Take a few ideas for a small meeting or take several for a larger event.
These are suggestions for you to build upon. Be creative...Julia


Head Of The Class
Women's Ministry Theme

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This theme revolves around getting back to the basics in our Christian lives.

Alternative Theme Titles

• Back To School
• Study To Show Thyself Approved
• Get On The Bus!
• God's Teaching Me Everyday
• A Well Taught Woman In Christ
• Teach Me Thy Ways
• What To Know
• Back To The Book
• Learning At The Feet of Jesus
  
  Theme Verse Suggestions
  
• "Study to show thyself approved unto God..."    2 Timothy 2:15
  
• "To know wisdom and instruction..."    Proverbs 1:2a
  
  Devotional
  
• Back To School For The Christian
• What To Know
• Devotionals by Julia
  
  Color Scheme
  
• Primary Colors (Basic Crayon Colors)
  
  General Decorations
  
• Decorate using school supplies.
• Apples, backpacks, crayons, scissors, containers of pencils, glue bottles, etc.
• Bulletin boards, charts, large calendar, school signs.
• See your local party store for school cut outs such as school buses, apples, etc.
• Check your Dollar Tree stores as they now carry a lot of teacher supplies.
  
  For The Tables
  
• Baskets of Crayons and school supplies.
• Apples
• Use desk name plates.
• Word Strips with verses printed on them.
  
  Games and Ice-breakers:
  
• Icebreakers Index
  
  Music
  
• Sing some songs that you sang in grade school such as "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain", "Oh, Susannah", etc.
• Sing some chorus' such as "The B-I-B-L-E" and "The Crayon Box Song"
  
  Favors
  
• Any school supply such as pens, ruler, etc. with your theme or verse attached.
• Small pretty spiral notebooks for taking notes. Sometimes you can get these rather inexpensively and they make some really sweet feminine ones nowadays.
• Apples
• Favor Index.
  
  Just For Fun
  
• Have time slots for different school subjects and allow so many minutes for each. You could make stations or areas in which to do each. Jan Brett has some printable school "Area" signs on her website.
  • Orientation - Greet everyone and let them know that you'll being going "Back to School" for the night. Give any instructions or announcements.
  • Spelling - Give a Spelling Pop Quiz or have a game time with a Spelling Bee and use hard to spell words or names from the bible such as Nebuchadnezzar, Bildad the Shuhite, Malachi etc.
  • Art - Have a craft project.
  • Music - Have someone teach a new chorus. Have some hymn histories of various hymns typed out for your ladies to take home.
  • Math - Give a Math Pop Quiz. Have a game time with a quiz of biblical number questions.
  • Science - Share something special or something unique about one of God's creations.
  • Geography - Have a Missionary display featuring the missionaries that your church supports. Use maps, a globe, missionary cards, etc. Have someone read a few highlights from recent missionary letters.
  • Reading - Have your devotional time. Make sure you "read" from your bible.
• Give out "homework". Bible verses to memorize, chapter to read, someone specific to pray for, etc.
• Make a Classroom Helper Chart: Fill in names from your group with a job for the evening such as serving coffee, passing out handouts, taking attendance, refreshment duty, etc.
• Have everyone bring in their high school or college yearbooks or old school photos for a sharing time.
• Conversation Starter - Ask your ladies to share about a specific teacher that impacted them in some way.
  
  Doorprizes
  
• Backpack
• Christian Books
• Study Bible
• Pen/Pencil Set
• Notebook/Journal
• Pocket Calendar
• Doorprize page
  
  Skits
  
• CLM Skit Links
  
  Food Suggestions
  
• For a snack serve Milk and cookies:)
• Sack Lunches

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