Set aside a block of time for you to concentrate on your graduating seniors, and use this material as the foundation of your curriculum. Plan on promoting this series heavily to your Grads; many kids are not motivated by the subject matter, but if you communicate this series as an “exclusive” opportunity for a select group, it will have more appeal. You can use this material in at least three settings:
If your church has an extremely organized Sunday School, you will want to get the Superintendent’s permission to use this as a special curriculum supplement for graduating Seniors. It might also be necessary for you to get approval for forming a three-week class of exclusively seniors. Start the series no later than six weeks before graduation.
If your midweek ministry program can handle it, create a series sometime before graduation that honors seniors. Using this material as a guide, adapt it to fit the other grades too. By honoring the seniors in this way, you are giving the younger students a reason to look forward to becoming seniors themselves.
Many churches and ministries have a Graduation Banquet at the end of the school year. This material can be adapted to become the theme of your banquet or other single event for your Grads. The benefit of having the ConGRADulations CD to give as a gift and continuing reminder of the ministry you have had with the Seniors makes using this material all the more attractive.
It is possible to do a “Mix-N-Match” with these Grad’s-Only events. You may want to use a couple of the sessions as supplemental Sunday School curriculum for a couple of weeks, followed by a Single-Event for Grads. Or, use one or two of the sessions in the Midweek Program, have an Event for Grads using one of the sessions, and finish with an Overnighter. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination, so get creative!