Wonder of Worship: Listening to a Diversity of Voices about Intergenerational Worship Wonder of Worship has completed its first year of the five year, Lilly Endowment funded grant regarding nurturing children through worship and prayer. We’ve done a lot of listening...
New Member An Intergenerational Approach
New Members…An Intergenerational Approach When a new family comes into our faith community, we typically invite the adults(parents) to a New Members class. There they learn all about our faith community and being Presbyterian. Yet, when youth and children come into faith communities, we send them off to Sunday school, Youth group, or Mid-week programming […]
Pop Culture Faith: Teaching the Gospel through TV and Film
Pop Culture Faith: Teaching the Gospel through TV and Film Pop culture influences the clothes we wear, the music we listen to, the attitudes we hold, and even the language we use. In fact, the average American spends two hours per day consuming digital media! Yet church educators are often unsure how to leverage television […]
Family Worship: A Recipe for Sunday Morning
Family Worship: A Recipe for Sunday Morning Is your Sunday School hour for children and families thriving or dying? How involved and enthusiastic are your children and families about your regular worship services? During COVID, we took the opportunity for change to begin a new program that would reach more children and families who wanted […]
Advocate Oct. 2024
Create a Safety Plan for Your Church from CEN of the ELCA
In 2018, The Christian Education Network of the ELCA presented a series of workshops around the country called “How to Create a Safety Plan for Your Church.” Here are a series of videos to walk you through creating your own safety plan for your church in your location. The templates and information you need is […]
Advocate Podcast Recommendation List
Podcast Recommendation List from Facebook crowd sourcing, this was posted in the APCE Advocate Issue No. 2. APCE Advocate Podcast Resource
Post Pandemic Pondering and Planning
Post Pandemic Pondering and Planning In Spanish In Korean
Lent Resources 2024
Educators are always on the hunt for new resources. The work of curating and creating is never done, and the next liturgical calendar day or special worship or event is always around the corner. So often it feels overwhelming to even begin to research reformed, INFORMED resources for the church year! In order to not […]
Holy Week and Easter Remote Ministry: Articles
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