Sharing and Creating Quality Adult Ed Resources!

One of the things we wrestle with is finding high quality adult education resources that are theologically sound, context appropriate, engaging, and affordable. This is particularly hard for smaller and rural churches that may not have a large adult ed budget or staff to search for and screen resources for bible studies, adult Sunday School classes, and other adult ed opportunities. First Presbyterian Church of Hastings in Nebraska was wrestling with this, so we decided to create our own adult ed resources. We are blessed with a Millennial pastor, a Gen X pastor, and a retired religion professor who serves as our “scholar in residence.” None of us knew too much about technology, but all three of us were willing to learn. Over the course of the last five years, we have generated more than 400 digital video resources that include bible studies, classes on a variety of topics, book studies, and more.
Our workshop aims to equip churches to create their own adult education resources while also sharing free resources that are already available. In our workshop we will teach Christian educators how to record podcasts and adult education classes. We will include recommendations on equipment and suggestions on how to effectively record and share these resources. In addition, we created a website called “Abundant Harvest” www.midwestministryhub.org to make the resources that we have created at FPC Hastings accessible and searchable. We hope to make these resources available for free to any church that is looking for a source of high quality, theologically sound, context appropriate adult education resources.