Welcome to Lifelong Faith
Lifelong Faith Book
The mission of making disciples and forming faith for a lifetime can seem over-whelming. Leaders want to make lifelong faith formation a reality. They want to nurture, sustain, and deepen the Christian faith for a lifetime. What if we could identify the essential elements that make lifelong faith formation work—key elements that could guide decision-making and planning in every single church?
Lifelong Faith: Formation for All Ages and Generations presents seven elements for developing lifelong faith formation.
These are elements that every church can contextualize and customize to their size, location, and diversity of their people. Lifelong faith formation developed around these seven elements can transform the life of families, children, adolescents, adults, and the whole church. |
Insights & Practices Reports
This Fall we will be publishing the Insights & Practices from Research and Theory Series - exploring the latest research and thinking on forming faith with families and age groups, and proposing practical strategies for forming faith that reflect the current research and thinking. Each report explores:
Now available in the "Insights and Practices" section of the Lifelong Faith website:
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Resources to Guide You in Developing Lifelong Faith Formation
Goals for Maturing
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Intergenerational
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Family Faith FormationHybrid
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LifelongFaithTraining.com provides free video-based training developed by the Lifelong Faith Team of veteran faith formation leaders. Our goal is to equip leaders with the knowledge, practices, and skills for designing, leading, and organizing lifelong faith formation in their churches. Each video program is one hour in length, presented in multiple parts for easy viewing, and includes a "Resources" page with articles and design tools.
The videos are design to inform and equip leaders and teams to design and lead faith formation. The video programs are designed for "just in time" learning so that you and your team can watch a video presentation and use the tools to design programming. The videos can be used in a variety of ways: 1) For personal enrichment and on-your-own learning, 2) For training your team(s), 3) For preparation to design faith formation initiatives and programming, 4) For facilitating a course or workshop, and more. |
Training Programs & Presenters
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Learning Programs designed for Intergenerational & Family Faith Formation
All Resources Are Free for Church Use The Intergenerational Faith website provides dozens of learning programs on a variety of faith themes for churches to use in intergenerational and family faith formation programming. All churches have permission to download, print, and adapt the materials for their use. The learning session comes in a PDF and a Word file; handouts are in Word files.
The learning model for each of the sessions incorporates four movements.
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Intergenerational and Family Sessions
Christian Practices (10 sessions) The Creed and Christian Beliefs (6 sessions) Jesus and Discipleship (6 sessions) Justice, Peace, and Care for Creation (6 sessions) Moral Living (6 sessions) Prayer (6 sessions) Sacraments [Catholic] (6 sessions) |