Dec 13, 2023 |
You won’t want to miss the SCRAPCE Fall Event – with David Lamotte! The theme is “Stumbling Toward the Light Changing the World” Join us at Austin Seminary from Sept 30 – Oct 2, 2024 – make sure to mark your calendars now! Stumbling...
May 31, 2023 |
Join with fellow educators as Tori Smit, Regional Minister for Faith Formation Synod of Central, Northeastern Ontario and Bermuda, offers tips, insights and tools on choosing curriculum fitting for your time and space in your ministry! You will leave this roundtable...
Mar 27, 2023 |
Synod School is a wonderful week of learning, fellowship and fun in a Christian community held annually the last full week of July. It is held every summer at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, by the Synod of Lakes and Prairies. For more information,...
Oct 25, 2022 |
SCRAPCE Fall 2023 Event – September 25-27 SCRAPCE Fall Gathering – Intergenerational Worship Shifting from Many Ages in Worship to Worship for All Ages · Learning from soft space gone wrong · Reimagining intergenerational ministry · ...
Sep 24, 2018 |
By: Jocelyn (J.C.) Cadwallader Throughout history, Jesus—through the people of God—has provided safe haven to those vulnerable under the laws and customs of the time. In the years before the American Civil War, churches provided safety for enslaved people seeking...
Apr 10, 2016 |
By: Lynne Baab After church on Sunday, a family prays together for the upcoming week. A small group sets aside a day to fast and pray for one of their members who has cancer. A congregation buys copies of a Lenten devotional so everyone can spend time each day reading...
Apr 1, 2014 |
By: Newell Krogmann We live in a changing world. We have church websites, instant access to information via the Internet, smart phones, text messaging, Facebook, the ability to easily project words and images as we do Christian education and as we worship. The list...
Apr 1, 2014 |
By: Derek Atkins If all the recent articles, books, blogs, and statistical studies are right, around two-thirds of the teens in our congregations are going to disconnect with the life of the church, and maybe even their Christian faith, as they make their way through...