Description
This Around the Table workshop invites faith leaders to explore how intentional storytelling and everyday spiritual practices can deepen both personal and faith formation of children and youth in households. Participants will learn the difference between Christian formation and Christian education and focus on how to integrate biblical storytelling, cultural heritage, and practical routines into daily life. Participants will discover how spiritual disciplines—like sabbath observance, prayer, and hospitality—can be woven together with storytelling traditions, creating a cohesive, intergenerational approach to fostering Christian identity with young people. By learning how to connect personal experiences with Scripture and faith heritage, leaders will gain tools to empower families, grandparents, caregivers, and the wider faith community to pass down a living, relatable faith to the next generation. Come and learn more about the Around the Table Cohort Initiative and how your church can join other leaders to cultivate Christian faith.
Workshop Leader: Neema Cyrus-Franklin
Neema Cyrus-Franklin is the Program Coordinator for the Office of Christian Formation in the PCUSA where she leads the Around the Table Initiative, supporting faith formation in households. Trained as an ICF coach, somatic attachment practitioner, trauma sensitive yoga instructor and will complete a 900-hour certification in holistic yoga therapy in fall of 2025.
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