The Sunday School Struggle: What’s Flourishing, What’s Fading, and What’s in the Future? For many congregations, the “traditional” Sunday school of our childhoods is a thing of the past. Today, churches are doing Sunday School in a myriad of different ways and the...
Nurturing the Mental Health of Youth
Nurturing the Mental Health of Youth The adolescent mental health crisis has been at the forefront of national conversation, yet it continues to plague our local communities and congregations. The church has a unique opportunity to address the adolescent mental health crisis by allowing and equipping youth to rest in their identity as beloved children […]
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 […]
Presbyterian Women/Horizons Bible Study: Finding Resilience, Joy and Our Identity in Jesus Christ
Presbyterian Women/Horizons Bible Study: Finding Resilience, Joy and Our Identity in Jesus Christ Sometimes we take on more than we can accomplish. But, reconnecting to our spirituality is a path that offers us the ability to spring back into shape and to find our resilience. The 2025–2026 PW/Horizons Bible study author, Rhashell Hunter, will lead […]
Advocate Oct. 2024
Out of the Box Ideas For Lent
https://youtu.be/jEeLYUVG-LA Nine Out of the Box Ideas for Lent By: Lisa Witherspoon If your church is like mine, there are certain traditions that are repeated year after year, especially during significant liturgical seasons like Advent & Lent. Now, I’m all for tradition! It’s also nice to try something new once in a while, too, […]
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 […]