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Faith Formation
Pastor Church 
Staci
Ken 
Wendy
Building a culture of commitment can provide sturdier encouragement to believers to take the step of publicly professing their faith and affirming their baptism before their brothers and sisters in Christ.
You are invited to an interactive presentation, discussion, and time of prayer at Covenant CRC in Sioux Center, Iowa, on Tuesday, March 1 from 7 to 8:30 pm.
Learn more about how faith grows in your church by joining this 'Building Blocks of Faith' cohort!
Pastor Church Resources has been helping churches and pastors to be more trusting of and trustworthy for one another for a long time—it will be 40 years in 2022!
The Building Blocks of Faith can transform your church’s faith formation efforts, and this newly revised resource can help.
We all know that the pandemic has taken a toll on our bodies, relationships, communities, and churches. So how can ministry leaders prepare their congregations to be places of healing?
Here are some ideas for how church leaders can use the Building Blocks of Faith to assess ministry strengths and weaknesses and create new ministry initiatives that are holistic in scope and in faith formation engagement.
Here are a few debriefing and assessment tools that can help you fine-tune your work toward creating a discipleship culture using the Building Blocks of Faith.
Learn how to use the four Building Blocks of Faith in your faith formation ministry planning process.
Three questions to help your church make sense of which of your former practices truly build faith, which you might need to let go, and which new practices you might welcome and embrace.
How do we embody Jesus in the nitty-gritty of our everyday life? The Building Blocks of Faith describe four spiritual needs everyone has, needs that are met in Christ.
Here’s a simple way to identify strengths and challenges in your church culture.
Here are three important things for ministry leaders to consider when planning post-pandemic ministry.
Here are four ways to think about post-pandemic faith formation in your congregation, plus resources to help.
Here are 3 resources that can help congregations rethink faith formation for both the empty nester crowd and those in their late adulthood.
A story of how one congregation used a decision making framework to help them find a bit of clarity for their decisions in a ministry world turned upside down.
We may not be able to provide much certainty for our congregations right now, but here’s a tool that could help provide a way to develop clarity in this time of high unpredictability.
Here are four upcoming cohort opportunities that might bless your congregation.
Here are stories of how two churches prioritized the goal of including children in Sunday morning worship and got creative in this uncertain time.
How does the church flourish in the context of a creator economy? It engages in creative experimentation, listening to the Holy Spirit’s leading while launching trial and error initiatives.
We are not alone in our questions and struggles.
Ministry leaders are exploring their church’s desire and their capacity to change. The following resources can help you and your teams reflect on both as you begin to imagine the next ministry season.
When a decision about the future must be made, but information about the future is scarce, what's a church council to do? Here is some advice for getting through this leadership challenge.
What does Christian faithfulness look like in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic?
Do you ever have moments when you think, “Thank you, Lord, for reminding me why I love this job!” Here’s the backstory to my most recent “Thank you” moment.