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"The Sunday following the religious census the new enlarged organization should be put into operation. The simplest and easiest way to do this is to grade the present Sunday school and assign the teachers to the pupils present; then put into the hands of the teacher of each class a list of prospective pupils secured from the church roll and discovered in the census." |
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[45] The Sunday following the religious census the new enlarged organization should be put into operation. The simplest and easiest way to do this is to grade the present [46] Sunday school and assign the teachers to the pupils present; then put into the hands of the teacher of each class a list of prospective pupils secured from the church roll and discovered in the census.
Perfect agreement should be reached beforehand on the part of all the officers and teachers to grade the school on the age basis. In a few minutes on Sunday morning the superintendent can explain the plan of grading and put on the blackboard the number of prospective pupils for each department and each class and easily get all pupils and workers to agree to the new arrangement. If the Six Point Record System is to be installed, a new classification of the entire school should be made. All pupils not present on the Sunday when the new classification is made should be classified as new pupils. Many teachers will have small classes to begin with and perhaps some will not have any pupils at all. This is often the case, but there should be placed in each teacher's hand the names of a sufficient number of prospective pupils to make a class when they are brought into the Sunday school. For example, a new teacher has only one ten-year-old girl in her class after the Sunday school has been graded, but she holds in her hand a list of names and addresses of six other ten-year-old girls whom she is expected to reach for the Sunday school. There is only one way to do this effectively and that is to go after each one individually. |
1 Arthur Flake Building a Standard Sunday School. Nashville: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1934 . 4th ed. This book, first published in 1922, was the foundation of the Southern Baptist program leading to 75 straight years of growth using the Sunday School at an entry point for worship service growth. "Enlarge the Organization" is the fourth of five points which eventually became known as "Flake's Fivefold Formula" for church growth.