One Year Junior High Curriculum, Volume 2
An all-new year long junior high ministry curriculum, with a 79% discount and 3 bonus series!
This year long curriculum addresses the most important issues that students this age face. Issues like: influence, identity, change, choices, belonging, autonomy, etc. We also mixed in series that emphasized specific books, sections or themes of the Bible that resonate with middle schoolers, such as: Easter, Proverbs, Psalms, The Beatitudes, Christmas, etc. Our hope and prayer is that this helps your students find Jesus as they go through the middle school years.
BONUS SERIES
For a limited time, you also get these three bonus series:
- Overwhelmed - This newly updated 4-week Junior High series teaches students to allow God’s grace to overwhelm the stress and anxiety in their life.
- Awkward - This newly updated 4-week Junior High series focuses on unlikely, weird, strange, and odd people and situations that God used to accomplish awesome things. And how God does the same in our lives.
- Filters - This newly updated 4-week junior high series helps students recognize the power of their words and actions.
SCOPE & SEQUENCE
Volume 2 is currently in development. See below for release dates. New series will automatically appear in your download area.
Use the following series as outlined below or mix and match as you like. Do whatever you think works best for your group.
Use in March (Available Now)
Influence - A 4-week junior high series on influence, exploring: How God wants to be your ultimate influencer; How your friends influence you for good or bad, so choose wisely; What holds you back from allowing God to be the ultimate influencer and how to stay focused on Jesus; and How your actions, words and choices influence the people around you.
Use in April (Available Now)
Alive - In this 4-week Easter series, junior highers discover that because Jesus died and rose again: We can be forever friends with God (this new life with God starts now and carries on when we die); We are free from the power of sin in our lives; We are being changed from the inside out.
Use in May (Available April 14)
Who Am I? - A 4-week junior high series helping students explore these questions: Who am I? Who do I want to become? Who is God calling me to be? How do others see me? How does God see me and why does that matter? What makes me unique?
Use in June (Available May 15)
Proverbs - A 4-week junior high series on wisdom from the book of Proverbs.
Use in July (Available June 15)
Parables - A 4-week junior high series on what we can learn from Jesus’s parables.
Use in August (Available July 15)
Dealing with Change - A 4-week junior high series on how to deal with the many changes of the junior high years: mental, emotional, appearances, friends, and spiritual.
Use in September (Available August 15)
Choices - A 4-week junior high series on how the decisions we make shape our lives and how to involve God in those decisions.
Use in October (Available September 15)
The Search for Belonging - In their search for belonging, junior highers often have multiple friend groups: school, sports, church, other activities, etc. In these various friend groups, students figure out who they are. In this 4-week junior high series, students will discover how to integrate God into all these areas of belonging.
Use in November (Available October 15)
The Journey of Independence - As students go through the junior high years, they’re progressively given more freedom over their lives: friends, how they spend their time, values, beliefs, and so on. How do they best grapple with this newfound freedom? Then of course there is the tension of the freedom they want versus what their parents allow. They want an iPhone or to be on Instagram, but their parents say no. What’s the best way to approach this tension? These are all the issues we wrestle with in this 4-week junior high series.
Use in December (Available November 15)
Christmas - A 4-week Christmas junior high series on how the events surrounding Jesus’s birth have a profound effect on our lives today.
Use in January (Available December 15)
Best Year Ever - A 4-week New Year’s junior high series.
Use in February (Available January 15)
The Beatitudes - A 4-week junior high series on what junior highers can learn from the Beatitudes.
INFLUENCE - SAMPLE LESSON
GO HERE to download the sample lesson.
This lesson is from our Influencer series. Bottom Line: God wants to be the ultimate influencer of our lives. Bible: "And yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter. We all are formed by your hand."
HOW IS OUR JUNIOR HIGH CURRICULUM UNIQUE?
1. TRANSITION & CHANGE
The junior high years are defined by transition. They undergo drastic amounts of change in all areas of their lives: spiritual, physical, emotional, relational, etc.
In our curriculum, we do all the heavy lifting to help you address these unique changes and help students wrestle with their faith and discover what it means to love and follow Jesus.
2. ABSTRACT & CONCRETE THINKING
Concrete thinking is a rigid, black and white understanding of the world, one without nuance and paradox. Abstract thinking involves perspective, self-awareness, nuances, paradox, etc. It's realizing that life isn't black or white, but a rainbow of colors.
As a part of their natural development, junior high students are moving from concrete to abstract thinking. But it’s not a linear straightforward process. Instead, over a period of time they flow in and out of concrete and abstract thinking. And some students are further along in the journey towards abstract thinking. This is all perfectly normal, but can be tricky for a junior high leader wanting to reach all students with the message of Jesus.
When teaching 6th-8th graders, it’s important to speak to both concrete and abstract learners in the group. As students begin to see the world through the lens of abstract thinking, they see their faith in a new light. It’s your job to help guide them through the process of figuring out what it means to love and follow Jesus in a complex world that isn’t black or white.
For students who are still in the concrete thinking stage, it’s important to communicate complex and difficult spiritual truths in memorable and easy to understand ways.
That’s what makes our junior high curriculum unique. Each lesson speaks to both abstract and concrete learners. We help you land big ideas in concrete ways and help abstract learners wrestle with the nuances of life and what it means to follow Jesus.
3. INTENTIONAL
You get one year of strategic junior high curriculum. We give you the tools needed to intentionally lead a thriving junior high ministry and become a more organized, prepared, relaxed, and creative leader.
- Organized and Prepared - You have an entire year of junior high lessons at your finger tips. We do all the work upfront coming up with a well thought out and intention scope & sequence to help students become fully devoted followers of Christ.
- Relaxed - We've removed the stress of preparing each week.
- Creative - You can give 100% of your focus on making our lessons your own.
4. DISCIPLESHIP
Junior highers are questioning and wrestling with their faith. They're trying to figure out what it means to love and follow Jesus on their own, independent of their parents and in light of the many developmental changes they're experiencing.
Throughout the year, students will go on a journey to discover what it means to take ownership of their faith and become fully devoted followers of Christ.
ABOUT THE LESSONS
EVERYTHING IS DOWNLOADABLE. After purchase, you'll be directed to the download page and get an email that includes a link to download all the resources. Feel free to share the download link with volunteers. The bundle is only available as a downloadable product.
FOR JUNIOR HIGH MINISTRY. The resources included in the bundle are written to be used with students in 6th-8th grade.
LESSONS COME IN PDF & WORD format so you can edit as needed and share with volunteers.
ARTWORK includes a cover image (main artwork) for promotional purposes and blank text image so you can can create your own slides as needed.
SOCIAL MEDIA artwork is also included.
LESSONS include opening game, creative Biblical teaching and small group discussions.
ALL OUR RESOURCES ARE WRITTEN BY JUNIOR HIGH LEADERS like you who have a heart to see God move in the lives of students.
FULL SCRIPT. We don't just throw together an outline or teaching notes. We create a full lesson, giving you more than enough to customize it and make it your own. All our curriculum goes through an extensive editing process to ensure quality.