MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE NEXT GENERATION THAT’S GOING TO LAST A LIFETIME

You can’t have an effective strategy if you can’t get leaders on the same page. Many age-group curriculums work independently from each other—what happens in the preschool environments seems disconnected from what happens in elementary, middle school, and high school—and the organization can drift into a collection of random programs that don’t really compliment each other. But Orange provides a strategic curriculum that aligns leaders and programs so that every child in your ministry grows up with an authentic faith in Jesus. In each curriculum, practical content and applications are provided that are unique to each phase of a kid’s or teenager’s life. Although each curriculum has a unique age-group focus, every lesson recycles an essential idea that is connected to a master plan. Together all of these curriculums create a comprehensive strategy

Although God’s story remains the same, every age group understands and responds to the Good News in their own way. If you hope to translate the essence of Scripture to the heart of a kid or teenager, you need to understand how they are wired. A 6th grader has different spiritual, emotional, physical, and mental needs than a high school senior. Biblical truth needs to be presented in a way that is personally relevant if you want it to stick. For the past three years, Orange has partnered with the Phase Project to conduct hundreds of hours of research, interviews, surveys, and conversations with leaders who invest in the lives of kids and teenagers. Our writers, editors, video producers and creative directors continually seek new, innovative ways to say, show and teach timeless Biblical truths to every age-group from birth to graduation.

Whereas a church only has 40 hours of potential influence with kids each year, the average parent or guardian has 3,000 hours of potential influence. You increase your potential to influence a child when you tap into a parent’s influence. That’s why all Orange curriculum includes tangible cues parents can use at strategic times throughout the week to reinforce what was talked about on Sunday. Over the past decade, Orange has partnered with research organizations like Fuller Youth Institute and Barna to discover what is changing about the landscape of families in our communities. No matter where your church is located, we know this is true: You are surrounded by married parents, single parents, re-married parents, adoptive parents, un-churched parents, and grandparents who are parenting again. We are more committed than ever to create resources that will inspire and mobilize every parent to do something more for their child’s faith.

Each church is assigned an Orange Specialist to personally assist in implementing curriculum and strategy. These specialists have real world experience as a family ministry leader, and each one has helped hundreds of churches just like yours. They are well-equipped to provide innovative solutions for every ministry context. Whether your church has 250 regular attendees or 25,000, the Orange Specialist assigned to you will be trained and experienced to help churches of your specific size. The team at Orange works with specialists in child development, parenting, leadership, education, and service organizations to make sure we are always learning from other learners. And Orange Specialists talk to over 48,000 leaders every year who do what you do in churches of every size, denomination, region, and demographic. In fact, for every hour of time you give a kid, Orange gives you over 100 hours of research, writing, and support.

Orange was the first curriculum to launch an online, fully-customizable church curriculum over ten years ago. From the beginning, our mission has been to make it as easy as possible for churches to win in their community. That means that we want to give you the resources you need, in the way you need them, with a high level of flexibility. Bend it, shape it, make it your own. Because it’s web-based, the material can be crafted to fit your environment, using editable text files and customizable graphics. Based on weekly conversations with leaders in small churches, large churches, city churches, and rural churches, Orange is innovating once again. This year, Orange launched an all new curriculum delivery system for so that it’s faster, easier, and even more effective with your particular community.

The Orange strategy emphasizes a relational approach to ministry by providing resources for consistent adult leaders to engage kids and teenagers every week. When you put a trusted adult (beside a parent) in the life of a child or teenager, you provide an additional voice reinforcing core values. That’s why Orange curriculum not only provides activities and discussion questions for a small group setting, but it also systematically trains leaders every week of the year. Every month, Orange writes over a million words and produces over 25 videos all with one purpose: to connect kids and teenagers with a consistent leader who can help move them to make wiser decisions, build stronger relationships, and develop a deeper faith. We create the resources so you can focus on building relationships.