Find the right curriculum for your group.
General Curriculum
2024-2025 Curriculum Offerings from the PC(USA) - A digital catalog of current curriculum available from the PC(USA) Store
Building Faith’s Favorite FREE Christian Formation Resources from Building Faith
Top Picks for Youth Ministry Curriculum from Building Faith (an ecumenical list that includes some Presbyterian and some other mainline protestant publications)
Quicksheet on Choosing Youth Sunday School Curriculum from PC(USA)
Follow Me: Biblical Practices for Faithful Living is a thirty-six-unit curriculum from the PC(USA) based on practices Jesus did and taught us to do as faithful followers. Written for people of all ages who wish to live out their faith, this new curriculum examines where these practices are found in the Bible and how they have been used in Christian faith then and now.
Faith Questions mini-courses are based on faith questions posed by youth. Each session encourages young people to look to Scripture, as well as our faith tradition, in relevant and responsive ways. Intended for older youth, this curriculum is easily adaptable for broadly graded youth programs. The Leader's Guide explores a topic with multiple faith questions. Movie, music, media, and other technologies are suggested throughout the curriculum to supplement the lessons.
Simple Sundays: From the PC(USA), easy, low-prep, downloadable, and inexpensive 4-5 week lesson plans on a variety of topics. Simple Sundays offers straight-forward lesson plans with little to no preparation required. Perfect for any gathering of youth at any time and in any location.
Informed Adolescent Development: Downloadable, affordable lesson plans from the PC(USA) on tough stuff like addiction, eating disorders, faithful decision making and more
Sparkhouse: Lutheran publishers with several curricula to help youth explore their faith. Includes Re:form (Reform your approach to youth ministry and confirmation), Echo the Story (Invite teens into creative storytelling, imaginative listening, careful observation, and lively dialogue about the Bible and life), and Colaborate (Hands-on investigative learning that leads to deep engagement with the Bible, faith, and what it means to be a Christian).
The Youth Cartel provides youth ministry curriculum that is designed for thoughtful, revolutionary youth workers.
Feasting on the Word Curriculum follows the Revised Common Lectionary and allows everyone to explore the same Bible passage each week. This makes it easy for families to live out their faith together. This curriculum invites learners from children through adults into the rhythm of the church year. Leaders of each age group are provided with a solid biblical background from the well-known commentary Feasting on the Word. Explore the what, where, so what, and now what of each biblical passage from the lectionary through a variety of learning and teaching styles. Joining the Feast connects education with worship offering suggestions to use during the worship service.
Confirmation Curriculum
Big God Big Questions
PC(USA)’s Big God Big Questions: Confirmation for a Growing Faith prepares youth to understand and answer the Confirmation questions:
Trusting in the gracious mercy of God, do you turn from the ways of sin and renounce evil and its power in the world
Who is your Lord and Savior?
Will you be Christ's faithful disciple obeying his word and showing his love
Will you devote yourself to the church's teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers?
Materials include: Teacher’s Guide, Student Journal, the Home/Mentor Guide, Video Lessons, and AMAZING Infographics. If nothing else, you need the infographic posters for your youth room!
Confirm, Not Conform
In addition to more general sessions on Scripture, church history, the Nicene Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, worship, world religions, and social justice, CnC Presbyterian includes sessions on:
The history and structure of the Presbyterian Church
The meaning of Sacraments in the Presbyterian tradition
The church year
The priesthood of all believers
Comprehensive confirmation curriculum that includes a retreat program, mentor recruitment and resources, and parent materials.
Collaborate by Sparkhouse
Each Colaborate: Presbyterian Confirmation lesson focuses on three key elements:
Frame the Problem – Use an infographic to set the tension for the lesson, unpacking and engaging students’ assumptions and past knowledge
Teaching and Learning – Equip students to interact through interaction and creativity by inviting them to draw, ask and answer questions, and share ideas with the group
Project and Closing – Solidify concepts through two activities—an individual writing activity and a more active group project
Changing the World: Confirmation for the Missional Church
Changing the World is not about joining the church; it’s about joining the missional project entrusted to the church.
Requiring adolescents to join the church by professing their faith is a relic of a church concerned with its own power and survival. The focus is on institutional life rather than the call to discipleship. Changing the World shifts the emphasis from increasing membership rolls to helping teenagers claim their missional identities and vocations.
Theocademy Confirmation
Once young people learn about our God of Grace and Love, why would they not choose to be Presbyterian? It can't just be brainwashing. It has to be so much more.
Join host Jessie Light as she introduces us to the "Great Themes of the Reformed Tradition." Featuring interviews between youth and their pastors, animated segments, and a little bit of ridiculousness, students will discover the essence of what it means to be Presbyterian.
The Confirmation Project
Not a curriculum, but great resources. The Confirmation Project seeks to learn the extent to which confirmation and equivalent practices in five Protestant denominations in North America are effective for strengthening discipleship in youth. These denominations include the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Presbyterian Church in the USA, and the United Methodist Church. It seeks to provide Christian leaders with examples of good practice and with strategies that are effective in helping young Christians grow as disciples of Jesus Christ. Strengthening discipleship includes nurturing faith in Jesus Christ and facilitating youth encounters with Christian traditions (Scripture, creeds, confessions, and practices) to support lifelong Christian vocation. This project is funded by the Christian Youth: Learning and Living the Faith grant provided by the Lilly Endowment, Inc..
Sex Ed Curriculum and Resources
God’s Gift of Human Sexuality
Human sexuality and intimacy are gifts from God, foundational elements of who we are as created beings. And while God gives us the freedom to connect with others through these gifts, God expects our relationships to be expressed in loving and responsible ways. Encouraging young people to talk about sexuality and intimacy, this lesson also teaches that intimacy can be established without engaging in sex. Published by the PC(USA).
These Are Our Bodies
These Are Our Bodies addresses foundational issues for how we are called to have conversations about our sexuality within a faith community. Looking at sexuality through the lenses of growth and change, we can explore values and intentionality. Individuals and churches can use this technique to build upon this theological grounding. Age-appropriate modules for preschool through youth adults. Published by the Episcopal Church.
Our Whole Lives
Our Whole Lives helps participants make informed and responsible decisions about their sexual health and behavior. It equips participants with accurate, age-appropriate information in six subject areas: human development, relationships, personal skills, sexual behavior, sexual health, and society and culture. Developed by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ.
Sex + Faith by Kate Ott
This is not a curriculum but a book that can be used as a book study with parents and teens. Talking with your child about sex can be scary! Sex + Faith helps parents incorporate their faith values with sexuality information so they can answer questions, discuss sexuality at each stage of childhood, and show support of sexual and gender differences.