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How Your Church Can Help Build Resilience in Your Children and Teens
Children and teens are suffering from grief and anxiety. Here are some resources your congregation can use to help them build resilience.
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October 22, 2021
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Join Faith Formation Ministries Around the Table
The team at Faith Formation Ministries wants to support you in today’s challenges and opportunities in various contexts around North America.
September 22, 2021
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Intergenerational: The Ministry Shift That Changes Everything
There’s more interest than ever in truly intergenerational ministry—people of all ages learning, growing, serving, and worshiping together.
July 13, 2021
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Zoom Practices I Hope We Keep in the Return to In-Person Worship
While it’s been hard being apart, there are some things about "Zoom church" we might want to hang on to.
July 13, 2021
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3 Questions to Ask Upon Returning to In-Person Worship
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.
June 22, 2021
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Creative Prayer Resources for Kids and Teens
Here are 4 resources that can help parents, caregivers, and leaders of children and youth encourage young people to explore prayer.
May 14, 2021
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Pastors: Please, Think of the Children
4 important ways pastors can support the faith formation of children who will grow into engaged teens and young adults.
May 11, 2021
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4 Steps for Launching a New Ministry Initiative
Are you looking at launching new initiatives, especially post-Covid? If so, here are four basic steps for launching any program or initiative well.
May 7, 2021
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Ideas for Robust Debrief and Ministry Reflection
Great tips for assessing whether your ministries and initiatives are really doing what you hoped they would.
April 22, 2021
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Roadmap to Post-Pandemic Recovery: Coming in for a Safe Landing (Part 2)
Here are three important things for ministry leaders to consider when planning post-pandemic ministry.
April 5, 2021
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Roadmap to Post-Pandemic Recovery: Faith Formation Planning for the Future (Part 1)
Here are four ways to think about post-pandemic faith formation in your congregation, plus resources to help.
February 26, 2021
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Growing With: Parenting Adult Children
Here are 4 ways to grow with emerging adults (in a world that is vastly different from the world in which their parents came of age).
January 24, 2021
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Ministry to and With People in the Third Third of Life
Here are 3 resources that can help congregations rethink faith formation for both the empty nester crowd and those in their late adulthood.
November 12, 2020
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Healthy Remembering and Resilience: How the Past Can Lead to a Hopeful Future
Individuals and churches in the last third of their lifetime can both benefit from a healthy evaluation of the past.
October 27, 2020
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Older Adults and Resilient Faith: Three False Narratives and an Invitation
Folks in the “third third of life” need their church fellowship to both support and even boost their resilience.
September 22, 2020
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Why Your Church Needs to Be Part of a Cohort Team Now More Than Ever
Here are four upcoming cohort opportunities that might bless your congregation.
September 21, 2020
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The Kids Are Not Fine: Engaging the Pandemic Generation
Tweens, teens, and emerging adults are struggling during COVID-19. Here are some ways your church can help.
September 3, 2020
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How Gathering Online Can Help Your Church Write a New Narrative for Faith Formation
The COVID-19 pandemic presents challenges for church gatherings. But what if it is also presenting us with new opportunities for faith formation?
July 31, 2020
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Collaborating in Humility
Collaboration can be a doorway to hopefulness when individuals or congregations find themselves stuck.
June 19, 2020
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Leaning into Humility: A Prayer
Whether we’re navigating pandemic protocols or joining discussions about race and reconciliation, it would be less than wise for any one person to say they have all the answers.
May 22, 2020
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When Change Is Thrust Upon Us: 3 Models for Navigating New Terrain
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.
April 24, 2020
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Celebrating Life’s Milestones in an Upside-Down World
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.
March 30, 2020
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Why Now Is the Best Time for Faith Formation Triage
Reassessing faith formation needs in personal faiths, families, and congregations during COVID-19.
January 16, 2020
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Coaching Corner: Turning Committee Work Into New Church Patterns
Here's how one church insured that new faith formation initiatives would live on past their committee work.
December 17, 2019
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"Praygrounds" and Intergenerational Worship
Read how congregations are wrestling with how best to engage people of all ages and all learning styles in their worship services.