Grow Curriculum & Strategy Reviews 262

I Love It! This is the best Curriculum I've used... and I have used Orange, DYM, and Ministry to Youth. Each were good... but I love the interactive portions of the lesson and objective lessons. They are Da BOMB! Thank you!

The Grow curriculum and Stuff you can use Facebook page are just amazing, Both provide biblical and relevant teaching and thoughts on how best to reach students through these times. Thank you Kenny and Elle for helping us carry the load.

Loving Grow so much! Easy to use and affordable

Grow has given our multi-ethnic youth ministry to missionary kids a solid plan to follow rather than taking stabs in the dark on what might be helpful and what might not. It gives a unifying theme and helps so much with organization - something that is not my strength! I love all the add in's that Grow includes - a plan for a summer camp (which we'll use in a different context that fits our needs here), communications with parents and volunteers, and even a youth pastor's planner that helps organize the day to day responsibilities! Grow has made my job SO much easier!

We received the digital curriculum in February with plans to use it beginning in April. This allows us to do training of teachers before hand. This curriculum allows us to concentrate on quality instead of quantity, even though the quantity will come I am sure. It is very user friendly.

Easy to get started using, full of excellent strategies and content!

GROW is extremely flexible and allows us to customize it for our church and what works best for us! Switched to GROW when it first came out for KIDS curriculum and have not looked back or looked for an alternate since we started. Will be expanding after Covid to use for both our midweek and for Sunday.

I think your curriculum is great. I have left out a couple (i.e. 1 kings story of Solomon and the baby.) You you do a wonderful job with your scope and sequence! Your themes are fun and imaginative. We have enjoyed setting up the themes, too! I wrote our church curriuculum for six years and I wanted something that sparked their interest and you checked the boxes!
I will say that I have had to change the order on some things for the calendar year to make sure that it was the same thing that was going on with our church. The wisemen do come a bit later, Pentecost, etc. That is frustrating for me and takes time,
I think, also, that this is a little shy on crafts/experiences that hit the point of the lesson. It doesn't necessarily have to be something that they take home, but something that they can do hands on for those learners that are not driven by audible or visual learning. Most learners at this age are kinesthetic and need that hands on experience to remember what they have learned.
I do Love your Facebook page! It offers great ideas and it is invaluable for all of us. Whether we are seasoned or brand new, that is a great place to learn and share ideas. Good job! Thank you, Grow!

I think the curriculum is awesome! We’ve only been using this for 2 months now and my kids do prefer some videos over others (the elementary kids don’t like to be babied😉). Rather than that I feel like I have everything I need at my finger tips!

I have just begun to use Grow but I am really impressed with it! The curriculum and resources are great but what really impresses me is the flexibility built into it. I have worked in children's ministries with 800 kids and children's ministries with 50 kids and I can honestly say that the Grow Curriculum is 100% scaleable, it will work with whatever size group you have. I also appreciate the regular emails with games and parenting resources, it's like they send me things that I need even before I know I need it.

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!

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.

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.

Grow's curriculum has revolutionized both the way our Children's Ministry is run and also my efficacy as a Children's Minister. Their volunteer communications and appreciation strategies are AMAZING and I've seen measurable success with their method in just 2 months! Our parents are LOVING the content we're able to send home and I feel MUCH less stressed week to week in preparing for meaningful lessons and experiences because Grow has just knocked it out of the park in their scope and sequence. Well done Elle, Kenny, and Grow Team!

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.

Your vision to provide children’s and youth ministry leaders with something so well developed that it really does free them up to focus on the work of making disciples and developing leaders is an absolute answer to prayer! And in light of the enormous impact of Covid on our churches, this is a real dose of encouragement for those seeking to re-launch and, perhaps “re-vision” the way they do ministry with the next generation! Thank you!

We have been very happy with the Grow Curriculum.

I would be lost without Grow!! So relevant and fun. Visually stunning!

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.