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Sabbath Rest
Sabbath Rest
Curriculum
4 Sections
28 Lessons
4 Weeks
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Section 1: What Is Sabbath?
6
1.1
Prepare – Exodus 20:8-11
1.2
How Rest Became an Area of Focus, Nathan Stucky – Video and Discussion Outline
5 Minutes
1.3
Gritty Rest, David Rahn – Video and Discussion Outline
3 Minutes
1.4
Sabbath Rest, Ebonie David – Video and Discussion Outline
3 Minutes
1.5
Questions for Reflection
1.6
Additional Resources
Section 2: Cultivating Sabbath
10
2.1
Prepare – John 10:10
2.2
Rest Starts with the Youth Workers, Nathan Stucky – Video and Discussion Outline
5 Minutes
2.3
Sabbath-Keeping and Attentiveness, David Rahn – Video and Discussion Outline
4 Minutes
2.4
Cultivating Habits for Sabbath-Keeping, David Rahn – Video and Discussion Outline
3 Minutes
2.5
Time Bandits, Ebonie Davis – Video and Discussion Outline
3 Minutes
2.6
Technology and Rest, Nathan Stucky – Video and Discussion Outline
5 Minutes
2.7
Mind, Body, Spirit Resilience, Jannah Scott – Video and Discussion Outline
7 Minutes
2.8
How to Build Happiness into Youth Programming, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
5 Minutes
2.9
Questions for Reflection
2.10
Additional Resources
Section 3: The Benefits of Rest and Sabbath-Keeping
7
3.1
Prepare – Psalm 46:10
3.2
Youth and Sleep, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
3 Minutes
3.3
Rest for the Underprivileged, Nathan Stucky – Video and Discussion Outline
5 Minutes
3.4
Rest as Resistance, Nathan Stucky – Video and Discussion Outline
5 Minutes
3.5
Stress Gets a Bad Rap, Szu-Hui Lee – Video and Discussion Outline
5 Minutes
3.6
Questions for Reflection
3.7
Additional Resources
Section 4: Communal Sabbath
5
4.1
Prepare – Leviticus 25:1-12
4.2
Sabbath as Communal, Not Individual, Nathan Stucky – Video and Discussion Outline
7 Minutes
4.3
What Is Preventing Our Community From Being Able to Rest?, Nathan Stucky – Video and Discussion Outline
4 Minutes
4.4
Questions for Reflection
4.5
Additional Resources
Mind, Body, Spirit Resilience, Jannah Scott – Video and Discussion Outline
Questions for Discussion:
Is the concept that sleeping and eating well affects one’s creativity a new idea for you? What might that mean for our young people?
What does it mean that Elijah experienced depression and exhaustion, as a result of not tending to himself physically? How does God respond?
How do we encourage our young people to “seek that balance,” as Scott encourages? How do we model this ourselves?
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