Blessed is the Kingdom

The OCA Department of Christian Education has released ten lessons of a new comprehensive school-age curriculum, assisting parishes and Church School teachers in the formation of Orthodox Christian students. The project’s goal is to provide 32 lessons, at five grade levels: preschool, kindgergarten through second grade, third grade through fifth grade, and middle school. A high school curriculum is also being developed based closely on the original text of EOCB. The development of this school-age curriculum will now permit a parish-wide coordinated educational program.

This new school-age curriculum is based on themes presented in the popular “Essential Orthodox Christian Beliefs” released by the Departments of the Orthodox Church in America. Using the Divine Liturgy as a framework for presenting the most essential Orthodox Christian doctrines and practices, the development of this school-age curriculum will now permit a parish-wide coordinated educational program.

The series author, Kelly Potteiger, is creating this new series using the successful format of her previous occasional lessons, “All of Creation Rejoices,” and “Let Your Light So Shine,” often used for short series or Vacation Church School themes.

The lessons are created to be highly interactive using questions, activities, and crafts which are especially attractive to young students and enable learning more effectively than paper exercises.

Preschool

Kindergarten through Second grade

Third through Fifth grade