I know in my home church, they do not have Sunday School any longer.
The adults go out for breakfast instead.
Sunday School, (or) "Sabbath School" was established in Britain in 1780, to provide elementary education on Sunday, for children who were employed in factories, stores, and farms, the rest of the week. It was an outreach to poor children, to provide for their physical, spiritual, and educational needs. By 1811 there were more then 400,000 children in these Sunday schools in England. Just 20 years later (1831) England had more than a million children enrolled in Sunday school.
You can read more on the history of Sunday School when you get time.
But the question remains" Is Sunday School a program that is dying? I have always felt that Sunday School (even though it has changed from it's original purpose) has been, and can be today, an opportunity to help in the development of Biblical education, and Christian maturity. The question we need to answer is: How is our Sunday School program accomplishing this?
From the little ones, to the elderly ones. The purpose is the same. Through the Sunday School program, we can help people to come to know Jesus Christ, and what He can do for their lives, today, and forever. Sunday School will not die, unless we let it! GP
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