Help your people practice faith all week long, not just on Sunday.
Taking Faith Home is a weekly faith-at-home resource that congregations can use to support simple, sustainable spiritual practices in everyday life. Through reproducible devotional inserts rooted in Scripture, prayer, and conversation, Taking Faith Home helps households and individuals carry worship into their homes, workplaces, and communities.
What is Taking Faith Home?
Taking Faith Home is a set of weekly devotional guides that churches can share in worship and beyond. Each guide is designed to work as:
- A church bulletin insert
- A take-home devotional for families and individuals
- A simple tool for intergenerational faith formation
Every week, Taking Faith Home invites people into manageable household faith practices—praying together, reading Scripture, talking about life’s highs and lows, and serving others in Jesus’ name.
How Taking Faith Home works
Taking Faith Home follows a simple rhythm:
- You share the weekly guide
Include it in your worship bulletin, hand it out on Sunday, email it, or post it in a members-only online space. - Households and individuals use it during the week
The resource offers easy, flexible faith practices that fit around meals, bedtime, commutes, and everyday routines. - Faith practices become part of daily life
Over time, people build a habit of weekly faith practices that connect Sunday worship with Monday–Saturday living.
Taking Faith Home is designed to be easy to implement for leaders and doable for busy households.
Why faith at home matters
Congregational life is important, but most of our lives are lived away from the church building. Taking Faith Home helps your congregation:
- Encourage family faith formation in real-life settings
- Offer a consistent pattern of Scripture, prayer, and conversation
- Support people who may feel unsure about how to pray or read the Bible at home
- Bring generations together around a shared weekly theme
- Equip leaders with a ready-to-use congregational faith formation tool
Whether your congregation is large or small, Taking Faith Home provides a simple way to say, “Faith isn’t just for Sunday—it’s for every day.”
What’s inside a weekly Taking Faith Home guide
Each weekly guide is designed as a printable devotional insert that can be used in worship and at home. A typical Taking Faith Home guide includes:
- A theme statement that captures the week’s focus
- A key Bible verse
- Suggested daily readings to explore Scripture throughout the week
- Prayers and blessings for home and church
- A simple milestone-sharing moment that invites people to share “highs and lows”
- Practical examples of the Four Key Faith Practices:
- Caring conversations
- Devotions and Bible reading
- Service
- Rituals and traditions
- Leader tools included: A User Guide and leader tips to help you introduce and implement Taking Faith Home in your congregation.
Each guide supports a daily rhythm of faith practices across the week; households and groups simply pick what fits their day.
Current editions and formats
Taking Faith Home is available as a digital download that congregations can reproduce according to their license. Editions are based on the Revised Common Lectionary and are offered as a 12-month Church Year set, a 9-month Program Year set, individual quarters (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall), and by liturgical season (Advent, Lent).
Taking Faith Home: Church Year
Our current Church Year edition:
- Follows the Revised Common Lectionary, Year A
- The Full Church Year provides a complete set of weekly guides for the 2025–2026 church year: Advent 1 (2025) through Christ the King Sunday (2026)
- Also available as a Partial Year and by individual quarters. See the product page for the options and date breakdowns.
- Delivered as downloadable, print-ready files (color and black & white)
- Includes helpful leader tools and reference sheets
Taking Faith Home: Program Year
Our Program Year editions:
- Are school-year-friendly sets designed for typical fall–spring ministry rhythms
- Follows the Revised Common Lectionary
- Aligns with our Program Year schedule for RCL Mini Lessons and Cross+Gen Education curricula
- Currently available by individual quarters for Year A (2026) and full program year and individual quarters for Years A & B (2026-2027). See the product pages for options and date breakdowns.
- Delivered as downloadable, print-ready files (color and black & white)
- Includes helpful leader tools and reference sheets
- Summer quarters (2026 or 2027) are not included, but can be purchased separately
Since we are adding Taking Faith Home midway through our winter quarter, we will not offer a “full” program year for the 2025-2026 program year. That is beginning with the 2026-2027 program year!
How congregations use Taking Faith Home
Churches use Taking Faith Home in many different ministries. Here are some common suggestions:
- Print as a weekly devotional insert in the bulletin to take home
- Make available at entrances, welcome centers, and information tables
- Reference in sermons or children’s messages as a way to “continue the story at home”
- Send home from Sunday school, youth group, or intergenerational events
- Pair with milestones like baptism, confirmation, or first Bible celebrations
- Use as a simple follow-up after retreats or special Sundays
- Include in mailings to homebound members or those in care facilities
- Share with college students or those living at a distance
- Use as a gentle devotional tool in hospital or nursing home visits
- Use as a simple weekly discussion guide for small groups or ministry teams
- Provide a simple opening or closing pattern for council, committee, or staff meetings
- Read the theme + verse at the table (or in the car) and ask one question
- Choose one practice for the day—prayer, blessing, or a simple act of service
- Use the weekly prayers/blessings at bedtime
- Create a 10-20 minute devotional time with some or all of the provided elements: prayer, caring conversation, daily Bible reading, ritual, and blessing
Because Taking Faith Home is flexible, you can start in one area and expand use as your congregation becomes familiar with it.
Build a Faith Formation Bundle
Taking Faith Home works even better alongside other resources that support worship, learning, and faith practices. Here are some related resources that pair well with Taking Faith Home (Program Year):
Living the Word: Cross+Gen Education (RCL 2025–2026)
A full-year intergenerational faith formation resource that follows the same Revised Common Lectionary schedule. Use it for all-ages education or intergenerational gatherings, and pair it with Taking Faith Home so households can continue the theme at home.
Living the Word: Kids Mini Lessons (RCL 2025–2026)
Short, engaging kids’ lessons that track with the Revised Common Lectionary. Ideal as a short, flexible Sunday school option. Combine these mini lessons with Taking Faith Home to connect what kids experience at church with what happens at home.
Learning Together series (e.g., Learning Together: Travelers)
Themed units designed for all-ages learning together for VBS, congregational events, and more. Key themes include immigrants and refugees in the Bible, justice, creation, biblical heroes, and more. Learning Together units are flexible and can be used over a few days or weeks. Families can learn and grow in faith together, complementing the family faith formation of Taking Faith Home.
Spirit & Truth: Teaching Kids the Heart of Worship
A curriculum that helps children understand worship, the church year, and the meaning behind what we do in worship. Pairing this with Taking Faith Home allows kids and families to connect what they do in worship with how they practice faith at home.
If your congregation follows the Narrative Lectionary, you can still support weekly faith practices with parallel resources:
Living the Word: Sharing God’s Story @ Home (NL)
A weekly faith-at-home resource for congregations using the Narrative Lectionary. Similar in form and purpose to Taking Faith Home, this tool connects the lectionary story with everyday life in households.
Living the Word: Kids Mini-Lessons (NL)
Narrative Lectionary mini-lessons for children (PK–6th) with flexible activities tied to the weekly Bible story. Explore all of our Living the Word (NL) resources to coordinate worship, learning, and home for all ages.
FAQ: Getting started with Taking Faith Home
Is Taking Faith Home only for families with children?
No. Taking Faith Home is designed for all kinds of households—families with children or teens, couples, roommates, and people who live alone. It also works well in small groups and leadership settings.
Do we need special training to use this faith-at-home resource?
No special training is required. Each guide is written in everyday language, so anyone can use it. Leader tips and a user’s guide are provided in the download to help you introduce and integrate the resource.
How do we share the weekly guides?
Most congregations print the guides as a church bulletin insert and also share them digitally by email or in a members-only online space. Because the resource is reproducible (within the license terms), you can use the format that best fits your context.
What if our congregation is new to faith-at-home practices?
Taking Faith Home is a gentle, low-pressure way to start. You can introduce it in worship, explain the pattern briefly, and invite households to try one or two suggestions each week. Over time, the pattern becomes familiar, and more people participate.