Grow Curriculum & Strategy Reviews 262

I have tried curriculum from a LOT of different providers through the years both free and paid; TruFire (Tru), High Voltage, Super Church, Life.Church Kids, Elevate, Children's Ministry Deals, to name a few. We're still only a month in to using it. But so far, Grow Kids Curriculum is the best we've tried yet. I love that it's lessons and themes are centered around scripture first. And it provides all of the elements we need for our services without having to search for supplemental material. Need video skits and bumpers? They've got it. Still want to do a skit AND a craft? Check. They even have relevant worship song suggestions. Oh, and it has all of the bells and whistles too. We love the service builder and how customizable the curriculum is. Other curriculum have their strengths. But this is my favorite by far!

We love the layout and how well organized each unit is.
The balance of OT/NT materials is good too!
We are doing the memory verse as a whole congregation which is really great for all of us. We are also using the Big Idea and scriptures as a basis for our adult sermon time. This allows the whole congregation to study the same material presented at an age-appropriate level for each group.

The elementary aged kids are enjoying the videos for Breaking News much more than the Blast Off series videos, while the preschool kids who loved the Blast Off videos are finding the concepts in Breaking News challenging to grasp (and the teachers are finding the series hard to teach as well).

I have not heard back if the parent link (available without signing in) for the memory verse has been fixed yet.

Grow Curriculum and Annual Strategy has been a great help to me on a weekly and yearly basis. Resources are great and easy to use!

The small group guides, game suggestions, and worship song suggestions are great. The curriculum lessons themselves are good. There are many times I have found that the curriculum seems overly cheesy or not deep enough and I have to change/axe/tweak it.

Grow Curriculum makes it easy for preschool and up. We love that we can make all lessons work in small or large groups. Their tech team is amazing and quickly responded to my questions.

Planning learning paths, setting themes, writing content, thinking of games, organizing events and meetings... So much stuff that takes time and brainpower, when you'd rather spend time discipling leaders and students. Grow is solid content that will solve so much of that list for you, so you can do the work you do best.

Great curriculum! The ability to rework and customize an already great curriculum is fantastic. I've worked at large churches and small, Grow curriculum allows the smaller churches to operate on a scale similar to the churches that seem to have unlimited resources.

There are many groups out there, but Grow is one of the best in my opinion. They recognize that there is no 'one size fits all' youth ministry. So, their flexibility and variety is so helpful. Having the option to plan a strategic year, curriculum, check ins, and games is unique to anything on the market. The new Grow Games app maybe the best thing they've done yet. Thanks Grow!!

I think it is great i don't feel like that games/activites at the begining ever really work for my group

Thank you for making things so easy for users. The children enjoy the curriculum.

I feel like I just gained a huge team of volunteers that have helped me keep moving forward on mission!

We are a church plant, and the tools in this curriculum helped save us a TON of time! Thank you!

This is my third year ordering from Grow and am very pleased. Thank you for all that you guys do!

Grow is far more than a curriculum. It is an entire strategy for reaching kids and partnering with families to see young people grow as disciples of Jesus. Grow has been a great resource for our family ministry and a great tool to see leaders develop in their service of Jesus.
I highly recommend Grow as a great partner in kids' 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.

We are so pleased and excited to fully dive into the Grow Curriculum!

We are kicking off our month with the spiritual habits series. I love the videos that help with navigating the site.

This curriculum was exactly what my youth needed at the right time. Very clearly covered in prayer and wisdom. I would recommend this anyone as it's very useful and flexible to meet your needs of where your church is at.

Grow has EVERYTHING you need to run an entire kids or youth ministry.