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15-September-1999 
99302 
 
    Samples of New "Covenant People" Curriculum 
    Mailed to Churches 
 
    New materials will be ready for use in fall of 2000 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-Samples of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s new church 
school curricula - "Covenant People," "Bible Quest" and "The Present Word" 
- have been sent to every Presbyterian congregation as the much-anticipated 
rollout of the new materials nears. 
 
    The new curricula will make their official debut at the Feb. 2-5, 2000 
meeting of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators, where a series 
of workshops will be conducted to teach Presbyterian educators about the 
new curricula. 
 
    But with budget decisions for next year being made this fall, the 
Curriculum Publishing Program Area (CPPA) in the Congregational Ministries 
Division here has sent out the free samples, along with a price list, a 
budget planning sheet and an order card for more samples. 
 
    A complete catalog of PC(USA) curriculum resources is due out in 
January. 
 
    In addition, CPPA has organized a network of curriculum experts, 
appointed by their presbyteries, called POINT (Presbyterians Organized In 
Nurture and Teaching) to demonstrate the new materials and answer questions 
and provide feedback to CPPA from the churches in their presbyteries.  CPPA 
associate director Donna Blackstock says that 80 percent of the 
denomination's 173 presbyteries have appointed POINT persons. 
 
    The success of the new curricula are essential.  "Right now about 34 
percent of Presbyterian churches are using denominational curricula," CPPA 
interim publisher James Marchal told the Presbyterian News Service.  "We'll 
be all right if more than 40 percent use the new materials and we'd really 
love to see at least 50 percent of our churches use them.  We believe this 
is state-of-the-art curriculum that Presbyterians should be proud to use." 
 
    More information is available by calling CPPA at (502) 569-5756 or by 
visiting its Web site at <pcusa.org/pcusa/currpub>. 

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