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Action Pack
Age Levels
Bookmark Stories
BQ
Color
Interpreter
Leader Kit
Multiple Intelligences
Permanent
Push It!
Quarterly
Spinners
Story Card
Tips |
Adult
Annual
BookMarks
CD
Four Years
Leader helps
Leaflets
Other Choices
"Prepare",
"Tell", "Connect", "Celebrate"
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QuestLinks
"Story behind the Story"
The overall Bible Story
Writing
Team |
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Action
Pack
Ages 3–4, Grades K–1, Grades 2–3, and Multi-Age
(K–8) have a package of material to be used with each session,
including color visuals and figures, games, craft instructions,
and other resources.
Adult
The only quarterly age level that offers a combined leader/learner
resource.
Age Levels
Toddlers and Twos, Ages 3–4, Grades K–1, Grades 2–3,
Grades 4–6, Grades 6–8, Multi-Age (K–8), Older
Youth, Young Adult, and Adult.
Annual
The older youth, BookMarks, and young adult, Push It!,
resources are published annually. |
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Bookmark
Stories
The Bible stories featured in all age levels marked with a .
There are 3–4 bookmark stories each quarter.
Bookmarks
A Bible study curriculum for Older Youth
in grades 9–12. Each volume contains one unit suitable for
either Advent/Christmas or lent/Easter.
BQ
The quarterly take-home devotional book for Grades 6–8. |
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CD
The Leader’s Guide for Ages 3–4, Grades K–1, Grades
2–3, Grades 4–6, and Multi-Age (K–8) include a
CD that provides music for listening, drama, readings, sounds, etc.,
that are incorporated into each session.
Color
Each age level can be identified by a different color on the cover:
Toddlers and Two's, Magenta; Ages 3–4, Red; Grades K–1,
Orange; Grades 2–3, Yellow; Grades 4–6, Green; Grades
6–8, Blue; Multi-Age (K–8), Purple; Older Youth, Teal;
Young Adult, Bright Green; Adult, Navy. |
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Four
Years
Bible Quest is planned as a four-year cycle
with a different organizing theme for each year: Incarnation, Covenant,
Justice, Salvation. |
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Interpreter
Each learner is honored as an interpreter. One’s ability to
engage the Bible story is not dependent on one’s ability to
read the text in any traditional understanding of literacy or reading.
One engages the story through a variety of experiences and methods.
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Leader
Helps
Each Leader’s Guide provides detailed, easy to use, session-by-session
plans plus Bible background, tips and articles.
Leader Kit
A resource comprised of articles, workshop models, and a video to
use for leader training in the congregation.
Leaflets
Quarterly take-home sheets for Multi-Age (K–8). |
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Multiple
Intelligences
For all age levels, each quarter’s resources include activities
that use all eight intelligences: bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal,
interpersonal, linguistic, logical/mathematical, musical, spatial,
and naturalist. |
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Other
Choices
In the Leaders Guide, optional activities are marked by a circled
letter. The items for these activies will be listed under the "You
May Need" list at the beginning of each session. |
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Permanent
The Toddlers and Twos resource, based on the Bookmark Stories
for the entire four-year cycle, is published one time. It is not
quarterly nor annual.
"Prepare", "Tell",
"Connect", "Celebrate"
The four-part process for each session. In the adult resource, the
four-part process is Enter, Hear, Connect, Celebrate.
Push It!
This annual young adult resource is based on the Bookmark Stories
for each year. Can be used for individual or group study. |
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Icon
This icon indates that the story is a Bookmark Story. Can be found
at the beginning of each session.
Quarterly
The following age levels will have new resources every quarter:
Ages 3–4, Grades K–1, Grades 2–3, Grades 4–6,
Grades 6–8, Multi-Age (K–8), Adult. (Fall, Winter, Spring,
Summer.)
QuestLinks
The quarterly clergy/worship resource that connects the congregation,
particularly worship, with what is happening in church school. |
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Spinners
The quarterly magazine for Grades 4–6.
Story Behind the Story
The Bible background for leaders provided in each session plan.
The Story behind the Story for the Bookmark Stories will be the
same in all Leader’s Guides.
Story Card
The learner’s resource for Ages 3–4 (5.5” x 8.5”),
Grades K–1 (11” x 8.5”) and Grades 2–3 (8.5”
x 11”). |
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Writing
Team
A team of four writers, each taking thirteen of the fifty-two sessions,
writes each age level. |
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