Flake

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Flakes Formula

• The Classic Approach toSunday School Growth

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Arthur Flake

• Born in Texas in 1862, Arthur Flake became a
  successful clothing merchant in Mississippi.
  Joining the Sunday School Board in 1909, he
  became head of the Sunday School Department in
  1920. He outlined five laws of Sunday School
  growth and challenged the convention to build
  churches by building the Sunday School,

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Arthur Flake

• Flake wrote ten books after he was 58 years old,
  one of which (Building a Standard Sunday School)
  has been studied by over a million people. He
  taught Southern Baptists how to build Sunday
  Schools, bringing Sunday School enrolment from
  around one million in 1910 to six million at the
  time of his death in 1952.

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Flakes Formula

• Know the possibilities
• Enlarge the organization
• Enlist and train the workers
• Provide space
• Go Get Em!

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Know the Possibilities

• Know your church
• Know your community
• Know your strengths and weaknesses
• Know your resources
• Know your prospects

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Enlarge the Organization

• Provide sufficient units to do the work
• Teaching Units Enrollment / 18
• Keep units small for
• Better Outreach
• 1 / 25 / 12 Rule
• Better Ministry
• Better Fellowship
• Better Teaching
• Better Assimilation

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Principles of Organization

• A gifted person can do a lot, but no person is
  gifted enough to guide a ministry alone.
• High-visibility leadership is still needed, but
  the role must be limited.
• Big loads are to be borne by many, but they must
  be carefully selected.
• When there is proper management
• Leaders dont wear out
• Harmony prevails
• -- Chuck Swindol, 7/3/89

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Enlist and Train the Workers

• Enlist sufficient workers to do the work
• Workers Enrollment / 10
• Use your organization!
• Enlist Properly
• Honestly
• Face to face
• Basis for commitment
• Develop a training calendar

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Provide Space

• Adapt/adjust existing space
• 40 square feet per person
• 10 square feet for each youth and adult
• 25 square feet for each preschooler and child
• Practical limit to 80 capacity
• Multiple use of space
• Building program

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Use of Space

• The church is unique in its ineffective use of
  space. First, 20 of church space is taken up by
  large assembly areas such as the sanctuary,
  chapel, and fellowship hall. And 60 of the
  church is education space while 10 is office
  space.
• That means that 90 of the space is used only 5
  of the time and 10 of the space is used 30 of
  the time.

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Go Get Em!

• WORK! WORK! WORK!
• Plan your work and work your plan
• Contacts -- stay in touch!
• Visitation
• Outreach
• Ministry
• Evangelism

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The Teacher

• Your job as a Sunday School Teacher is no
  different with respect to the members of your
  classthan the pastors job with respect to the
  total congregation.