Let me ask you something first.
Are you looking for a way to get the children in your ministry to really connect with God?
Do you want to help parents take charge of their children’s spiritual formation?
Do you want to foster deep relationships between kids, parents, leaders, and God?
If you answered "yes" to these questions, then Rio is what you have been looking for.
Rio is a dynamic new way to engage the kids in your ministry and their parents, using both printed materials and online resources. Using the popular classroom model, Rio provides the best in spiritual formation for your leaders and kids. Launching with a curriculum for first through sixth grade, the two-year Scope and Sequence is God-centered and provides full Bible coverage within the context of God’s grand story.
Plus, Rio is being created in partnership with churches across the country. Real people doing real ministry work are behind the scenes of Rio, making sure that it addresses the actual needs you face in the classrooms of your church.
Rio is intentional in facilitating relationships on all levels: leader to learner, kid to kid, parent to child, leader to family—all in the context of our relationship to God.
Rio has been developed in partnership with real people doing real ministry in the classrooms of churches around the country.
Rio isn’t a static curriculum. Rio stays current and relevant by offering you online resources to enhance the lessons of the week. We also take your feedback to heart and work continually to provide you with the tools, training, and experiences you need to be successful.
Rio knows that kids these days don’t think about information in the same way. They look at information as interconnected, and that’s how we present the Bible lessons, as all part of the same incredible story being written by God.
Rio focuses on spiritual disciplines and enabling kids to access the Bible on their own, so they can learn how to study and relate to God’s Word beyond the classroom.
RIO is Relational – Today’s kids are "connected" like never before, but they are also very isolated. Many of their relationships are completely digital and filtered through the “anonymity” that electronic devices provide. Rio was developed to eliminate relational barriers and to foster the authentic and relevant relationships kids hunger for.
RIO is Intentional – Information is cheap to today’s kids. They can get more information than they want quickly and easily. They can know a lot about God without ever really knowing God. Rio stresses spiritual formation. Every lesson is God-focused, builds Bible study skills, and helps kids understand each Bible story in the context of God’s grand plan.
RIO is Overflow – Discipling leaders to share from the overflow of their own hearts is what Rio is all about. Rio is designed to feed and challenge everyone involved in the experience. Part of the goal of every Rio lesson is to provide a path that takes leaders and children on a journey through discovering God’s Word and hearing His voice. It’s a journey they can share.
Rio is based on the belief that our faith is a relational one, and that the best way to grow people in the faith is to enable them to deepen their relationship with God and others. We strive to engage relationships at all levels—leader to learner, kid to kid, parent to kid, parent to leader—all within the context of a relationship with God.
This focus on knowing God will produce in the children a desire to obey God—not obedience through their own power, but obedience through the power provided by the Spirit. By keeping the focus on God and responding to Him, Rio will produce a transformational faith that will reproduce itself for generations to come.
"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."
We’re offering you two free lessons from each age level that you can download and examine. These lessons will show you how we build relationships in the classroom and help the leaders and children experience God through the Scripture and God-focused activities.
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