We use One Room Sunday School from Abingdon Press, and the teachers and children love it. The curriculum allows us to teach children from kindergarten to middle school in a single classroom. For quite a while, we used web resources and the Rotation Workshop model. The idea was that we could conserve money through less expensive lesson plans, and certainly there was a lot out there. But we were over-working our teachers for only a few children and were ill prepared to handle children coming in ages that were not anticipated. We also needed more teachers scheduled than we could recruit.
One Room Sunday School has lesson plans for everyone and is manageable by single prepared teacher. We get great participation form our high school and college aged young people, and this is an areas where they love to help. Frequently, we have only two young children in the Sunday School and two in the nursery. That is the bad news, but the good news is that they are almost always here. Their parents are wonderfully supportive and faithful in attendance, and they are a reason for hope. At the very least, when we have visitors they find that they are not alone.
