Adult Sunday School Leadership Meeting

August 19, 2012Location: ParlorFBC Round Rock

If you are a department/class leader and have not picked up a packet, please see Sheri at the table for your packet of information.

Welcome

• Please feel free to sit together as a team and talk about the sheets in the packet.

• Review your class directory.• Look over your classes individual attendance.

“Think in terms of patterns.”• Look over your prospect list.

“Does this look right?”• Feel free to make notes and corrections.

We will start soon…

Class Record Review

Class Directory– You will receive a new class directory print out

each time we meet.– You are our best source of shared information.– If you know something is not correct please

make note of it and let Sheri know.

Class Record Review• Individual Attendance Summary– Looking for patterns• Every other week might tell us?• Three present, one absent might tell us?• Seek to understand the patterns

– M.I.S.S.(Missing In Sunday School)• Three absences in a row….• Six absences in a row…..• Nine absences in a row….

Class Record Review• Prospects– Represent opportunity for new relationships– Represent opportunity for growth– Need regular contact• M• T• V

Adult Sunday School HealthRather than a lot of paper and numbers lets focus on six basic statics each time we meet.• Increased enrollment in Sunday School• Increased ratio of Attendance to Enrollment• Increased number of leaders• Increased number of co-leaders• Increased number of active class leaders• Increased number of units

Adult Sunday School Health

EnrollmentCurrent Quarter – 793?Last Quarters – Health Factor (+ or -)

Adult Sunday School Health

Attendance to Enrollment RatioCurrent Quarter –Last Quarters – Health Factor (+ or -)

Adult Sunday School HealthLeaders (Directors & Teacher)Current Quarter – 47Last Quarters – Health Factor (+ or -)

Adult Sunday School Health

Class Leaders (Subs, Outreach, Sect.)Current Quarter –Last Quarters – Health Factor (+ or -)

Adult Sunday School Health

Adult UnitsCurrent Quarter – 30 (32)Last Quarters – Health Factor (+ or -)

Training Feature

Larry’s Rules of ThumbsEducation of Larry

Rules about Larry’s Rules of Thumb

• Rules of Thumb are general guideline not hard and fast rule

• Rules of Thumb always have an exception• Rules of Thumb should change if we learn a

better way• Rules of Thumb should make it easier,

smoother, or better

Larry’s Rules of Thumb• God’s Purpose, God’s plan, God’s people,

God’s stuff is the right order• Records matter because people matter. If

you know how to contact them you can minister to them more than once.

• Every leader should be training there replacement

• Every leader should have at least two subs

Education of Larry

• Help me understand…– Could the current attendance system be

improved? If so, how?– Do you feel the current prospect system is

effective for your class? Yes or No and why?

A Thought on the notebooks

Newsletter eachmonth

One Line Roll SheetEach weekSample Page

Class ProspectsInformationOn yellow paperSample Page

New MemberGuestTransferSample Page

Class DirectorySample Page

Q/A/E