infusing best practices of faith formation into your congregation
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Infusing Best Practices of Faith Formation into Your Congregation. New England Association of United Church Educators May 7-9, 2013. Workshop Outline. Overview of Best Practices Case Studies Small Groups Discussion. What is Faith Formation? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Infusing Best Practices of Faith Infusing Best Practices of Faith Formation into Your Formation into Your
CongregationCongregation
New England Association of United Church Educators
May 7-9, 2013
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Workshop Outline
0 Overview of Best Practices0 Case Studies0 Small Groups0 Discussion
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What is Faith Formation?0An engaged process of learning and practice integrated throughout all aspects of congregational and daily life
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Best Practices
General Approaches/Pedagogies:0 Faith formation is a lifelong
endeavor. 0 Faith formation in the 21st century
requires a spirit of adaptation to new challenges.
0 Faith formation addresses the diversity of people’s spiritual and religious needs.
0 Faith formation takes place in a diversity of settings in order for faith to be fully integrated into individuals’ lives and contexts.
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Best Practices
General Approaches/ Pedagogies (cont.):
0 Faith formation utilizes a variety of formats and technologies for learning and growing in faith.
0 Faith formation is both a formal and informal, an intentional and an unexpected, process.
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Best Practices
General Approaches/Pedagogies (cont.):
0 Faith formation requires intentional intergenerational activity through communities of practice.
0 The role of the Christian educator is not primarily to be a singular teacher or facilitator, but rather, a co-nurturer.
0 The role of the Christian educator is not to be a content creator, but rather, a content curator.
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Best Practices
Worship, Mission, Discipleship:0 There is a strong connection between a congregation’s
faith formation and its worship. 0 The use of drama, art, and music in faith formation has a
profound impact on individuals and congregations. 0 Service and mission provide profound opportunities for
conversation and on-going faith formation.0 Faith formation and education, when understood within
the broader context of discipleship, creates a more holistic understanding of the task of this ministry.
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Best Practices
Children, Youth, Young Adults, and Families:0 Intergenerational faith formation—bringing all age
groups together to learn about their faith—is an effective way to accomplish the goals of lifelong faith formation.
0 Congregations in which children, youth, and young adults are active participants and leaders in the whole life of the church are communities of vital faith formation.
0 The role of the home is critical to faith formation.
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Best Practices
Children, Youth, Young Adults, and Families (cont.):
0 Vital formational children’s ministry is about story, ritual, and relationship.
0 Vital youth faith formation makes connections between a personal God, youths’ communal concerns, and their role and agency in their own lives and in world.
0 Faith formation for young adults is different than faith formation for older adults.
0 Vital faith formation for children, youth, and young adults occurs when adults engage their own faith in meaningful ways and serve as models for them.
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First Congregational Church Battle Creek, MI
A “Spiritual Playground”http://
www.fccbc.org/pdf/SmallGroups/SM-Faith%20Formation.pdf
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McFarland UCCMcFarland, WI
“Messy Church”
http://www.mcfarlanducc.org
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https://www.facebook.com/
media/set/?set=a.10151215495860960.506767.187599905959&ty
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Kirkwood UCCAtlanta, GA
“The City”www.kirkwooducc.c
om
http://www.onthecity.org/
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Small Group Discussions
0What one or two “best practices” speak to you or excite you the most?
0How/where might you begin to incorporate these practices in your own ministry context?
0What are some indicators of what “success” might look like with regard to your identified best practices?
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Contact:
Rev. Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi, Ph.D.
Minister for Christian Faith Formation Research
Congregational Vitality and Discipleship Team, Local Church Ministries
1-866-822-8224 ext. 3866