Apostolic Bible curriculum for children: what exists, and what each one is for

What Apostolic families are actually asking for

Two different purchases hide behind one search. The first is academic curriculum — reading, phonics, handwriting, arithmetic — the work that fills a school morning. The second is Bible curriculum: material that teaches Scripture and doctrine on purpose, with a lesson, a memory verse and something the child does. Most families need both, and buying one expecting the other is the most common disappointment in this category.

Faith Schooling publishes both, and keeps them clearly apart. The academic programs are Christian in character but do not teach doctrine; a page that teaches long vowels teaches long vowels. The Apostolic material is a separate library, it is entirely free, and it says what it believes on the front.

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Apostolic, Oneness Pentecostal, Apostolic Pentecostal — one audience, several words

Families search for this material under several names. Apostolic, Apostolic Pentecostal, Oneness Pentecostal and Jesus Name all describe the same conviction: one God revealed in Jesus Christ, repentance, water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues. If you searched any of those words, you are in the right place.

Pentecostal on its own is broader. It names a family of churches that hold Spirit baptism as a present experience, and it includes Trinitarian fellowships whose doctrine differs from ours on the Godhead and on the baptismal formula. We do not speak for them, and we would rather a Trinitarian Pentecostal family knew that before a lesson than after one.

How these words relate, defined in full Pentecostal homeschool curriculum: where this one stands

The other Apostolic publishers, named honestly

Pentecostal Publishing House is the established Apostolic publisher, and its Christian Home School collection describes itself as Apostolic and Oneness-focused. Its Pathways Bible curriculum is built around biblical values — doctrine, heritage and disciplines — and kingdom purpose — service and evangelism, on a four-day lesson week with an optional fifth enrichment day. Checked 5 September 2026, Pathways was published for Kindergarten and First Grade with further grades releasing progressively; teacher manuals were listed at $49.99 and student workbooks at $19.99 to $24.99 depending on quantity. The same collection carries the Accelerated Bible Curriculum in sixteen volumes at $7.19 to $9.99, God’s Word for Life, and the God Quest and Treasure Quest story-and-study-guide sets.

That is a real catalogue from a house with real standing, and if a graded, doctrine-first Bible course is what your family wants to buy, it is the obvious place to look. We are not going to pretend otherwise in order to sell you something.

What Faith Schooling does is a different job. It is not a graded Bible course sold by the year. It is a free library built around the two things an Apostolic home does most often — memorising Scripture and studying doctrine from the text — with a complete K–5 academic curriculum underneath it.

What Faith Schooling gives an Apostolic family, at no cost

The Hidden Word is a King James Scripture memory and Bible quizzing curriculum: four Collections, sixteen units, 223 selections and 2,695 print-ready pages, delivered as sixty collection PDFs and sixteen student packets. Every page can be read in the browser or downloaded, and it defines what counts as memorised rather than leaving that to a parent’s judgement on a tired evening.

The Upper Room study guides are twelve complete web lessons in two six-lesson series. The first runs through salvation, repentance, baptism in Jesus’ name, receiving the Holy Ghost, living a holy life and growing in Christ. The second goes further in: the oneness of God, the mighty name of Jesus, the Word of God, the church, the fruit and gifts of the Spirit, and Christ’s return. The Way covers the same ground across thirty sessions in three gates, with a disciple edition and a teacher guide.

The printable collections carry Scripture Seeds memory cards, Faithful Days, Faithful Milestones, Words of Truth, The Bible in View and Faith in Focus. By Many Witnesses adds a ten-volume documentary history of the Apostolic movement. None of it sits behind the membership; all of it is open.

The Hidden Word — Scripture memory and quizzing Upper Room study guides Apostolic Academy printables

Using it in church, Sunday school and co-op

Nothing here is licensed per child. A Sunday school teacher can print a Collection for a class, a co-op can run the Upper Room lessons as a term’s study, and a church can hand the memory cards to every family it has, without asking us and without paying for it.

The Way’s teacher guide exists for exactly that use — the same thirty sessions, written for the person leading them rather than the person taking them. The church resource page collects what a congregation most often wants in one place.

For churches and Sunday schools The Way — teacher guide

Which Bible version each part uses

The Hidden Word is King James throughout, because Bible quizzing is, and The Way quotes King James wording through its thirty sessions. The academic reading and math books and the twelve Upper Room web lessons quote the New King James Version, and each lesson says so. We publish that split rather than implying the whole platform is one or the other, because a family that cares about the translation cares about it exactly.

If your family is King James only, The Hidden Word and The Way meet that standard as published; the Upper Room lessons and the academic books quote the New King James Version, and you would need to be comfortable with that.

Which materials are KJV, and which are not

How to choose between them

If you want a graded Bible course with a teacher manual, a workbook and a scope you can hand to someone else, buy one — Pathways is built in that shape and is the Apostolic option there. If what you actually need is Scripture in your children’s memory, doctrine you can open from the text, and printable material you can put in front of a class this Sunday, take ours; it costs nothing and it is open to everyone.

And if the school day needs covering too, that is the paid side of this site: a complete K–5 reading and math curriculum, one household price, every child.

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