Contents
Acknowledgments 11
Issues of Ethics 13
Foreword 15
Introduction 17
Part 1
The History and Prac tice of Children’s Outreach
1 Robert Raikes and the Sunday School Movement 23
Robert Raikes
Robert Raikes’ England
Raikes’ model of child evangelism (1780–1800)
2 Child Evangelism at the End of the Twentieth Century 57
‘Fifties Freefall’?
All-age worship
Bill Wilson and the Metro Sunday School
Midweek attendance
3 Child Evangelism in the Twenty-first Century 67
The questionnaire
Analysis
Conclusion
4 Four Key Projects 80
Introduction
The Fraserburgh project
The Leeds project
The Hastings project
The Liverpool project
5 The Slough and Windsor Project 109
Introduction
The Saturday club
Home visits
School visits
Small groups
Part 2
Connecting with the Unchurched Child
6 Theology 145
The spiritual state of the pre-evangelized child
Child evangelism as Christian education
Child evangelism as encounter
Conclusion
7 Sociology 206
Social environment and influences on the child
The state of the church
8 Practice 228
Professional teachers
Hymn-singing and prayer
Rewards, prizes and incentives
Connection between Children’s Outreach Project and parents
Meeting a clear social need and empowerment
Communication
Connection between Children’s Outreach Project and church
Connection between Children’s Outreach Project and local
schools
9 Conclusions and Recommendations 285
1 Methodology and Literature Review 301
2 The Self-completion Questionnaire 311
3 Survey and Quantitative Research (Phase 2): 314
New Zealand and Australia
Bibliography 321