Are you looking for ways to keep informed on the best thinking and practices in faith formation across the whole life span? Are you looking for practical strategies for improving and enhancing faith formation in your church?
Lifelong Faith can help! Designed for pastors, church staff, and faith formation leadership, Lifelong Faith provides the best thinking and practice in Christian lifelong faith formation in churches and homes. Each issue focuses on a particular aspect of lifelong faith formation and includes five-six major articles by national experts, book reviews, and practical strategies and program models that you can use to enrich your leadership and enhance faith formation.
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- "Being a Child, Becoming Christian" by Karen Marie Yust, a national leader in children’s spirituality and faith formation and professor at Union Theological Seminary/PSCE in Richmond, VA, provides wise insights into how to envision, design and conduct faith formation for infants and toddlers, preschoolers, younger elementary age children, and older elementary age children. She writes, "At every age and stage of childhood, girls and boys need adults in their lives who will encourage them to notice and respond to God’s presence and activity in the world. Children rely on parents and religious leaders to introduce them to the stories of their faith tradition and to guide them in exploring the connections between ancient tales of God’s relationship with the world and the ordinary events of their contemporary lives. What they need most from us are not definitive answers to faith questions, but spiritual tools they can use to build and interpret their own relationships with God."
- "Best Practices in Adolescent Faith Formation" is one article from a LifelongFaith Associates research project to explore and report on research into the best practices in age group, family, and intergenerational faith formation. "Best practices" refer to the most effective ways—methods, processes, or techniques—to conduct faith formation. Each article in Volume 1.3/4 reports the research findings, identifies the best practices, offers practical suggestions for faith formation, includes a planning tool for reflecting on the practices and charting directions for growth, and provides a list of selected resources on the best practices. This issue has been used by church staffs, leadership teams, and faith formation leaders to plan, enhance, expand, and evaluate faith formation.
- "Faith Formation for Every Adult in Your Church—It’s Possible Today!" by John Roberto presents four principles and a process for developing an "Adult Faith Formation Learning Resource System" as a way to provide faith formation for every adult in a church. It provides a way for every church to addresses the wide diversity of interests, religious and spiritual needs, and life tasks and situations of today’s adults by utilizing the life of the church community; the variety of excellent print, audio, and visual resources; the variety of learning models; and the new digital and online technologies.
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