Aug 19, 2025 |
Description An article in 2024 by Mark Yoder stated that 70% of youth leave the church after graduation. Programs in youth ministry that are intergenerational help youth feel connected to all generations within the church and without. This connectivity helps sustain...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description There are times in our professional lives when we find ourselves in the in-between times. . .a time between one ministry leader and the next. Many times the expectations for this time are on maintenance. . . doing what has always been done until the next...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description Is your church exploring how to better welcome and include neurodivergent children—but unsure how to train your volunteers effectively? Have you ever found yourself asking, “How can I best equip our Sunday School teachers for inclusive ministry?” This...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description What are the essential components for nurturing relevant, dynamic, mature faith that sustains us throughout all of life? How do we construct engaging educational ministries that foster faithful living and deeper discipleship? Whether we are new or seasoned...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description Exhaustion – are you feeling it? One more thing? Are you kidding me? As practitioners of faith and resurrection hope we ground ourselves in an inexhaustible God. Why is it then we feel so exhausted? This workshop is designed as practical hope for...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description An invitation to revitalize your spirits, deepen your faith and set aside for a while ways of being that restrict the fullness of life to actively embrace and feast upon the rich spiritual nourishment available to us. We’ll dust off familiar faith language...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description Sand tray is a practice that uses simple, tangible objects (a box, sand, small figures) to create space for exploring our intangible inner-world (emotions, memories, and spiritual wrestlings). This reflective method uses symbolic imagery to help make clear...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description If we love one another as Jesus instructed his disciples, we don’t let one another go hungry, live without safe housing, suffer from lack of health care, or languish without educational or work opportunities. Instead, as loving kin, we embrace our biblical...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description As younger generations move away from traditional church structures, many churches are rethinking their role in the lives of young people. Sociologists describe “third places” as essential gathering spaces beyond home (first place) and school/work (second...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description “Won’t you be my neighbor?” is more than a kind invitation—it’s a theological call to love God, self, and others by creating spaces of belonging. In classrooms, group spaces, youth rooms, and worship spaces, we are surrounded by neighbors of all ages with...
