PROGRAM INTRODUCTION

In an era where many teenagers' beliefs are shaped by culture, emotion, and ever-shifting ideas, the Rooted Catechising School exists to offer clarity, stability, and depth.

​We are a non-denominational discipleship programme designed to ground young people in the truth of God's Word. Built on the conviction that young believers must not only hear the truth but understand and live it, we equip teenagers to know what they believe, why they believe it, and how to stand firmly upon it in every season of life. A school parents can genuinely trust.

The Burden behind the School

This programme did not arise from a curriculum planning exercise. It is a response to a clear and pressing burden from the Holy Spirit.

On the 30th of March 2025, while reading The Torch and the Sword by Rick Joyner, the Holy Spirit gave a pointed word of concern regarding the state of teaching that many young Christians were receiving. His words were direct: "What they are being fed now cannot sustain them." This was not a general observation, it was a prophetic charge. The seasons ahead will demand young people who are doctrinally grounded, spiritually stable, and firmly established in the foundational truths of Christ. Shallow or surface-level teaching will not be sufficient. They must be rooted.

This conviction shapes everything about the Rooted Catechising School; its structure, its depth, its deliberate focus on doctrine, and its refusal to trade substance for entertainment. The coming seasons will test what young people are made of. This school exists to ensure they are made of something that will hold.

Addressing the Trust Gap

In early April 2026, the Holy Spirit raised a further insight that speaks directly to one of the most significant barriers keeping teenagers from sound biblical instruction.

He drew attention to a common pattern among Christian families: parents willingly hire mathematics tutors, science teachers, and examination coaches to ensure their children pass school examinations and rightly so. Yet the same intentionality is rarely applied to the spiritual education of those same children. Enrolment in Bible schools or structured Christian instruction for teenagers remains uncommon, even among committed believing homes.

The reason, He revealed, is not indifference nor carelessness, it is trust. Many Christian parents are deeply cautious about who is allowed to teach their children spiritual matters. They have legitimate concerns about half-baked theology, one-sided doctrinal positions, and denominational traditions being presented as absolute biblical truth, especially traditions the parents themselves neither hold nor practise. The result is that teenagers are left without the structured, substantive biblical formation they urgently need, simply because a trustworthy, neutral, and doctrinally sound option has not been readily available.

The response: A school parents can trust

The Rooted Catechising School for Teens is specifically designed to fill this gap. It is a Holy Spirit's inspired answer to both the doctrinal urgency and the trust deficit.

This school is built on four uncompromising commitments:

•  Non-denominational — this school carries no denominational affiliation, agenda, or bias. No tradition, movement, or church structure is elevated above the Word of God itself.

•  Scripture-centred — every doctrine, principle, and lesson is rooted exclusively in the Bible, written out in full (NKJV), so that students encounter God's Word directly rather than through the filter of secondary opinion.

•  Systematically structured — lessons are taught in a deliberate, progressive order that builds foundational wisdom before advancing to deeper truth, ensuring that understanding accumulates layer upon layer in a way that strengthens and stabilises.

•  Practically applied — doctrine is never taught in isolation. Each lesson connects belief to daily Christian living, equipping teenagers not merely to know the truth but to live it faithfully in their generation.

The result is a programme that Christian parents can confidently entrust their teenagers to, knowing that what is taught reflects pure biblical doctrine, presented with clarity, and delivered with simplicity with the single aim of building their child up in Christ.

Drawing from the biblical pattern established in Exodus, where each generation was charged to understand and explain the mighty works of God, this programme equips teenagers to know what they believe, why they believe it, and how to live it out faithfully. Through structured teaching, Scripture-based learning, and practical applications that are delivered through both online and in-person (hybrid) platforms. Students are guided through the core doctrines of the Christian faith, the message of the Gospel, and the principles of daily Christian living.

The goal is not merely the accumulation of knowledge, but the formation of character; raising young people who are rooted in Christ, shaped by truth, and prepared to stand firm in every season of life.

"And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, 'This is done because of what the LORD did for me when I came up from Egypt.'"  — Exodus 13:8–10, NKJV

Vision

​To raise a generation of young believers who understand and can clearly declare the truth of God's Word and are grounded in Christ, while being able to give a confident account of their faith and firmly established, to stand in every season of life.

​Mission

​To catechise young people in the doctrines of Christ and the principles of God's Kingdom, equipping them to know the Truth, live it faithfully, endure trials with perseverance, and represent Christ with boldness and courage in their generation.

​To provide Christian parents and families with a trustworthy, non-denominational environment where their teenagers receive systematic, Scripture-based instruction free from bias.

HOW THE SESSIONS ARE  DELIVERED

Classes shall hold every Saturday between 3:00pm and 4:30pm in the afternoon on scheduled dates. One of the greatest challenges we have had is the picking of a convenient time. The reality is that there won't ever be one except we make it so. We so much believe that this sacrifice shall be worth it.

Online Delivery — The Primary Mode

The online channel is the school’s primary and standard mode of delivery. A Google Meet link is issued to all enrolled parents and teens before the programme commences and remains valid for the duration of all sessions. Enrolled teens and their parents simply join at the scheduled session time each Saturday.

All students, regardless of age attend a single unified session. Teaching is deliberately pitched to engage both the 12–14 and 15–17 age groups within the same class, drawing on age-appropriate illustrations and discussion questions that invite responses from both groups. This approach reflects the time-honoured biblical tradition of mixed-age learning, where younger students are stretched by the reflections of older peers, and older students are reinforced in the foundations of their faith.

Post-session, enrolled families receive access to age-specific WhatsApp discussion groups; one for the 12–14 bracket and one for the 15–17 bracket where follow-up reflection questions, application challenges, and additional resources are shared. This is where age-tailored engagement is deepened beyond the live session.

In-Person Attendance — A Supplementary Option

Teens who reside near a facilitator’s location are welcome to attend physically at that facilitator’s residence. In-person attendance is a supplementary access option, not a separate programme. Physical students join the same Google Meet session as their online peers; they simply experience it from a facilitator’s location rather than their own home. The same single unified session applies to all.

As the programme grows, the school expects online enrolment to be the predominant mode of participation. Parents are warmly encouraged to prioritise the online option where possible, as it consistently provides the complete programme experience this school is designed to deliver.

Parental Involvement

Parents are warmly encouraged to join their teens during any session at any time. All class activities are fully visible to parents, and no part of the programme is closed to parental presence. Parents who attend alongside their teens are always welcome.

Guest Facilitators 

Across the 33-week programme, few sessions will be facilitated by carefully selected guest voices. Each guest facilitator is a trusted individual known to the programme leadership, theologically grounded, and fully briefed on the curriculum objectives and spirit. Some of them may even join us online all through the 33 weeks. Their contribution is not a departure from the programme but an intentional enrichment of it. Teens, by design, respond with fresh energy to a new voice delivering familiar truth; it sharpens attention, invites broader perspective, and often makes a lesson memorable in a way that reinforces rather than replaces what has been built. Parents can be assured that every session, whether delivered by the program convener or a guest, follows the same lesson curriculum and plan, holds to the same doctrinal standards, and remains fully open to parental presence and review.

Session Recordings

All sessions are recorded and links to download them shall be made available to enrolled families on the WhatsApp group after each class. Teens who are unable to attend a live session are encouraged to watch the recording before the following class, so that learning remains continuous and uninterrupted.

The Complete Curriculum Outline

To register, kindly fill the short form in below link:

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Note: If as a parent, you are registering more than one child, endeavour to fill for each one of them seperately.

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