The Prayer Book Guide to Christian Education: Revised Common Lectionary

While this one-volume guide is especially useful for Christian educators, showing them how to teach week by week according to the ethos and tradition of the Episcopal Church, it also provides a valuable and useful reference tool for all church leaders and members in connecting Christian faith to daily life.

This new guide to Christian education and formation is based on the Book of Common Prayer, the cornerstone of Anglican liturgy and theology. Keyed to the Revised Common Lectionary, all activities and lessons are structured on the seasons and lessons for Years A, B, and C. The guide stresses the major themes of baptismal theology and shows how teachers, parents, and children can live the liturgical cycle in Christian formation ministries at church and at home.

Sharon Ely Pearson is a lifelong Episcopalian with over 35 years experience in Christian formation with children, youth and adults on the congregational, diocesan, provincial and church-wide level. She is a member of Forma, an organization for Episcopal Christian formation leaders and served on its board from 2000-2003. A trained Godly Play teacher as well as a former Education for Ministry mentor for over 10 years, she currently trains and mentors acolytes and Eucharistic ministers at her home congregation - St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wilton, CT where she teaches Godly Play and is the Junior Warden. Sharon is also the co-author of "Call on Me: A Prayer Book for Young People" with Jenifer C. Gamber. As Christian Formation Specialist for Church Publishing Inc. and its educational division, Morehouse Education Resources, she has written numerous study guides to accompany books written by well-known authors including John Westerhoff's "Will Our Children Have Faith?", Samuel Wells' "What Episcopalians Believe" and many of the volumes of the Conversations with Scripture series, including "The Gospel of Mark" by Marcus Borg and "The Psalms" by William Countryman. A wife and mother of two adult children, she lives in Norwalk, Connecticut. Follow her blog, Rows of Sharon at rowsofsharon.com and Building Faith buildfaith.org.