Overview

Anglican Overview

The Anglican Edition of Bible-in-Life is designed to help you impart the key Anglican themes and heritage to Toddler through High School with materials that are biblically sound, easy-to-teach, and put Bible truths to work where it counts-in their everyday life.

The Anglican Edition offers many distinctives, including:

• Passing of the Torch supplement conveys the essentials themes of the Anglican faith
• Lessons are Bible-based
• God-honoring biblical values covered for Toddler through Adult
• Church/Home connection throughout Four-Step Lesson Plan
• Centrist theological stance (presents the essentials of the historical Christian faith and allows churches to incorporate denominational doctrines)
• Systematic Bible coverage in 2- to 3-year cycles (Toddler through High school), 6 to 8-year cycles (Adult)

As a basis for each lesson the Four-Step Learning Plan is designed to mirror the compelling approach that Jesus often used.

• Jesus started where His students were.
• Jesus shared life-changing truth.
• Jesus explained how His truth applied.
• Jesus called for action.

The Four-Step Learning Plan follows a similar pattern:

Step 1: Motivate
Connects your students' life experiences (work, home, school, etc.) to the Lesson Focus and gets them interested in the topic.

Step 2: Learn the Facts
Presents the Bible story and gets students into Scripture.

Step 3: Practice
Provides a variety of opportunities for students to practice the information they've just acquired.

Step 4: Apply
Encourages students to apply what they've learned to their everyday experiences.

Anglican Supplement

The online Anglican supplement Passing the Torch provides tools for teacher, student, and family growth in the Anglican tradition. Each supplement is fully reproducible and comes at no extra charge to the curriculum. Included are the:

• A short teaching on the quarter's Anglican theme,
• Classroom activities for Toddler through High School
• Coming Up on the Church Calendar relates the liturgical season to the Gospel.
• Passing the Torch Family Edition provides creative strategies for home teaching, devotions, and family activities.

Ideas for Using the Anglican Supplement

Here are some ways to get the most out of this resource:

• At the beginning of each quarter, meet with your leaders. Go over Passing the Torch together and review Coming Up on the Church Calendar.
• Use your quarterly meetings to plan out the use of the classroom activities. This is a good time to think about supplies or other advanced preparation (like asking clergy to visit) and to "tweak" the ideas for your setting.
• Include the Passing the Torch Family Edition with your regular mailings to your families, and encourage your parents and students to engage in the activities provided.