What's in a Name?

Fans of soccer (called football outside the USA) know that when a player commits a serious infraction of the rules, such as a flagrant foul, the referee will hold up a red card to indicate that the player is expelled from the game. Go to YouTube and type in "red card" for some visual examples.

Kids at risk around the world need referees like us to be a voice for them, to call a halt to their unacceptable situations. So in effect we are stepping in to issue a red card.

Together, let's hold up the red card against the oppression of children and begin to offer help and hope to children at risk.

Program Description

Red Card is an 8-week family Sunday school curriculum. Our goal is to raise awareness of children at risk, provide a biblical view of God's heart for these children, challenge believers to pray for them, and offer practical steps for involvement. The material is designed to provide eight one-hour lessons for use in churches.

The unique feature of the curriculum is our target audience...families. We want to encourage and empower children to become advocates for the largest unreached group in the world - their own peers. Lessons will allow parents and children (4th grade and up) to learn, process, pray, and take practical steps together.

Each one-hour Sunday school lesson is interactive and uses hands-on experiences that allow participants to have impact learning, followed by family activities during the week.

Lessons will include:

• An introductory overview, a video clip, a simulation activity, a family processing time, and prayer.
• A definition of children at risk and the provision of a biblical viewpoint. (Lesson 1)
• An exploration of poverty, orphans, street kids, child soldiers, child laborers, and HIV/AIDS.
  (Lessons 2-7)
• The final lesson will introduce opportunities for involvement.

The curriculum will be produced in a convenient 2-disc CD/DVD set plus student materials:

• The DVD will contain seven 5- to 8-minute video segments. Wherever possible, we will provide footage of children telling their own stories.
• The CD will include complete, printable leader directions for the large-group teaching, simulations, processing segments, opportunities for involvement, and prayer. It will also include printable teacher's background notes, lesson handouts, posters of children at risk, and templates for promotional posters, fliers, and bulletin inserts, and more.
• The kit will include 50 Pathfinder workbook/journals, and prayer cards for each participant.

Although the material is being designed for use in churches, it may also be used in house churches and to train short-term teams going to minister to children at risk.