Teaching Ministries
The Word taught, week by week, for every age.
Across our Sunday and Wednesday gatherings, Pray’s Mill gives itself to one ordinary, patient work: the careful teaching of God’s Word to every age. We do not call this a “program.” It is the steady classroom-and-pulpit life of a church that takes seriously the apostle’s charge to “preach the word” and to “teach… what accords with sound doctrine” (2 Tim. 4:2; Titus 2:1). Below is how that teaching takes shape week by week.
Sunday Mornings (9:30 am)
Sunday School.
Each Lord’s Day at 9:30 am, before the morning service, the congregation gathers for an hour of focused, classroom-style teaching. Every class is team-taught by an elder and another man of the congregation — a pattern that disciples the next generation of teachers in the room with the present one, and gives each class the steady hand of a shepherd plus the fresh study of a brother. The kinds of classes we offer fall into three streams:
- Book studies — slow, careful work through a single book of the Bible.
- Doctrine — walking through the 1689 London Baptist Confession and the great Christian doctrines it summarizes.
- Practical topics — subjects every Christian needs (for example, How to Study Your Bible, prayer, evangelism, marriage, parenting).
Bring your Bible and a notepad. New visitors are welcome to slip in at any point in a series. See the Teaching Lessons archive for past series and current notes.
Sunday Mornings (9:30 am)
Children’s Sunday School (optional).
During the same hour, we offer a children’s Sunday School class taught by faithful members of our congregation. The teachers walk the children through the storyline of the Bible and the core truths of the Christian faith — the same gospel the adults are hearing next door, sized for younger ears.
This class is optional. Parents are equally welcome to bring their children into the adult Sunday School class, and many of our families do exactly that. We are glad either way. See our Families page for more on how Pray’s Mill ministers to children.
Wednesday Evenings (6:30 pm)
Wednesday Night Bible Study and Prayer.
Wednesday evenings at 6:30 pm, the adults of the church gather for Bible study and prayer. The Wednesday meeting often takes a different shape from Sunday morning — sometimes topical, sometimes a deeper-water exposition, sometimes a book study — and always with extended congregational prayer. It is one of the most quietly weighty hours of our week. See the Teaching Lessons archive for current and past Wednesday studies.
Wednesday Evenings (6:30 pm)
Children’s Choir & Catechism Class.
While the adults are in Bible study, the children gather for children’s choir and catechism class. They learn to sing the hymns and psalms they will sing on the Lord’s Day alongside their parents, and they work through the Tune My Heart catechism one question at a time. The aim is simple: that our children would grow up able to say what they believe and why — with the words of the historic Christian faith on their lips and the songs of the saints in their memory.
A Pattern, Not a Program
The Word, week after week, for every age.
What ties these four gatherings together is the conviction that Christian formation is the patient, ordinary, lifelong work of sitting under the Word of God. We are not built around special events, conference seasons, or charismatic personalities. We are built around the simple weekly classroom — Sunday and Wednesday, adults and children — where the church teaches what God has revealed, and the saints learn to “hold fast the pattern of sound words” (2 Tim. 1:13).
If you would like to plug in, the simplest thing is to start coming. There is no signup. Come Sunday at 9:30. Come Wednesday at 6:30. Stay afterward. Talk to a pastor. Bring your children. The classroom door is open.