Growcurriculum Reviews

The Grow series and content is great The Grow representative was very helpful She organized a zoom call for the Sunday School Director and teachers She answered many questions and offered advice It is a bit challenging organizing a complete virtual lesson The online hacks is helpful however you still need to review pull out and combine the material from the elementary and preschool lessons It is a bit time consuming to put the material together for weekly virtual Sunday school It would be great if the online hacks was more of an online lesson and had all the content so that you don t have to go back and fourth between documents I have also found it challenging to copy and paste from the documents to make a new document to share for example in an email to Sunday school teachers Maybe there is an easier way to do this but I have not figured it out yet

We are loving Grow The whole process from working with our budget to downloading files has been super easy and helpful It took me awhile to find a few things in the files but after only 2 months of it I know where to look The kids are loving the lessons and seem to retain the ideas better There s so much versatility and adaptability in the curriculum we are using it for Sunday School Children s church and Wednesday nights Thank you for rejuvenating our children s ministry

Great organization Fantastic communication tools Really well produced The topics are very timely as well and they re great at connecting their curriculum to the issues our students are facing today It gets 4 stars instead of 5 because I feel like a lot of the curriculum lacks depth The small group questions need some serious work The included messages are solid but some of them feel like they re trying to get students to an emotional place rather than a spiritual one Other than that I love it Would recommend But I would also say to anyone that asks you may need to write your own questions

Grow lessons provide a variety of activities to meet the needs of teachers and students Most of the needed supplies we already have or can easily substitute for what we do have Our kids are not only engaged but remember what we learn each week

The content is top notch and I love it The reason for not giving a 5th star is that the response rate for support on Grow Numbers attendance tracker is very very slow sometimes taking as long as a week for a reply I believe because this is new it is a bit clunky right now but I m confident it ll improve with time

The administrative end of this curriculum is the only thing of its kind that I ve seen That is why we ordered it and that is why we keep it Pros Complete wholistic approach to ministry that recognizes there s a lot more to what happens than just what is taught on Sunday morning Great customer support Preschool videos are great Cons Steep learning curve to start using everything Teaching material is less than Wow i e Tell or act out the Bible story Figure this part out for yourself not helpful Elementary videos are done in a PreK appropriate format with Elementary-age content not usable for any age

I rated it 4 instead of 5 stars ONLY because I wish each series came with one of your amazing original songs Leaders volunteers parents and children have all thoroughly enjoyed the curriculum for the months we have been using it

We really enjoy Grow curriculum It has so many great features to make it user and family friendly I especially love that it is Bible driven not topic or character trait driven I love that there are now quality videos being produced with the elementary aged lessons My only critique is that I wish you could find a happy medium between cool Carll who we all love My kids and teachers loved Carll but for the younger ones those videos need a little more action with them Like the videos from last summer s VBS Carll has a fun and cool factor for the older kids but instead of sitting behind the desk all the time I would love to see him get up and do some crazy stuff to keep the kids engaged the whole time Hobbies with Bobby seems to lose the older kids I love that it has different segments but the content seems directed towards younger elementary Looking for something that hits in the middle Thanks for all you do We really enjoy Grow I recommend it highly

I am so impressed with the structural side of Grow s products - the planning calendaring tools are super helpful

I really enjoy using Grow Curriculum I ve been using it since Volume 2 and I think for people who have been using all of the awesome resources like emails to parents and leaders - things like that for multiple years now it has become a little redundant I love that Grow literally hands you ready to go emails but some of the tips of the month and resources of the month are repeats I m not saying that repeating giving parents and leaders is bad but a little change for the next volume would be refreshing Again I love using it it makes what I do much simpler and gives me a lot of tools to be successful