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8 unusual facts about Sunday School


Arlecdon

The village also has a 19th-century primary school and an old Sunday school.

Blackwater, Cornwall

The Sunday School building, built with the funding and support of John Passmore Edwards was completed in 1893 and dedicated to Edward's late uncle, a St Day Sunday school superintendent and teacher.

Burton, Dorset

His Sunday school was attended by upwards of four hundred children.

Cambusbarron

Evangelist and writer Henry Drummond (1851–1897), although born in Stirling, lived for much of his early life in Cambusbarron, and founded a Sunday school in the village.

Dendron, Cumbria

The schoolroom still stands today as a meeting room and Sunday school, but was replaced in the 1870s by another, larger building some distance south of the village in which were educated most of the children from the villages of Dendron, Leece and Gleaston.

Deweyville, Utah

John C. Dewey directed many community activities, including the construction of a school house in 1869 and a Sunday school in 1872.

Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?

Frightened into piety by Father Maxi's fire-and-brimstone sermon, Stan, Cartman, and Kenny begin to attend Sunday school classes with a nun named Sister Anne, who teaches them about Communion and confession.

Homer Martin Adkins

Adkins sought to build a voting base based on his background as a Methodist Sunday school teacher and church employee.


Derek A. Cuthbert

From 1988 until 1991, Cuthbert served as a counselor to Robert L. Simpson, and then Hugh W. Pinnock in the General Presidency of the church's Sunday School.

First Baptist Church of Ossining

The church holds adult Sunday school and junior church for children every Sunday, with Communion held on the first Sunday of every month.

Georgian era

Philanthropists and writers such as Hannah More, Thomas Coram, Robert Raikes and Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, began to address the social ills of the day, and saw the founding of hospitals, Sunday schools and orphanages.

Goo Kim Fui

As an honored representative of the Chinese Imperial Government for many years, as an active and busy merchant, a faithful and devoted church deacon, chief mover in Y.M.C.A. work, teacher in the Sunday School and Bible instructor, evangelist and teacher under the Hawaiian Board, he will long be remembered.

Gospel Advocate

The Gospel Advocate also publishes Sunday School materials and operates Christian bookstores in Nashville and Mesquite, Texas.

Henry Christopher McCook

As a minister in Clinton, Illinois, St. Louis, and Steubenville, Ohio, McCook became known for his compassion and intellect, and for his leadership in the movement to create Sunday Schools.

John Christian Keener

He was Superintendent of a Sunday school in Wesley chapel charge for two years, and in this work he felt the divine call to preach.

Joseph Nicholds

Second (Copyright) Edition of the Monmouthshire Melodist and Supplement: A Work containing original Pieces, suitable for Chapel and Sunday School Anniversaries; Also, a Variety of Chants, Tunes, &c. by Various Authors, Especially adapted for Congregational Use; The whole Edited and Arranged for the Organ, Pianoforte, &c., by the late Joseph Nicholds. (Birmingham: George Sage, and London: John Shepherd, supplement published Bristol: Henry Keeler, c.1869).

Mechanicsburg Baptist Church

It was further strengthened by donations from two members: one gave his home for use as a parsonage, and the other endowed the church's Sunday school.

Woman's Christian Temperance Union

She started the Bethesda Day Nursery for working mothers, two kindergarten schools, the Anchorage Mission for erring girls, two dispensaries, two industrial schools, an employment bureau, Sunday schools, and temperance reading rooms.


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American Missionary Fellowship

In addition to its primary work of starting Sunday schools in rural communities, the Sunday and Adult School Union became known for its publications and its ticket reward system for Sunday school students who memorized Scripture.

Bernard Meltzer

Talk radio legend Bruce Williams said Meltzer was his inspiration to get into talk radio, after listening to him for years sitting in the car while his daughters attended Sunday School.

Edward Kirk Warren

Warren was the president of the International Sunday School Association of North America and oversaw the World's Sunday School Convention in 1904 in Jerusalem, Israel.

Elmore Harris

This group was led by Elmore Harris, and included the well-known Casimir Gzowski Jr. (son of the builder of the Grand Trunk Railway and grandfather of broadcaster Peter Gzowski), Robert Kilgour of the Kilgour Brothers (a manufacturer of paper bags and paper boxes), John Drysdale Nasmith (a baker) and Samuel J. Moore of the business forms fame (a Sunday school leader at Dovercourt Road Baptist Church).

Elsie Dinsmore

Approximately 31 minutes into the 1956 movie The Bad Seed (in a scene taking place one day after the mysterious drowning of her classmate), Rhoda Penmark, played by Patty McCormack, proudly announces that she will be reading her new book, Elsie Dinsmore, which she has won at Sunday School.

Glasgow North East by-election, 2009

The Conservative Party selected Ruth Davidson, a journalist and broadcaster, as well as a Territorial Army volunteer and Sunday school teacher.

Hebron Church, Long Ashton

The Church arose out of a Sunday School and youth club by Mr Dyer, who cycled weekly from Keynsham to run the clubs.

Heolyfelin, Aberdare

The origins of the church at Heolyfelin date back to the 1840s, when prayer meetings and a Sunday school were established in the area that later became known as Trecynon.

Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington, D.C.

IFFP meets most Sundays during the school year at Albert Einstein High School in Kensington, Maryland, providing dual-faith religious education for over 150 children through a Sunday School for pre-school through eighth grade, a "Coming of Age" program for 7th and 8th graders, and a teen group.

Jack Hyles

In 1969, Elmer Towns wrote a book called The Ten Largest Sunday Schools and What Makes Them Grow which analyzed First Baptist's Sunday School.

Monteagle Sunday School Assembly

The MSSA was originally founded in 1882 by the Sunday School Convention of Tennessee, who at the time sought to establish a "Sunday School Congress" in Tennessee; at the time, a number of states had these congresses, often called Assemblies, all of them modelled after the Chautauqua Institution in New York, which is regarded as the first of these Assemblies.

Pyper

George D. Pyper (1860–1943), the fifth general superintendent of the Sunday School of The LDS Church)

Russell Conwell

On June 28, 1886, A nearby house at the corner of Broad and Berks streets, referred to as The Temple because the property owner did not want the house to be called a church until the mortgage was fully paid, was investigated for purchase by the Wiatt Mite Society, which was organized for the purpose of taking the 57 cents and enlarging on them sufficiently to buy the property for the Primary Department of the Sunday school.

Sammy Drake

When his playing career ended, Samuel became an government employee for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and a Sunday school teacher for his brother's church.

Samuel Austin Allibone

He was book editor and corresponding secretary of the American Sunday School Union from 1867 until 1873, and from 1877 until 1879, when he became librarian of the Lenox Library, resigning in 1888.

Samuel J. Moore

He played an important role in the development of the YMCA in Canada and was a major supporter of the Canadian Baptist Church being a member of Dovercourt Road Baptist Church in Toronto and Sunday school leader.

The Shack Neighborhood House

Mary Behner, a 1928 College of Wooster graduate, was first given an abandoned schoolhouse in Stumptown and started a Sunday School and recreation there in November 1928.

Thomas Clay

Thomas Clay joined Leicester Fosse in April 1911 and made his first appearance for the team against Bradford Park Avenue F.C. on November 11 that year, having previously made a name for himself for local side Belvoir Sunday School Juniors.

United Christian Church of Dubai

The church was then meeting on Sundays in the Jumeirah American School (now the American School of Dubai), and Sunday School was held there in the afternoons.