Good Sunday School curriculum exists. It is well written, carefully graded and produced by people who know what they are doing. It is also written for churches in countries with printers, budgets and bookshops, and priced accordingly.
A volunteer teacher in a Pakistani village cannot buy it. If somebody bought it for her, it would arrive in English, illustrated with children who look nothing like the ones in front of her, referring to seasons and objects her class has never seen. The gap is not only money.
The teachers who need help most can pay least
This is the plain arithmetic of children’s ministry in Pakistan. The churches with the fewest resources have the most children and the least trained teachers. Any curriculum with a price on it reaches the churches that were managing anyway and misses the ones that were not.
So this material is free. Not free as a trial, or free for the first few lessons, or free if you register. Free.
What free means here
Anyone may read, print, photocopy, retype, translate and teach these lessons. You do not need permission and you do not need to tell us. If it is useful to hand a printed lesson to a teacher who has no phone, print it. If it is useful to translate a lesson into Punjabi or Sindhi for your own class, translate it.
The only thing asked in return is that it is never sold to a teacher who cannot afford it.
Why it is on web pages and not only in a file
A curriculum locked in a single large file helps the teachers who already have a laptop and a printer. Most teachers have neither. What they do have is a phone. Publishing every lesson as its own page means a teacher can open Saturday’s lesson on a phone with very little data, in a room with no electricity, and teach from it directly.
It also means a teacher anywhere in the world searching for a Bible lesson on the Good Shepherd can find one written for children who speak Urdu.
This is how the whole ministry has worked
By God’s grace, more than 150,000 Urdu Bibles have been given away since 2009, more than 50,000 of them illustrated editions for children in Christian schools and Sunday Schools. Maranatha Christian High School teaches more than 500 children without charging tuition. Giving the curriculum away is not a new policy. It is the same policy.
Start with the free lesson library, or read how to partner with a Sunday School.
