Faith Formation: Children's Ministry

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Building school wide Climate & Culture of Caring & Compassion
by teaching social emotional intelligence and life skills

• Student driven Conflict Resolution
• Classroom and school wide Community Building
• Awareness of respectful relationship interactions and interpersonal affect
• Preventative Restorative Justice Practice
• Classroom Management tool

Laura Stephens-Reed, in the CBF Blog, underscores Why Bringing in Young Families is not a Magic [Cure] for Your Congregation, as she underscores some key do's and don'ts with regard to welcoming young adults and young families.

Nurturing Young Faith created this report after surveying numerous global, interdenominational congregations.

Read the report. Take the new survey. Participate and learn how to move into what's possible.

 Traci Smith at Yale Divinity School talking about Empowering Parents to Practice Faith at Home.

Cathy’s Music is music where faith and fun meet. Your children will sing about the promises of God and the stories of God’s people and have fun at the same time.

Kid-friendly Christian songs that make a director’s job easy!

Real Kids Real Faith is reimagining how children’s spirituality looks, sounds, and acts in this moment.

John Roberto from Lifelong Faith shared a Reimagining Faith Formation handout - which Traci Smith calls, 'A Handout Worth Looking At'. It offers a great overview of considerations for 21st century faith formation in most settings, focusing on intergenerational and age-appropriate settings, family faith at home, 'missional faith' among those who are not church-affiliated, and online and digital faith formation.

By Sam Rainer, Op-ed Contributor | Wednesday, July 27, 2022

This intergenerational story shows readers that postcard materials hide everywhere--from cereal boxes to garden weeds--and includes an easy DIY project sure to spread kindness right off the page.

Download the free Postcard Project guide to help kids make their own unique postcard to send to a loved one.