Goals

• Teach children about God through the Bible.
• Utilize crafts, related activities, discussions, and stories to help make the Bible lessons more memorable.
• Encourage children to pray.
• Promote enjoyment of reading the Bible.
• Teach children to look up Bible passages and memorize verses.
• Help children know Jesus as their personal savior.
• Stress the importance of growing as Christian children.
• Worship God together.

Classes

The following Sunday School classes are available.

• Toddlers (2 - 3 year olds)
• Pre-K - 1st Grades (4, 5, & 6 year olds)
• Elementary (2nd - 5th grades)
• Middle School (6th - 8th grades)
• High School (9th - 12th grades)

Children's Worship Service
Children's worship service is held once every two months. During the service, children praise God with worship songs, prayers, and scripture reading. Bible lessons are also taught through mini sermons, skits, and crafts.

Youth Group

• For middle and high school students, this group meets every other Saturday evenings for praise time, lesson, and activities.
• Coordinators: Jen Chon, Mark Cheng
  Teachers
  Each class has multiple teachers who rotate as need and instruction dictates, allowing the teachers to attend adult worship service while maintaining continuity with their respective Sunday School classes.

Current teachers (*coordinators)

• Toddlers: Nancy Laboy*, Jane Lee Seo, Jing Huang, Linda Yoon
• Pre-K - 1st Grade: Christina Hwang, Jeannie Hwang, Jennifer Yoon, Wei-Jing Zhu*
• Elementary: Sunny Ahn, Jeehyung Kim*, Sophie Song
• Middle School: Raimund Strauck, MinJung Kim, Christine An*
• High School: Chae An*, Andrew Kim, Rebecca McAteer

Ministry Team leaders - Christine An, Jennifer Yoon

Sunday School Resources

Christian Stories: http://www.inspirationalarchive.com/

Calvary Chapel Teaching Resources: http://www3.calvarychapel.com/children/site/curriculum.htm

Group Publishing: http://www.grouppublishing.com/

Youth Group Resources

Simply Youth Ministry (HighSchool): http://www.simplyyouthminitry.com/

Simply Junior High (Jr High): http://www.simplyjuniorhigh.com/

Group Publishing's link to many youth group resources: http://www.youthministry.com/links/res_org.asp

Youth Specialties: http://www.youthspecialties.com/

Pastor Edward's audio and written comments on Sunday School and launching NHF youth group

The Heart of a Child 

A short article by Pastor Edward on teaching children of New Hope..."So care for, with tenderness and wisdom, this thing that God has put in your hands. It is a gift, precious, fragile, miraculous: the heart of a child. "

Pastor Edward's Audio Comments on Sunday School

"My hope is that they (our children) come to saving knowledge of God in Christ Jesus while they are here (with us at NewHope), but the foundations that we can give them maybe reaped later on and we'll continue to build that in them in faith."
"They may not be able to recall all of the teachings but they are in their hearts and God is using them."

Pastor Edward's Audio Comments on Launching NHF Youth Group