A History of Outreach Sunday Schools

This brief study looks back over the abundant and godly tradition of outreach Sunday Schools. It reaches back into Israelite conventions and Old Testament commands and prototypes that embrace children, and traces Gospel outreach to the young right through the Reformation, the Great Awakening, the Victorian golden age of Sunday Schooling and up to the present day. It looks at when and why decline took place, and asks the question, "Should the contemporary abandonment of outreach Sunday Schools be reversed?"

Andrew Owen was a Sunday School teacher and department leader at the Metropolitan Tabernacle (Baptist Church) in Central London for over 20 years. He is a Communication Support Worker, working in London colleges and universities. He is responsible for the large Deaf Fellowship at the Metropolitan Tabernacle (Baptist Church) in central London and trains both spoken and sign language interpreters.

Contents:

1. The Old Testament Teachers
2. The New Testament to the Reformation
3. The Golden Sunday School Age
4. Across the Atlantic to America
5. State Schools from Sunday Schools
6. The 20th Century Dawns and Decline
7. The 21st Century and the Future
Appendix: Excuses I Have Heard