Faith Formation and Prayer
We hear from Debby Madden, APCE’s 2003 SUSTAIN Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.
Hope and Curiosity
The Advocate launches a 3-week series highlighting words of wisdom, hope, and curiosity from APCE’s 2023 annual award recipients. This week, we hear from Mary Marcotte,
Faith and Trust
Our faith may move mountains, but trust will get us out of the boat and draw us toward Jesus when nothing else makes sense.
Dear Mama
The Advocate reached out to leaders across the church inviting them to share with us, and with our readers, important lessons about faith formation. This week, we present the second blog in this series. “There’s no way I could pay you back, but my plan is to show you...
WWJD? HWLF!
I didn’t grow up going to church. My mom is Jewish. And to my dad, Christmas and Easter were enough. So, it took a while longer than the kids I would eventually join in youth group for me to understand what faith was, exactly. When I started going to church with a...
Simple Things: Young People Being Kind
In the summer of 2019, two young sisters set out to spread kindness around their small county in Kentucky. They created “Be Kind” yard signs and sold them to local neighbors and merchants who proudly display them in their front yards and businesses. Money raised by...Simple Things: A New Arena for Simpler Sundays
It’s Sunday morning and the youth Sunday school teachers are MIA. It’s Sunday morning and the children’s Sunday school teachers are accounted for, but no young people are to be found. It’s Sunday morning and traditional Sunday school has become a thing of the past. If...