The Sunday class schedule will change on September 6, 2026. Sunday School, Relief Society, priesthood quorums, and Young Women will meet for 25 minutes every week, instead of 50 minutes every other week. Even though the math is the same, how do you make the shorter lesson effective?

Some teachers may be tempted to cover the same material and just talk twice as fast. Others may continue to teach the same way, but cut a few questions and discussion. In the article “The Anatomy of a Twenty-Five-Minute Lesson: How to build a faithful Sunday lesson when the block has been cut in half,” Taylor Halverson recommends that teachers not take either of these two approaches. Instead, he recommends a 5-part approach:

• The Hook (90 seconds). A question, an object, a single verse read aloud, or a one-sentence story.
• The Anchor (3 minutes). The single passage of scripture the lesson is built around.
• The Work (12 minutes). 2-3 layered questions that move from observation to interpretation to application.
• The Turn (2 minutes). The move from text to application.
• The Sending (90 seconds). A single sentence of testimony, a single invitation to act, or a single quiet pause before amen.

Learn more about this approach in the article “The Anatomy of a Twenty-Five-Minute Lesson: How to build a faithful Sunday lesson when the block has been cut in half,” by Taylor Halverson.