Path to Peace with Creation: "Follow the Peace Path" Cards
Churches can extend learning with this deck of 52 Peace with Creation Cards, packed with ideas for families to do at home together. Whether a church has summer Sunday school or not, these cards are a great way to stay connected with families and provide parents and caregivers an easy and fun faith formation resource. Purchase one deck of cards for each family.
An Illustrated Invitation for Families draws all ages into conversation with biblical stories that show us what God is doing in the world and invite us to consider how to join in that work. It can be used as a companion to other Illustrated Invitation products or as a stand-alone resource for families.
Includes Family Activities, Illustrated Story Cards, and Coloring Pages
Summertime Family Faith Practices Calendar from Traci Smith
UPDATED Family Conversations for Living and Loving Prompts and Placemat
This four-page download contains one page of family conversation prompts, one reflection/journal page, and 13 question cards to take on the go.
Traci Smith offers a packet of digital/downloadable Mealtime Prayer Cards and Family Faith Activities Jar.
Traci Smith at Yale Divinity School talking about Empowering Parents to Practice Faith at Home.
This activity kit inspired by Let's Do Everything and Nothing inspires kids to think of others—interviewing a family member about their day or coloring a heartfelt sign to give to a friend—and all the joy that love brings to their world.
Each lesson contains a section for teens, kids, and littles and is backed by the latest academic research and the world’s wisdom traditions.
The Christian Reformed Church offers Family Faith Formation Toolkits - an enormous list of resources for encouraging faith formation at home.
Wendy Claire Barrie, author of Faith at Home, has a website that includes a study guide for the book, her blog, and links to additional resources.
Contemplative Bible Storytelling for Children & Grownups Alike
Hosted by Faith Formation, Open to Wonder is a podcast that helps us imagine together what faith looks like in our day-to-day lives by exploring all kinds of faith questions: big ones, small ones, weird ones, and hard-to-talk-about-in-church ones.
Here's a wonderful list of Inclusive Versions of the Prayer of Jesus. I don't know who compiled it, but most of the prayers are cited for use!
P.S. I would not use the title, 'The Prayer of Jesus': so far as we know, this was never a prayer Jesus prayed. This is the Prayer Jesus Taught Us, the prayer Jesus instructed his followers to pray.
The Ultimate Collection of Family Faith Formation Resources for Churches
“Every resource on the list belongs in your church library, whether that library is a dedicated room or simply a basket in a well-traveled hallway . . . although when I say ‘basket,’ I mean ‘laundry basket.’”