Primary Quarterly | Teacher Manual Fall Quarter 2021 (Sep-Nov): Winter Quarter 2021-2022 (Dec-Feb)

By Church Of God In Christ Publishing House

The 13-week curriculum guide is designed to provide the teacher with Biblically sound principles that are relevant to the youth they instruct. The Teacher Manual has enhanced teacher tips and a suggested outline to help make lesson preparation seamless. The Manual(s) features:
Biblical applications
Unified themes
Versatile adaptability

• Language: English
• Publisher: Church Of God In Christ Publishing House
• Release date: Nov 1, 2021

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Primary Quarterly | Teacher Manual Winter Quarter 2021-2022 (Dec-Feb)

Church Of God In Christ Publishing House

FROM THE PRESIDING BISHOP’S DESK

Greetings in the matchless name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

2021-2022 is upon us, and we optimistically, yet cautiously, look forward to this next year. The past year has been the most challenging we have ever experienced. A relentless, microscopic virus catapulted the entire world into a tailspin. Schools, malls, airports, and even our churches were forced to close as we sought alternate ways of functioning. Our day-to-day lives were upended, and many of us were faced with the unbearable losses of friends, family, and co-laborers.

How much longer will we be forced to endure, and when will this end? When will normalcy return? These are questions that have been asked but cannot be answered with any amount of certainty. As believers, it is this time that we faithfully place our uncertain futures in the hands of a loving and faithful God. A God who promised never to leave or forsake us. Now is when we must trust in the Lord with all of our hearts and not lean to our limited and finite understanding.

We must continue to dedicate ourselves to trusting God in all circumstances knowing that even when the road is rough and the journey tumultuous, we maintain unyielding confidence in the God of our salvation.

Regardless of the many hardships, we have endured, let us now focus on this next season with hope and anticipation, trusting that God will sustain us. Jeremiah 17:7-8 declares, Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water that sends out its roots by the stream and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.

Be encouraged, knowing that no matter what the season may bring, God is with us.

In His Service,

J. Drew Sheard

Presiding Bishop

Eighth in Succession

Church Of God In Christ, Inc.

FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PUBLISHING BOARD

Blessings in the name of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,

The Church, my brothers and sisters, is in a very unique position in the world today. You ask the question, how? We are called upon when a crisis happens, and we work to bring healing and understanding to those who are enduring the crisis. But, on the other hand, those who serve in ministry are often taken for granted. We are viewed as backward, stoic, and uncompromising; in many instances, we are thought of as old relics that refuse to modernize and change our stance on things the world believes is now the right thing to do. We are perplexed at the calls for us to change against what the Bible says is unholy, and we are pushed into a position where we must decide whether we’re going to stand with the world or stand with God.

The German-Dutch author Thomas a Kempis, who wrote The Imitation of Christ in the late Medieval Period, said this, At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done therefore, in our doing we must be found faithful. God has taken us through trials, storms, depths, valleys, mountain tops, and many downpours for us to turn against him. He has walked with us in our lowest points, and He carried us when we no longer had the strength to endure. He has protected us from ourselves, and, most importantly, He has laid out a path of continual redemption for each one upon this Earth.

So, we owe it to God that we not only be found faithful but that we teach and encourage others to be faithful as well. The Novelist and Christian Apologist C. S. Lewis says this about faith, I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. It is time, my brothers and sisters, in this season to endure the hard, harsh lessons, not of life, but of the trying of our faith; so that when our trials have briefly ended, we’re able to see everything from the viewpoint of Jesus Christ, and that is just enough view to keep us pushing on a little more further.

Merry Christmas and a Happy Blessed New Year.

Yours for service,

Bishop Uleses Henderson Jr, Esq.

Chairman of the Publishing Board

Church Of God In Christ, Inc.

QUARTERLY FOCUS

Dear Students,

Let me begin this quarter by saying the loyalty you are demonstrating to your Publishing House is outstanding and appreciated. Bishop Uleses Henderson and his board are constantly thinking of ways to improve the Sunday school book and financially make the purchasing of this publication as reasonable as possible.

The lessons for this quarter will emphasize a strongly needed revival in our faith in the promises of God. You will read how Abram and Sarai risked everything in their old age to move their family and all of their possessions to a new land. You will be asked to think of things God has promised in your lives that will bless you and others now as well as in generations to come. You will be asked, what are you willing to risk to follow through with God’s plan and bring Him glory, even at the risk of your own comfort? You will learn even though Abram and Sarai were well beyond the age of childbearing, Abram believed God when he was told that he would have descendants more numerous than the stars. While it is true sometimes, we have to wait on God’s fulfillment rather long, but He is faithful.

This quarter, we will also show that praise is the proper response to God’s many fulfilled promises to us. We can thank God for the big things like our salvation and the daily things He does for us, even the air we breathe.

The student will also get a glimpse of how God rewards those who are faithful to Him. God does not always bless us with fame and wonderful jobs in this life. But as Psalm 23:1 tells us, we shall not want. This means that He will bring us to a place of satisfaction, a place where we need nothing more than what we already have. God gave Joseph a happy ending because he obeyed God and forgave his brothers.

And finally, the subject of grace and works is addressed in this quarter. There are some who would like to believe that grace is a permission slip to live without rules. A true understanding of all that happened on the Cross will make Christians see that their old sinful selves are dead, and now they are free to live for Christ. Your students will better understand that their old sinful selves died with Christ on the Cross, so they can now live victorious lives with Christ living in them. This short preview of this quarter can’t begin to address all the great biblical gems you will be exposed to during the next three months.

Bishop J. L. Whitehead, Jr.

COGIC LIAISON

DEAR PRIMARY TEACHER

God made a covenant with Abraham. He promised that all the nations of the earth would be blessed through Abraham. Christ is the fulfillment of the promise.

In the first four lessons of this quarter your students will study Genesis and learn about the covenant. The lessons lead up to verses in the book of Luke where Mary was informed that she would carry the seed of Abraham’s promise and give birth to Jesus. God’s protection is the subject of the second unit of lessons in this quarter. Starting with the story of Joseph in Genesis 39-50, we see how God’s people are protected so that the promise can be manifested. As the promise is passed on from generation to generation, Abraham’s descendants carry it into Egypt. We are relieved to know that God delivers Israel and protects them through the desert, as we examine the songs of Moses and Miriam in Exodus 15.

The final unit focuses on God’s redemption. In this section, we discuss Paul’s letters to the Galatians to show how the New Testament interpretation of the law involves justification by faith, and the disciples of Christ as heirs of Abraham’s promise.

The PRIMARY student and teacher curriculum is designed to help you present Bible stories and scriptural principles to students so they will love the Lord Jesus and begin to please God through obedience to His Word. We begin with the Scripture passages chosen by the International Uniform Lesson Series. From there, we have written knowledge, attitude, and action objectives. The knowledge objectives define the biblical facts and understanding that we want the children to learn. The attitude objectives tell us the changes we desire to see in the children’s hearts. The action objectives give immediate behavioral changes that will be accomplished in their lives. Please notice how these objectives are outlined in the Quarterly Overview at the beginning of each teacher’s lesson.

We encourage you to find additional materials (CD’s, and crafts) to enhance the learning experience that will reinforce the lesson concepts through intentional and fun activities such as games, puzzles, skits, and a variety of small projects that children can take home.

We hope you enjoy this quarter, and we pray that the materials will provide a joyous teaching and learning experience for you and your students.

Sincerely,

COGIC Publishing Board

Curriculum Committee

ONE-HOUR CLASS SCHEDULE

Time frames are suggestions only. Alter the time to fit class needs.

NOTES

T4T—TIPS FOR TEACHERS

FAITHFUL FRIENDS OF GOD

With winter fast approaching, we enter a challenging time of the year for some families: the Christmas season.

As Christians, we know that Christmas is a time for us to commemorate the birth of our Savior. However, it is difficult for parents of young children to compete with the commercialism of the holiday season and the emphasis on gifts.

We can assist the parents of our children by helping the little ones shift their focus from the gifts they would like to receive to the gifts they can give God and others. By focusing on the fruit of the Spirit, we can show children how to live closer to God and become His faithful friends.

The following is a list of examples that can help the students understand the fruit of the Spirit:

• Love means caring for people and forgiving them. God loves us no matter what, and He can help us love others that way, too.

• Joy is being happy on the inside even when things aren’t going great. Only God can give us the kind of happiness that makes us joyful: we can’t be joyful on our own.

• Peace is calmness deep inside of us. Our peace comes from trusting God and believing in Him. It comes when we get to know God really well by reading the Bible, praying, and spending time at church.

• Patience is waiting with a good attitude and without complaining—whether we’re waiting to open Christmas presents, waiting to go to the park, or waiting for God to answer our prayers.

• Kindness means being kind, or nice, to people, no matter what. Being kind to people who are mean isn’t easy, but our kind deeds can help people change their mean behavior.

• Goodness means that we do good all the time, even to people who dislike us. God can depend on us to be honest, repent of our sins, and turn away from bad things.

• Faithfulness means keeping our promises to God and others by doing the things we say we will do. Being faithful also means being truthful and being real—acting the same way around everyone, not trying to show off or trying to make people like you by the way you act.

• Gentleness is like holding a brand new baby. The kind of gentleness God desires will help us to be focused and show mercy.

• Self-control means being in control of what we say and do. It also means being disciplined and knowing that we can’t do whatever we feel like doing because it’s not right and someone could get hurt.

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WINTER QUARTER 2021 – 2022

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