Note - the following is a copy of Truth Trackers FAQ website page with comments added in from Central Bible leaders and workers to help explain what Wednesday nights will look like this coming year.
FAQ
How do you address evangelism and visitors in Truth Trackers?
Truth Trackers is a discipleship program for children. By that we mean that we focus both on the first step of discipleship, which is becoming a believer, and on the continued walk in Christ, which is progressively growing spiritually. We believe the first step of discipleship is a very important step. Our approach to evangelism is different than most children's programs. We use two strategic methods to evangelize the children.
Forgiven Tract
The Forgiven Tract is the entrance tract the children go through to enter the program. Every child must personally sit down with a leader and go through this tract. When a child comes to Truth Trackers for the first time, a leader sits down with the visitor during the memory time and reads through the Forgiven Tract with the child.
The goal of the Forgiven Tract is simply to give the child the Gospel. First the leader turns to the back of the tract and explains the requirements to enter the program. His/her name is written in the tract, and the expectations and rewards are explained.
CBC comment: Basically we will expect kids to obey simple directions: don't be unkind to others, do what adults say, and listen when they are speaking. You as parents can expect us to be gentle, consistent, and let you know when we need your help. Rewards for doing the work at home will be left to the parents to manage as they like. This gives you the parent more options to motivate your individual children best and it helps us focus on making Wednesday night times be as effective as we can be with our part of that.
The tract is designed so that a child can easily fulfill the requirements. There are two requirements written on the back of the tract. Requirement 1 is completed when a child reads through the tract with a leader. The child and leader both sign this. After the completion of Requirement 1 the child will go to the registration desk and receive an award. Requirement 2 is completed when the child returns home and reads through the tract with a parent or guardian. The parent or guardian signs Requirement 2 and then when the child returns the next week, the leader signs Requirement 2. The child will also receive an award for completing this Requirement.
CBC comment: Each child that completes this part of the program will receive a Truth Trackers shirt.
This is not only an opportunity for the leader to assist a child in completing the tract, but also, and most importantly, we want to help this child understand his or her need for Jesus Christ. We do not encourage the leaders to push a child into a decision or scare him/her into a decision. This is not a time to call for a decision, but rather leaders can use this time to help the child understand God's Word and to make themselves available for future counsel. This is also a great opportunity to enter into the home of that visitor and talk with the parent (who has read through the tract with their child) about the gospel.
After the child has completed the Forgiven Tract, he can purchase materials to enter into the program.
CBC Comment: We really appreciate your donation of $35/child to help us cover the expenses of the books and other materials. Families that want to purchase awards on the Truth Trackers website can order those items as they like, and pay the same price as we would if we ordered it for them. If you would like to award your children with things that motivate them better instead, that is totally fine also.
Friend Nights
Friend Nights are special nights set aside by your club to evangelize the children's friends and neighbors. Your club will schedule three friend nights somewhere in your yearly calendar. These nights either replace or fall on the same night as Truth Trackers*. This allows for your church to have a children's evangelism night every season: fall, winter, spring, and summer (if you have VBS). These nights are special Truth Trackers nights for evangelization. A theme can be picked and prizes can be awarded to children who bring the most visitors. Many churches have seen these nights be fruitful nights of strategic and focused evangelism for their church.
What is your advice?
Why are you switching programs?
We think you should consider Truth Trackers for many reasons. We produce quality materials. We try to keep our costs low. Our materials are simple to understand and implement. But we think the number one reason you should use Truth Trackers is this: we believe Truth Trackers can best equip your children and families to know and apply Bible doctrine. We have discovered when church members understand the Truth Trackers philosophy and methods, they are excited about the new club and whole heartedly support it.
CBC Comment: We looked at several programs and the decision to go with Truth Trackers was not easy since there is so much out there, but we think TT is best for us at this time. We are looking forward to this year and are confident the materials will work well.
What is lacking in your children’s ministry right now? What do you want the Sunday/Midweek service program to do that no other program is doing?
Look at your entire children’s ministry and write out your goals for each program you run. What do you want the Sunday school to teach and do? What is the children’s church (if you have one) teaching and accomplishing? What should the Sunday/Midweek service program accomplish and teach? Many churches don’t know these answers, and the result is usually that every ministry tries to accomplish every task. For instance, Sunday school has a memory verse and a devotional they send home, while children’s church has a memory verse and a take home sheet. The children’s choir gives a prize for memorizing a verse. Then on Sunday/Midweek service the children have even more verses to memorize. Probably, the teaching is random as well.
Our suggestion is that you gather all your children’s teachers and workers lay out the goals for each program. Give specific goals for each program and show those teachers and workers how they complement each other.
CBC Comment: Our Sunday Schools and Jr. Church are opportunities to be even more focused on discipleship and teaching - having more emphasis on application of truth and more intentional in regard to scripture memory on a more individual level, but being careful not to shame kids that have a harder time with that. Classes for the younger kids are sensitive to the needs they have at their age while our Jr. Church gives the older kids an opportunity to mature before they graduate into "Big Church" by occasionally listening to longer and deeper teaching.
What do you want to accomplish in a new program?
In answer to this question, we encourage you to make sure you have a goal(s) for starting a new club. Consider your vision for this club in your church and community?
CBC Comment: It's difficult to separate goals and pin point vision, but outreach is a high priority goal for our Wednesday night program. Good outreach always involves discipleship but that discipleship is often needed to be a little more basic than it would be in a Sunday School class for regularly attending children. Kids who are not a part of a local church with their parents or guardians are welcome and will hear that we are sinners in need of a Savior. They will also hear the good news of Jesus as Lord and what He has done as our only Savior.
Kids who may already be born again believers will also benefit from lessons that solidify the foundation they already have.
Relational discipleship includes teaching, songs, and some scripture memory but less focus on word for word accuracy and reciting as many as possible. Having wholesome fun in all of this helps kids to trust their leaders and enjoy learning about God in a caring community of people who understand children and where they are in life.
Are your workers trained and excited?
Your workers need to be ready to go by the first night of club. Make sure they understand not just WHAT to do, but WHY they are doing it. This is so important. Your workers will have many different ideas. They will probably follow the methods, but if they understand WHY these methods work, they will follow with excitement. Sometimes training isn’t so much telling people what to do, but it is showing them why you want it done a certain way.
CBC Comment: We are looking forward to a fresh start looking at every aspect of the ministry and why we will do what we do, and helping all involved work consistently together.
Do your parents understand how the program works and what their responsibility is?
Truth Trackers is a family memory program. We want families to memorize the Bible together. In order to do that, you will want to teach your families the importance of learning Bible doctrine and of memorizing Scripture. If parents are NOT encouraging the children to memorize and learn doctrine, the children probably won’t care either. Admonish your parents to take responsibility for their children’s discipleship and use Truth Trackers as a tool to do that.
CBC Comment: We agree with the value in families doing this together very much but we won't be twisting arms or pointing fingers at families that opt out. Your kids won't be embarrassed on Wednesday night because they didn't do their homework. We understand families may have things they have already been doing for years and may need to make decisions based on their priorities.
If your family has had a hard time doing something regularly together, this may be very helpful because it will motivate everyone to give it a try, and once you see the materials we think you will agree that it doesn't have to be burdensome. Even if a family could spend 10 minutes of daily time together with the Truth Journal as a guide it could make a huge difference in your family life because it is based on God's word, the Bible.
Question:
The devotional books are clear, simple and yet have purpose. However, my first thought is about overlap between the Sunday school devotions and these. What should we do about that?
Answer: We encourage churches to do the Truth Trackers devotions because they help the children understand the doctrine their verse and lesson teach. If other children’s ministries have requirements for devotions, you should think about either eliminating those devotions or making those devotions optional. We advise you to evaluate all your children’s ministries, define the purpose of each one, and then coordinate the materials and requirements of ALL your children’s ministries. Many times the leaders in each of your children’s ministries do what is best for that particular ministry. This can cause children and families to be overburdened with requirements, and it can cause the children’s ministries to be less effective.
Question:
Why can’t the children memorize as many verses as they want?
Answer: The memory program for Truth Trackers is meant to be different. We focus on qualitative learning, rather than quantitative. Most children who can say 4-5 verses a night are not really retaining them anyway. The Truth Trackers goal is qualitative, long term memorization. Also, this is a meant to be a family memory program. It helps families memorize together when everyone is working on the same doctrines and verses.
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