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How does your ministry, youth group, or congregation as a whole measure the faith formative impact of the events you plan? Here are a few tips to consider incorporating before, during, and after an event.
Interested in helping families with children form faith while having fun? Get inspired with this summer bucket list of ideas.
Looking for new ways to equip parents and kids to grow in faith at home? Check out Everyday Family Faith.
Every resource on the list belongs in your church library, whether that library is a dedicated room or simply a basket in a well-traveled hallway. Additionally, many of these resources belong in the homes of everyone with children in their life.
If you’re a children’s ministry leader and are looking for new ideas for your ministry or ways to connect with other leaders, check out this Children’s Ministry Newsletter from Faith Formation Ministries.
Baptism provides God’s big family with a beautiful opportunity to say, “Welcome to the family!” to the one being baptized. Use these easily adaptable ideas to help your church do that with arms open wide.
A new video series is available featuring Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff, historian George Marsden, and theologian/philosopher Richard Mouw.
Lent begins on March 6. Get this Lenten devotional series from Today in your email inbox or from this downloadable pdf.
Kids Corner has created an easy-to-use weekly family devotional to help you and your children walk through Lent together.
This resource gives parents ten affirming tips for beginning a journey of family faith formation in everyday life.
This resource gives your church fresh ideas for helping faith grow in people age 60-plus.
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.
Discover ten ways your congregation can actively love, support, and include older members of the body of Christ.
Have you ever ended a family Christmas celebration and realized you’d skipped telling the story you’d gathered to celebrate? Start a new tradition this year by using one of these meaningful and fun intergenerational storytelling ideas.
Our newest Bible study, “The Magi: Unexpected Guests,” takes a deep look at Matthew 2:1-12. We chose this passage in part because it highlights the idea that Jesus is the savior for ALL people.
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.
You're invited to download (for FREE!) the Advent section of the popular intergenerational prayer book Teach Us to Pray.
How do you read the gospels? Here's my book review of Jonathan Pennington's book, Reading the Gospels Wisely.
In sharp contrast to the tone of the news, the “Our Only Comfort” devotional series helps us face trouble with firm confidence in Christ’s promise to be with us “always, to the very end of the age” (Matthew 28:20b).
Community CRC in Kitchener has developed a 5-week intergenerational curriculum that studies the history and decisions of the Synod of Dort. We humbly offer this study for churches to try.
During this Advent season, World Renew and the Office of Social Justice invite you, through our email devotions, to reflect on patiently waiting on the Lord’s work in the midst of difficulty and despair.
Busy. Overwhelmed. Chaotic. These are the words I hear when I ask people to describe today’s families. Because of shifts in our society, the church must also shift our thinking. Faith Formation wants to help!
Imagine what might happen if you gave people the actual tools they could use to celebrate advent.
The prompts in this daily calendar provide an easy way to practice gratitude while nurturing faith.
In this video, Syd Hielema and Ron deVries of Faith Formation Ministries spend some time looking at the why’s and how’s of experiencing true 'soul care' in our lives.