Let’s get real!

If you are like me, you started the year brimming with excitement and vision about being a Sunday School teacher. Maybe this year your church splurged on a snazzy new curriculum or primo art supplies. You were full of hope for the post-pandemic return to “normal” Sunday School. 

But speaking from experience, it didn’t take long before those little chairs started to hurt my grownup rear-end and I’d eaten too many of the off-brand, carb-heavy kid snacks. Now I find my mind wandering to my own stressors while the kids work on the craft with those primo art supplies. I feel my eyes constantly drifting to the clock instead of reading the notes in my snazzy new curriculum.  When can I clean up this glitter, felt, and glue? When will the parents return?

Friend, we’ve got a case of SSTF— Sunday School Teacher Fatigue. I am feeling it. You are feeling it. No judgment—This is a safe space. We know you are deeply committed to sharing the Gospel with the children in your community. But, dadgummit, it can be hard to maintain high energy Sunday after Sunday.  Dearest tired teacher, StoryMakers is here for you, too. Not with more candy, stickers, and a snazzy curriculum (although we have all that!) but with refreshment for your soul.

Join us at the Sparks conference on March 17-18 in NYC, and let’s talk about it. Let’s name where we are in our Sunday School—and personal—weariness. Together we will listen to the Gospel instead of being the ones who teach it. We will play and create instead of being the ones who clean up. Leave the kid’s snacks at home because we will be nourished by delicious food and honest conversation. We will have space to consider our own needs as seekers of Jesus.  Together we’ll be refreshed with a deeper understanding of the relief the Gospel brings to us in our daily lives, including the days we sit in those tiny cramped chairs.