
Session 3: Teach All Nations
The
purpose of this session is
to familiarize participants with the apostles’ travel throughout the world,
proclaiming the Good News and establishing new Christian communities.
Objectives:
By the end of this session participants will be able to . . .
1.…
Session 4: The Church Grows
The
purpose of this session
is to familiarize participants with the missionary growth of the Church throughout
Europe and Asia.
Objectives:
By the end of this session
participants will be able to . . .
Discuss
how the Good News of Jesus Christ was brought to many…
Session 5: The Church Comes to America
The
purpose of this session is to introduce the students to the origins of Orthodox
Christianity in North America through the lives of the Alaskan saints (St. Herman,
St. Innocent, St. Yakov).
Objectives:
By the end of this session participants will be able to . . .…
Session 6: Our Family Helps the Church Grow
The purpose of this
session is to show how
the Church grew from Alaska to include all of North America.
Objectives:
By the end
of this session participants will be able to . . .
1.
List immigration
and missionary efforts as different…
Session 7: God Sends Us Out to Share the Good News
The
purpose of this session is
to instill within participants a desire to commit to participating in God’s
apostolic call to “go forth and teach all nations.”
Objectives:
By the end of this session participants will be able to . . .
…
Bible Search Sheet on Antioch, and Greece
Antioch
(Acts 11:19-30)
1.
What caused people to leave Jerusalem and travel to Antioch and teach the
people there about the Good News of Jesus?
2.
Who were the first people to hear about the Gospel in Antioch? (Greeks or
…