the Sunday School is not as prevalent today as it once was. When Raikes died in 1811, there were approximately 400,000 children attending Sunday schools in Great Britain. When we began to de-emphasize getting together in our small groups for Bible study during the Sunday School hour on Sunday morning, our baptisms began to slide. Over 560,000 of the 4,150,000 people attending Sunday School on an average weekend will do so in a four-digit Sunday school. When compulsory education became the law, the emphasis of Sunday school shifted to Christian education exclusively. So if yours is not a four-digit Sunday school, don't despair! Children learned to read by reading the Bible. Sunday school is a children’s offering, whereas worship is an adult offering. Neil MacQueen is a Presbyterian minister, Christian educator, President of Sunday Software Inc., and leader in the Workshop Rotation Model movement for reinventing Sunday School. You will find some assessment tools in the Christian Education Files resource on those areas. For Southern Baptists, all the way back to the good old days of The Southern Baptist Sunday School Board, there was an understanding that as goes Sunday School, so goes the church. Or to look at it the other way, Worship has 1.5 times as many as are in Sunday School each week. Here are the actual percentages synthesized from the pages above.

Sunday School literature is usually designed to meet the needs of each specific age group, including singles, college/career and … Sunday School attendance is about 2/3 of worship. The Sunday school program runs concurrently with the worship service, and children are encouraged to attend the former, at the expense of the latter. From 1973 to 1988 the Sunday School ministry “plunged 34 percent, from 40.5 million in 1970 to 26.6 million in 1986” (Maxwell 1988, 63). That's almost 14 percent of the total. The percentage of Americans attending Sunday School since 1991 looks like this: As you can see, in terms of percentage, last year was the third highest year. Assessments of Sunday School could get detailed in measuring the effectiveness of the curriculum being used, the classroom space or facilities, teachers, and the like. He'd be proud of your Sunday schools, too, although you know--everyone is calling you 'Bobby Wild Goose and his ragged regiment.'"

I have also added U.S. Population Statistics along side Barna's Sunday School percentage numbers. It is a comprehensive way of learning from one another and to receive encouragement to live by God's Word. Sunday was the only day available for school for these youth. One Sunday, Thomas and Robert walked up the street to the Sunday school building.

Sunday School sets the stage for better understanding. According to Steve Parr, specialist of the Bible Study Ministries department of the Georgia Baptist Convention, Sunday School enrollment has Then I looked at a recent report of 1,566 churches who reported Sunday School enrollment and attendance for all five years 2007-2011. Yet Barna’s 2005 study which the article refers to says, and I quote: “Church reliance upon Sunday school has remained stable: 19 out of every 20 Protestant churches (95%) offer “a Sunday school in which people receive some form of planned or systematic Bible instruction in a class setting.” Thomas said, "Robert, your father would be proud of what you've done with his newspaper. Sunday School Statistics Eighty-five percent of church members who were formerly unchurched said that they are active in Sunday school or small groups. When children “age out” of Sunday school they move up to worship. Over the years he has written and published numerous articles and two books on Christian education and led numerous conferences and seminars on these subjects. Four-digit Sunday schools are important to our cooperative work, but there just aren't many of them. …