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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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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.
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.
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 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
While it’s important for kids to understand the arc of Scripture, it’s not always easy to communicate it to them! Faith Formation Ministries developed this short gospel summary for kids as a resource for use in Sunday or Wednesday night children’s ministry, in VBS, in preparation for communion classes, and in other settings.
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.
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.
January 10, 2018
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Spiritual Characteristics of Children and Teens
This helpful brochure from Faith Formation Ministries explores how children and teens of different ages experience God and grow in faith. A great resource for pastors, youth workers, teachers, and parents.
January 10, 2018
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Ten Ways U.S. Churches Can Welcome Immigrants
Immigrants today are a blessing to our congregations, communities, families, economy, and country. This resource shares ten ideas for showing hospitality and experiencing the blessings immigrants bring.
January 10, 2018
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Ten Ways to Do Justice
Seeking justice is a spiritual discipline — a tangible way for us to express our faith by obeying the commands to love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves. This resource shares 10 tips for North Americans who want to follow Christ in seeking justice today.
November 29, 2017
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Spiritual Characteristics of Teens Part Two - Webinar Recording
In part two of this webinar series, we look deeply into what makes teens "tick" spiritually and how that impacts them, their families, and the church's ministries.
November 14, 2017
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Ten Ways to Connect With Children and Teens in Your Church
It takes a village — the whole congregation — to nurture the faith of its young people. Here are ten ways to connect with young people and children.
November 7, 2017
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Asking the Big Question
The Big Question is a new four-session study that explores how the catechism’s Q&A 1 can shape our faith.
October 31, 2017
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Ten Ways to Be a Caring Deacon
This two-page resource from Faith Formation Ministries offers ten tips to help deacons care for others, as well as themselves, as they live out their calling and serve their congregation and community through their diaconal ministry.
October 26, 2017
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Ten Ways to Grow in Faith With People of All Abilities
If we fail to intentionally include and accommodate people, the church suffers just as much as the person excluded. Here are a few tips to help you think about working together in God’s growing kingdom.