Problem with Orange is if you have a lot of kids coming from outside your church (which you should want in your midweek program) you end up getting a lot of yellow and no red with those kids. Very true on the supply heavy part, and little focus on the Gospel. They’ve even gone as far as to rewrite parts of Bible stories to fit the theme of the week. Lots of teaching kids how to be good Christians without introducing them to Christ. Gospel project goes a bit too far in the other direction. Our pre-k didn’t like it much. It went over their heads. I did like how they link things back to Jesus and they did like the big posters. Definitely needs and update in materials and videos. Never used Grow or Go Might have to check that out.
Myself and my team along with about 60 other children’s ministry lay leaders recently did a very extensive curriculum evaluation of the most popular products on the market. If anyone is interested in this, let me know and I’d love to send it to you to help in your decision making for your ministry.
Hey Christian, thanks for the comment! I would love to see your evaluation! The more we can equip kids min leaders, the better! You can send it to lauren@kidsministrycircle.com!
We're using children's Sunday School place and we like it, $39al year and it's simple and easy to teach, we just have to look for the videos and songs but it's not bad.
We've moved from Grow, loved some of their stuff, but the editing of lessons and supplies and prep just felt like too much. We've been using Life Church's free resources right now and I'm amazed at how low the prep is with still a high retention with the kiddos! It's great! Thanks for this video! Super helpful!
This is good. My issue currently is jumping from new to old Easter then Moses. There is no continuity. Also I want to teach core beliefs not just behavior. This was interesting
I would look at Hyfi from Lifeway. It was not featured in this video since it is a newer curriculum but they do an excellent job creating media content that shows all kids of all ethnicities!
Problem with Orange is if you have a lot of kids coming from outside your church (which you should want in your midweek program) you end up getting a lot of yellow and no red with those kids. Very true on the supply heavy part, and little focus on the Gospel.
They’ve even gone as far as to rewrite parts of Bible stories to fit the theme of the week. Lots of teaching kids how to be good Christians without introducing them to Christ.
Gospel project goes a bit too far in the other direction. Our pre-k didn’t like it much. It went over their heads. I did like how they link things back to Jesus and they did like the big posters. Definitely needs and update in materials and videos.
Never used Grow or Go Might have to check that out.
Myself and my team along with about 60 other children’s ministry lay leaders recently did a very extensive curriculum evaluation of the most popular products on the market. If anyone is interested in this, let me know and I’d love to send it to you to help in your decision making for your ministry.
Hey Christian, thanks for the comment! I would love to see your evaluation! The more we can equip kids min leaders, the better! You can send it to lauren@kidsministrycircle.com!
Hey Christian, I would love that list also, please. Thx!
me three.
Id loved to see it!
Hey Christian! Would love to see the evaluation. Thanks for being willing to share!
We're using children's Sunday School place and we like it, $39al year and it's simple and easy to teach, we just have to look for the videos and songs but it's not bad.
Thank you for your presentation. Help me choose a suitable Sunday School Curriculum for my church please. Ps Jonathan K.
We've moved from Grow, loved some of their stuff, but the editing of lessons and supplies and prep just felt like too much. We've been using Life Church's free resources right now and I'm amazed at how low the prep is with still a high retention with the kiddos! It's great!
Thanks for this video! Super helpful!
Yes I was suggested this website but I'm finding hard to search the resources and put it together
This was very helpful! Thank you for your detailed reviews.
My church uses Answers in Genesis. Any thoughts on that one?
Great info! Thank you for all of the great details and research. Very helpful!
Thank you for the information. Ready to watch more videos and figure out what will work for our SMALL youth group starting in 2023.
Glad it was helpful!
This is so well done. Spot on content. Thanks!
Really helpful! Will definately check them out with time.
Alex from Kenya..:)
This is good. My issue currently is jumping from new to old Easter then Moses. There is no continuity. Also I want to teach core beliefs not just behavior. This was interesting
Thank you. So helpful!
Thanks for such an amazing review!
Another well-loved curriculum that has come to my attention is High Voltage Kids Curriculum (highvoltagekids.com)
Hey there! I’m not sure if I missed it, but what curriculum does Storyline use?
Hi! We don’t specifically talk about Storyline in this video, but they use Gospel Project!
Do any of these curriculums pay attention to ethnic diversity?
I would look at Hyfi from Lifeway. It was not featured in this video since it is a newer curriculum but they do an excellent job creating media content that shows all kids of all ethnicities!
@@kidsministrycircle - thank you!
Orange and Grow both do a good job with diversity! :)