Oregon Health and Science University defines the 6 guiding principles of trauma informed care. This site is focused on health care professionals but can be applicable for faith formation leaders. Understanding, recognizing, and responding to trauma are some of the...
Post Pandemic Pondering and Planning
Post Pandemic Pondering and Planning In Spanish In Korean
Highlighting AE Workshops: From Being an Ally to a Co-Conspirator
To share ideas with others who desire to live in a more just and equitable world and explore how the principles of community organizing–listening and building relationships–can give us tools for speaking and acting and risk, in the words of John Lewis “getting into good trouble.”
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 friend in middle […]
Our Cloud of Witnesses
By Nancy Diaz As I sat and listened to APCE’s 2022 Annual Event speaker talk about our personal cloud of witnesses, I remembered those who took part in my own faith formation, los ancianos de la iglesia, the elders of the church. These were hard working, blue-collared, many newly immigrated or second generation Mexican-Americans who […]
Five Favourite Web-Based Resources for Faith Formation
five favourite web-based resources for faith formation
A Simple Neighborly Project
Members of Faith Presbyterian Church of Indian Land, SC, sought to be good global citizens. They looked for ways to be actively involved in addressing the environmental crisis in the world on a scale that allowed them to make a difference. They found a way to put their faith, their energy, and their neighborly connections […]
Living Water The Sacraments from a Child’s Perspective
Workshop from APCE Annual Event 2024. In Hebrews 12 we read that faith is a lifelong race. Come explore the traditional meaning of the sacraments and how, putting those theological understandings into language children can understand, can create lifelong disciples....
Children and Anti-Racism Toolkit
Children and Anti-Racism
Seeking to be Faithful Together: Guidelines for Presbyterians in Times of Disagreement
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