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The following workshops can be hosted live online via Zoom for your congregation at no cost to you. The workshops are highly interactive and allow for discussion and strategizing.
These five factors can determine how well kids deal with and recover from difficult life situations.
Our friends over at the RCA have gathered a number of videos, podcasts, articles, books and other resources about lament to help guide you and your congregations during this COVID-19 time.
In this episode, Cross country runner Dally Carlisle lives out his grandfather Edward’s legacy of hard work, Christian faith, and raising livestock on his family’s farm in Gallup, New Mexico.
Is your church discussing how and when to reopen in-person children's ministry? Find resources including an online roundtable, questions to consider, and people to contact.
It’s tidier to believe God plans everything that happens even if we cannot ever (or at least for now) know why. But maybe we are not supposed to have a tidy theology on such wild and wooly matters.
We look for accolades to prop us up, to make us feel better about ourselves, trying to prove that we really are someone of importance. But I have to ask: whose voice am I listening to?
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.
Leadership is not about the leader, but about the people they have the opportunity to serve.
Dwell at Home's 5 Way resources are perfect for busy families. As a church, pick one to focus on over 5 weeks to give parents simple goals to work toward each week.
How can we encourage each other to focus on what we hope for, and the One in whom our hope is rooted, rather than what we’re hoping against in these strange and uncertain times?
Maybe prayer, like Zoom, produces a longing in our bones for the day when we'll once again see face to face.
Faith Formation shares this report highlighting questions and observations about the content of the New City Catechism and about the curriculum content, pedagogy, and design.
Kids and families around North America may be sheltering in place, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t doing great things. Check out these five stories about real kids doing God’s work in the world during COVID-19.
A pastor I spoke with recently shared, “During this time of COVID, I believe the elderly will bounce back. They are resilient in their faith. I am not so sure, however, about our youth."
Children’s ministry leaders have the opportunity right now to pause and catch their breath—to conduct a self-assessment, as well as a ministry assessment. Here are a few questions to help guide your reflection.
Wondering how you might meaningfully include children during online worship on Pentecost Sunday and/or how to support families as they celebrate Pentecost at home? Check this out.
It took a virus to quiet the world. For one second, we are listening. Lord, help us to hear you.
Pay attention to the wide spectrum of mothering by including this video in your online worship service or by sharing it via social media.
Does a happy-all-the-time Christianity allow us to lament our losses? How do we support one another in difficult seasons?
Throughout this new video, Emma shows her heart for the hurting as she finds ways to show God’s love to those in bad times.
What if today you released all that you've been holding so tightly, and replaced it with this?
Kids Corner has added brand new Bible Story episodes! Check out David and Goliath, Jesus Calms the Storm, and other new stories for kid and families to enjoy.
Here are 4 things to consider as you talk about how to celebrate graduation and other milestones in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many of us haven't been taught how to express negative emotions when it comes to our faith. Fortunately the Bible gives us plenty of models to follow.