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Everyday Family Faith: Fresh Ideas for Family Faith Formation
Looking for new ways to equip parents and kids to grow in faith at home? Check out Everyday Family Faith.
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March 28, 2019
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Deepening Sunday School During Dinner in Oostburg, WI
The group engaged in a lively and stimulating conversation, reflecting on how they might apply Mimi’s teaching in ways that best fit the Oostburg congregation.
February 7, 2019
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Ten Ways to Help Your Family Grow in Faith
This resource gives parents ten affirming tips for beginning a journey of family faith formation in everyday life.
February 7, 2019
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Ten Ways to Encourage Faith Formation in the "Third Third" of Life
This resource gives your church fresh ideas for helping faith grow in people age 60-plus.
February 5, 2019
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Ten Ways to Cultivate Youth Leadership
This tool can help your church learn how to identify and awaken leadership gifts in young people and make space for them to practice leadership skills.
February 5, 2019
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Ten Ways to Bless and Be Blessed by Older Church Members
Discover ten ways your congregation can actively love, support, and include older members of the body of Christ.
December 14, 2018
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Coaching Corner: A Coaching Intensive on the Isle of Green Gables
We at Faith Formation Ministries are grateful that Charlottetown invited us to walk with them for this “Faith Formation Intensive Weekend.” Might your congregation benefit from something similar? Let us know.
November 29, 2018
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New Reformed Discipleship Manual for Teens, Adults, and New Believers
Come and See. . .Our World Belongs to God is a discipleship manual that has taken the Contemporary Testimony Our World Belongs to God and divided the 58 paragraphs into 25 chapters.
October 21, 2018
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Coaching Corner: Canoeing the Mountains Workshop on Adaptive Leadership
On Sept 22, 140 congregational leaders gathered in Brampton, ON for an all day workshop led by LA-based Tod Bolsinger, author of Canoeing the Mountains. Would your region be blessed by a workshop?
September 26, 2018
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Family Faith Formation Toolkit
This free online toolkit helps ministry leaders develop a vision for family faith formation and equips parents and caregivers with family faith practices and resources.
August 24, 2018
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Coaching Corner: The Challenges of Staffing a Congregation Wisely
When the youth pastor at Gateway CRC in Abbotsford left, the congregation wasn't sure what the best succession plan was. Here's how they moved forward.
August 22, 2018
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Weekly Family Faith Formation Tips for Your Church Bulletin
Want to help families in your congregation grow in faith? Watch for these weekly tips in your inbox!
August 6, 2018
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A Gospel Summary for Kids
Being able to talk with kids about God’s salvation plan in a way that nurtures their faith is important, but it’s not always easy. That’s why Faith Formation Ministries developed this gospel summary for children.
July 25, 2018
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Coaching Corner: Parenting Workshops at VBS
As Pastor Jun Kim from the New Westminster (BC) CRC was planning the annual VBS program, he approached Faith Formation Ministries’s regional catalyzer Liz Tolkamp and invited her to help him put together parenting workshops that would take place while the children were in VBS.
June 26, 2018
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Coaching Corner: Reflective Coffee Conversations
Jill’s conversations centered on family faith formation, a specific focus that Faith Formation Ministries (FFM) has chosen for the coming school year. “These pastors noted how busy families are,” she said.
May 17, 2018
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Hiring a Youth Pastor or Director
Looking for someone to lead your youth ministry? Check out Hiring a Youth Pastor or Director: What Churches and New Hires Should Know — a new resource by Faith Formation Ministries’ youth ministry catalyzer Ron deVries.
May 1, 2018
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Rave Reviews for New Catechism Study
Looking for something new for youth group or catechism class? The Big Question is getting rave reviews! This informal four-session exploration of Q&A 1 is easy to lead and offers lots of activity options to choose from.
March 14, 2018
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Introducing Mimi Larson
We are excited to introduce to you the newest member of our Faith Formation Ministries team: Mimi Larson. Mimi serves as the CRC's Children's Ministry Catalyzer. We asked Mimi some questions to get to know her better.
March 7, 2018
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Ten Great Children’s Ministry Resources From the CRC
Check out the CRC’s growing list of children’s ministry resources on the topics of faith formation, Sunday school, worship, communion, family ministry, and more.
February 28, 2018
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Intergenerational Church Toolkit
This free online resource toolkit from Faith Formation Ministries shares dozens of ideas for how intergenerational ministry helps children, teens, and adults worship, learn, serve, and grow together.
February 27, 2018
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Children and Communion
While each child’s developmental path is unique, there are common patterns in how children’s understanding of the Lord’s Supper typically unfolds. This two-page resource summarizes those patterns from preschool through the teenage years.
February 27, 2018
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Building Blocks of Faith Toolkit
This free online resource toolkit from Faith Formation Ministries introduces four important "Building Blocks of Faith" and shares practical ideas for how to use them to assess and strengthen all of your church's ministries.
February 27, 2018
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Children's Ministry Catalyzer for CRC Churches
Mimi Larson is the new Children’s Ministry Catalyzer with Faith Formation Ministries! Contact her if you have children's ministry questions or challenges, e.g., faith formation and child-specific spiritual development, children’s ministry program development and curriculum selection, and more.
February 6, 2018
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Lent With Children: Simplified Stations of the Cross
The themes entwined in the Lenten season — self-examination, lament, mortality — aren’t easy concepts for kids to wrap their brains around. For Lent this year, consider adding visual and tactile elements to your observation of Lent.
January 16, 2018
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Ten Ways to Strengthen Intergenerational Worship
This two-page resource from Faith Formation Ministries shares ten tips for building intergenerational worship practices that engage children, teens, and adults at your church.