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What if we teach children with their parents or caregivers? Family-focused, intergenerational learning offers a variety of positive benefits for all. Family Sunday School Intergenerational learning offers so many benefits for all ages: strengthening faith, nurturing community, passing on traditions, … Continue reading
Your program year has begun. What tone did you set for this year? Do you have plans for your next celebration? How can you build on the momentum you have set? Evaluating What Happened I am a “list” person. I … Continue reading
What is the beginning of your program year called? Rally Day, Celebration, or Gathering Sunday? Does it include all your target audience? How does it describe what is happening? Celebrating the beginning of the program year can set the tone … Continue reading
For the last two posts and the next one, I am reflecting on a blog series called “What Is Faith Formation?” I wrote back in 2019. Partly, this is because it’s an important topic that is always relevant to our … Continue reading
What are volunteers worth? How do you “pay” them? Do you encourage, appreciate, and recognize each volunteer? Share your ideas in the comments section. Paying Our Volunteers? Value? Church volunteers serve our faith communities and are essential to a healthy, … Continue reading
Care for Creation VBS (and More) I am very excited to announce a NEW product for both elementary-age and intergenerational ministry: Learning Together: Created to Care! Learning Together is a series of five-lesson units on a variety of topics (seven … Continue reading
Recruiting and retaining volunteers is an ongoing process in our faith communities. What are the best strategies for recruiting? How can we support them and help them stay? Once upon a Time Once upon a time a long time ago, … Continue reading
I am thrilled to announce a NEW product for elementary-age Sunday school! Most of our current products (aside from our Learning Together series) are designed to follow a worship lectionary, either the Narrative Lectionary or the Revised Common Lectionary. Our … Continue reading
Learning Together—Spirit & Truth Publishing’s newest faith formation curriculum—will be a series of independent, thematic units intended for intergenerational classes, rotation or traditional multi-age Sunday school, and even Vacation Bible School! Announcing Learning Together! I am excited to announce that … Continue reading