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DETAILS to the "100 Club" Master File 

A complete filing system and step-by-step instructions for setting up the "100 Club" in your congregation.  Young people sit up in front of the congregation during the weekly main meeting, are facilitated in taking enjoyable, meaningful notes, and are encouraged to look in the Bible and write essays at home on interesting "thought questions" based on the sermon.

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The MASTER FILE is the easy, very functional, portable organizing center for a Unit of the "100 Club."

An Example of a "3-pew" single-unit "100 Club" at a small congregation (less than 100 adults):

(photo taken by Bob Greene)

The 100 Club is a group (or groups in a large congregation) of kids that sit up front and take facilitated notes during the sermon time.  Facilitators sit amongst the kids and help them take notes.  The Chief Facilitator takes down a one-page master sheet of the main scriptures and "take-home messages" as a minimal guide that even the smallest kids can copy from.  Kids can take notes in different ways, as they please.  Then toward the last of the sermon, a "Thought Questions" is passed around that the kids copy down.  Those that wish can go home and write up a short essay (minimum of 1 good paragraph that contains a reference to the Bible to back up what they are saying) answering the Thought Question.  Points are given for each essay (up to 10 points), and if a kid gets to 100 points or multiples thereof they get excellent Biblically-oriented prizes, which are presented up in front of the congregation.  Thus the kids are encouraged by facilitated, physical action (writing) to pay attention and better remember the lesson of the day, then to actually learn some of the message by working with it on their own.  Especially for younger kids, this is a good opportunity for parents to interact with them and help them to think about the lesson of that week.  The congregation gets to show its love and approval of the kids, especially when the person is named and comes forward to get a 100 Club Prize.  The kid's name and face now are more easily remembered by the members of the congregation, who can congratulate and talk with the kid much easier than before.

The Master File

The Master File is a very logical, easy way to keep records, the main forms, and ingoing/outgoing essays straight.  It also serves as a handy, wide "desk" to write on and keep all the ingoing/outgoing sheets straight for the Chief Facilitator of a 100 Club Unit.

One Unit comprises up to around 16 kids, plus one Chief Facilitator and up to three Helper Facilitators.  Records of all kids who have at any time sat in the 100 Club are there, plus copies of all Sermon Notes taken, all Thought Questions given, all points given for Essays from each of the kids, a record of all 100 Point Prizes given, Essays waiting to be given points, and "pointed" essays waiting to be given back, blank sermon note sheets, blank record sheets, blank 100 Club Handouts, excellent originals for generating more copies, back-up computer files on a diskette, cards with names for giving out the "industrious person carrot," blank cards for adding more names to the deck, a green colored pen for giving non-threatening points to essays, and a copy of "The 100 Club Handbook" which explains all the details of setting up and running a 100 Club in your congregation.

This should be very carefully protected and maintained by the Unit’s Chief Facilitator.  In it is the record of all the kids that have ever been at any 100 Club session, plus the record of points for all kids that have turned in essays on the Thought Questions.

Key points to remember:         

Have the Master File with you at each session! 

This gives you a place to immediately put all turned-in essays, a set of completed notes/thought-question, and sign-in sheets.  Also, the Master File serves as a very nice portable “desk-top” that’s wider than a song book, so you as the Chief Facilitator have an excellent surface to work from as you sit in your seat or pew and papers are flowing around you. 

One set of the Completed Sermon Notes plus Thought Question should each Sunday go into that section, with the latest set on top of the others. 

This is very easy to forget in the hectic sequence of events of a session.  Having a completed copy of the notes and Thought Question makes it easy to refer back to whenever you need to while grading turned-in essays, which sometimes might be from months before.

Whenever a new kid shows up for the first time, even if they are a 1-time-only visitor, never fail to have them fill out the top part of a sign-in sheet. 

It is easy and quick, and you get a nice record of their name, their parents’ names, age, and date of first attendance.  If they are quite young and have trouble with it, have a Helper Facilitator help them or do it for them.  Don’t forget to immediately file it into the Master File in the appropriate section, alphabetically by first name. That way it doesn’t wind up getting lost.  

In this way, you have a complete record of anyone who ever comes to the 100 Club.  And if they should indeed come back in the future or turn in Thought Question essays then you can immediately give points without any confusion and have their record complete and intact. 

Master Files can be gracefully “retired” as they fill up. 

The Master Files will gradually fill up, mainly from the accumulating sets of sermon-notes/thought-questions.  When the Master File gets too fat, you have two choices: 1) to take out most of the accumulated sets of sermon-notes/thought-questions and file them elsewhere; or  2) retire that particular 3-ring binder, putting the dates it covers prominently on the outside, moving the continuing files and information to a fresh 3-ring binder.

Included with the Master File from Lyle Publishing is a computer disk.  This disk has helpful files that you can download to your computer and alter as suits your congregation’s needs. 

Files are there for:  1) blank sermon note sheets;  2) the 100 Club Hand-Out;  3) 100 Club sign-up sheets; and  4) presentation hand-outs or transparencies.  

One thing you might like to do is to type in the name of your congregation in the blank sermon note sheet, and print out a master copy with this information on it.  In that way, since most or all of your 100 Club note-taking sessions will be at your congregation, the kids don’t have to repeatedly write that out each time.        You can also put the name of your congregation on the other forms.  This makes them look more “official” when you give them to people.

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