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New Approaches in Evangelization Archdiocese of Hartford. John Roberto LifelongFaith Associates [email protected] [email protected]. Workshop Topics. Exploring the Driving Forces Affecting Evangelization & Faith Formation Today - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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New Approaches in Evangelization
Archdiocese of HartfordJohn RobertoLifelongFaith Associates
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Workshop Topics1. Exploring the Driving Forces
Affecting Evangelization & Faith Formation Today
2. Envisioning Evangelization & Faith Formation through Four Scenarios
3. Approaches for Using the Four Scenarios
4. Designing New Initiatives to Address the Religious and Spiritual Needs of People Today
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Lifelong Faith Resources
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www.faithformation2020.net
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www.faithformationlearningexchange.net
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Driving Forces
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Driving Forces: Outside-In Thinking
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Driving Forces
1. Declining number of Christians & growing number with no religious affiliation 15% of all Americans claim no
religious affiliation 25% of all 18-29 year 10% drop in the number of
Christians The challenge to Christianity in the
U.S. does not come from other religions but from a rejection of all forms of organized religion.
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Driving Forces
2. Increasing number of people becoming more “Spiritual” and less “Religious” Today, 18% of 18-39 year olds
say that are “spiritual, but not religious” compared to only 11% a decade ago.
Religious tinkering & developing a religious or spiritual identity
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Driving Forces
3. Declining Participation in Churches Example: Catholic Church in USA Steady erosion in Mass attendance:
44% (1987) --- 37% (1999) --- 33% (2005)CARA reports only 22% in 2010 (weekly)
Pre-Vatican II (before 1940): 60% Vatican II (1941-60): 35% Post-Vatican II (Gen X 1960-79): 26% Post-Vatican II (Millennial 1980-99): 15%
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Driving Forces
Marrying later and beginning families later
Dramatic decline in the number of marriages in the Church▪ 50% decline in the past 20 years▪ 33% of Post-Vatican II Catholics
marry outside the Church Increase in interfaith marriages
▪ 40% among Post-Vatican II generation▪ 50% of all non-Latino marriages
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Driving Forces
The number of Catholic sacramental marriages in the Archdiocese of San Francisco dropped 47 percent from 1990 to 2010, with 1,985 marriages in 1990 falling to 1,060 marriages 20 years later.
Over the same period the number of Catholics in the archdiocese grew from 395,000 to 444,008.
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Driving Forces
Participation Trends in the Catholic Church 2001-2010
(Using figures from the Official Catholic Directory)
2001 2008 2010Catholic population 65.3 million 68.1 68.5Parishes 19,496 18,674 17,958Marriages 257,000 192,000 - Infant Baptisms 1 million 887,000 857,410Adult Baptisms 162,000 124,000 119,00First Communions 893,000 822,000 - Confirmations 629,000 622,000 - Children (parish) 3.5 million 3.1 million 3.1 millionTeens (parish) 767,000 722,000 689,552Grade school 2 million 1.6 million 1.5 millionHS students 682,000 674,380 611,723
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Driving Forces
4. Increasing Diversity & Pluralism in U.S. Society Diversity of ethnic cultures and
nationalities No single authority exercises
supremacy; no single belief or ideology dominations
Tapestry of religious and spiritual alternatives and choices
Crisscrossing religious boundaries “Spiritual tinkerers”
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Driving Forces
5. Influence of Individualism on Christian Identity and Community Religious identity is more
autonomous and deliberate today.
Decline in the perceived necessity of communal or institutional structures as constituent of religious identity.
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Driving Forces
6. Changing Structures & Patterns of Family Life in the U.S. Delaying marriage Having fewer children and later in
life Decreasing number of children in
two-parent households Increasing number of unmarried
couples living together Increasing time caring for children
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Driving Forces
7. Declining Family Religious Socialization Parent Influence: The single most
important social influence on the religious and spiritual lives of adolescents is their parents.
Embedded Family Religious Practices: Effective religious socialization comes about through specific religious activities that are firmly intertwined with the daily habits of family life.
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Driving Forces
7 ½. Aging Baby Boomers On Jan. 1, 2011, the oldest Baby Boomers will
turn 65. Every day for the next 19 years, about 10,000 more will cross that threshold.
By 2030, when all Baby Boomers will have turned 65, fully 18% of the nation’s population will be at least that age (13% today)
We are witnessing the emergence of a new stage of life between adult midlife–typically focused on career and child-rearing–and old age, traditionally marked by increasing frailty and decline. This new stage of life spans several decades and is characterized by generally good health, relative financial stability, and an active, engaged lifestyle.
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Driving Forces
8. Increasing Impact of Digital Media & Web Technologies 93% of teens & young adults are
online “Computer in your pocket” -
increasing mobile access - iPhone 8-18 year olds spend on average
7½ hours a day with media
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YouVersion Bible App
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Four Scenarios
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4 Scenarios
Scenarios are built around critical uncertainties about the external environment. That is, the stories are based on different outcomes of a few key uncertainties that are both most important to the future of faith formation in Christian churches and most uncertain in terms of future outcome.
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4 Scenarios
1. Will trends in U.S. culture lead people to become more receptive to organized religion, and in particular Christianity or will trends lead people to become more resistant to organized religion and Christianity?
2. Will people’s hunger for and openness to God and the spiritual life increase over the next decade or will people’s hunger for and openness to God and the spiritual life decrease.
Two Critical Uncertainties
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Faith Formation 2020 MatrixDominant Cultural Attitude toward Organized
ReligionReceptive
Low High People’s Hunger for God and the Spiritual Life
Resistant
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4 Scenarios for the Future
Scenario 4 Uncommitte
d & Participating
Scenario 1 Vibrant Faith
& Active Engagement
Scenario 3 Unaffiliated
& Uninterested
Scenario 2 Spiritual but
Not Religious
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Applying the Scenarios
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#1. A Network of Faith Formation
Shifting from. . . “One Size Fits All” Curriculum &
Programmingto
A Network of Personalized & Customized Faith Formation Activities & Resources
focusing on addressing people’s spiritual and religious growth by offering a wide variety of
religious content and experiences“Differentiated Faith Formation”
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#1. A Network of Faith Formation
ConceptAddress the diverse life tasks and situations, spiritual and religious needs, and interests of all ages and generations in the four scenarios by offering a variety of content, programs, activities, and resources.
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#1 A Network of Faith Formation
ConceptA Lifelong Faith Formation Network guides individuals and families in discerning their spiritual and religious needs and creating personal learning pathways—a seasonal or annual plan for faith growth and learning.
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#1. A Network of Faith Formation Utilize a variety of faith formation models to address the diverse life tasks and situations, religious and spiritual needs, and interests of people:
on your own at home in small groups in large groups in the congregation in the community and world
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#1. A Network of Faith Formation
Activity
Activity
Activity
• Face-to-Face• Virtual
1. On Your Own2. At Home3. In Small Group4. In Large Group5. In Church6. In Community
& World
Spiritual & Religious
Needs
Topics or Themes
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PHYSICAL SETTINGSInteractive
Transformative Experiences
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#1. A Network of Faith Formation Move from a curriculum approach to a
network approach
Provide 24 x 7 x 365 faith formation for all ages and generations—anytime & anywhere
Integrate faith formation in physical settings—church, home, community—with virtual (online) faith formation—websites, learning programs, resource centers
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Example: Preparing for a New Lectionary Cycle
Whole Church
Gathering
On Your Own (Online
Resources)
Small Group Course
(online & physical settings)
Family @Home (Online
Resources)
4-Week Lecture Series @Church (video online)Family
ProgramYouth
Program
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Example: Extending Sunday Worship into Everyday Life
Share It
Blog/Forum
After Mass
In Programs
Family Conversation Activity
Live It
Living the Message Daily
Living Christian Practices
Service Ideas for the Week
Pray It
Weekly Table Prayer
Praying with the Saints
AM & PM Prayer
Sunday Worship
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#2. Targeted Faith FormationScenario #4
+ family faith formation, especially young families
+ milestones faith formation+ pathways to deepen faith &
engagement
Scenario #1+ targeting Millennials+ targeting young families+ targeting Baby Boomers+ empowering people to
share their faith
Scenario #3+ Third Place settings+ community-based ministry,
e.g., service and mission+ events / concerts
Scenario #2+ Third Place settings+ targeting 20-30 year olds+ discipleship apprenticeships+ developing pathways to
deepen faith & engagement
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Baptism
Mentors
4 Keys Activities for Home
Prayer, Rituals, Bible, Family Conversation, Service
Parent Faith Formation & Parenting Skills
Social Media, Workshops, Online Resources
Milestones
Baptism Anniversary, First Prayers, Start of School
Support Groups
Mom’s Group, Dad’s Group
Early Childhood Program
Family Gatherings
Quarterly Church Gatherings
Family Small Group Clusters
Example: Young Families
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Example: Spiritual Seekers
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Introduction Dinner: Is there more to life than this? Week 1: Who is Jesus? Week 2: Why did Jesus die? Week 3: How can we have faith? Week 4: Why and how do I pray? Week 5: Why and how should I read the Bible? Week 6: How does God guide us? Week 7: How can I resist evil? Week 8: Why & how should we tell others? Week 9: Does God heal today? Week 10: What about the Church? Weekend: Who is the Holy Spirit? What does the
Holy Spirit do? How can I be filled with the Holy Spirit? How can I make the most of the rest of my life?
Example: Spiritual Seekers
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Example: PathwaysOur Lady of Soledad Catholic Parish
Mini-Retreat 101: “Catholics Alive!” “What does it mean to be a follower of Christ?”
Mini-Retreat 201: “Alive and Growing Spiritually!” maturing in the Catholic faith
Mini-Retreat 301: “Alive and Gifted!” discerning how to serve God in ministry
Mini-Retreat 401: “Alive in the World!” living as witnesses for Christ, as contagious Catholic
Christians Mini-Retreat 501: “Alive to Praise God!”
Catholic worship and the sacraments
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Example: Pathways
1. Spirituality: What’s the Buzz?
2. Who is Jesus?3. Do We Need the Spirit?4. Can I Accept God’s
Mercy?5. Can Mass Make My Life
Meaningful?6. The Church and Me
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Empower people of vibrant faith and active engagement in the church community—individuals, small groups, and the whole faith community—to share their faith with those who not involved in a church community or spiritually committed.
Empowering the Community to Share
their Faith
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Empowering the Community to Share
their Faith
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Step One. Church Leader’s Study: Unbinding the Gospel
Step Two: All-Church Saturation Study: Unbinding Your Heart: 40 Days of Prayer & Faith Sharing. six-week, church-wide, small
group E-vent! pray each day’s scripture and
prayer exercise and work with a prayer partner
study a chapter of the book with their small group
worship with sermons, music, and prayers centered on the week’s chapter
Empowering the Community to Share
their Faith
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Step Three: An Experiment in Prayer and Community: Unbinding Your Soul. a no-obligation experience of
substantial spiritual discussion, prayer and community for people who aren’t connected with a church
church members invite their friends into a four-week small group experience with short study chapters, an individual prayer journal, prayer partner activities, and group exercises.
Empowering the Community to Share
their Faith
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…evangelism is anything you say or do to help another person move into closer relationship
with God, or into Christian community. (George Hunter III)
The heart of evangelism is having an alive
relationship with God, being part of a church you love, and caring that people outside the
church find what you’ve discovered. (Martha Grace Reese)
Evangelism is to cooperate with the Holy Spirit
and others to bring one person one step closer to Christ.
(Evangelical Covenant Church)
Empowering the Community to Share
their Faith
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Design: Physical & Virtual Settings
Program
Online Resources
Correlated to Topics
Mentors
Blog for Reflections
Social Media for Connection
Online Prayer Partner
@Home – 4 Keys
Resources
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Strategies
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4 Scenarios for the Future
Scenario 4 Uncommitte
d & Participating
Scenario 1 Vibrant Faith
& Active Engagement
Scenario 3 Unaffiliated
& Uninterested
Scenario 2 Spiritual but
Not Religious
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Strategies
1. Faith Formation through the Life of the Whole Church
2. Faith Formation with Digital Media and Web Technologies
3. Family Faith Formation4. Intergenerational Faith Formation5. Generational Faith Formation: ▪ iGeneration (2000 - )▪ Millennials (1980-1999)▪ Gen X (1964-1979)▪ Boomers (1946-1964)▪ Builders (1945 and earlier)
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Strategies
6. Milestones Faith Formation7. Faith Formation in Christian
Practice8. Transforming the World9. Spiritual Formation 10.Multi-Ethnic Faith Formation11.Faith Formation for Spiritual
Seekers
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Strategies
12.Apprenticeships in Discipleship
13.Pathways to Vibrant Faith and Active Engagement
14.Faith Formation in Third Place Settings
15.Empowering the Community to Share their Faith
16.Interfaith Education and Dialogue
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Strengthen family religious socialization, especially in the first decade of life—by nurturing a vibrant faith in parents and equipping them with the skills and tools for developing faith at home.
Develop the home as a center of faith formation by promoting foundational family faith practices: caring conversations, rituals and traditions, prayer, Bible reading, and service.
Family Faith Formation
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Educate and equip parents to embed foundational faith practices into the daily experience of family life.
Develop family programs: milestone faith formation, family learning, family service
Engage families more fully in the life and ministries of the church community.
Family Faith Formation
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Family Socialization: Begin faith formation early in life – at Baptism and focusing on early childhood. family faith formation at
home – family faith practices
parent formation parent support system /
mentoring resources for the first 5-6
years of life milestone faith formation
Family Faith Formation
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Lifelong faith formation that is generationally-specific, developed around the specific characteristics of the five generations in a faith communityANDintentionally intergenerational across all generations in learning, service/mission, worship, community life
What does
Generational & Intergenerational
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Intentionally Intergenerational intergenerational learning:
large group and small group intergenerational Bible study intergenerational service
projects and mission trips infuse intergenerational
relationships into existing age-group programming , e.g., mentoring
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Intergenerational
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Develop a faith formation curriculum for the whole community using intergenerational learning. Church Year Feasts and Seasons Creed & Catholic Beliefs Sacraments Morality / “Ten Commandments
for Today” Justice, Peace, Care for Creation,
Service, Catholic Social Teaching Prayer Practices and Traditions
What does
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Example: Church Year Feasts and Seasons
Dec Advent & Christmas Seasons(Preparing for and Birth of the Messiah)
Feb Lenten Season (Praying, Fasting, Almsgiving)
Mar Triduum (Death of the Messiah)April Easter Season (Resurrection of the
Messiah)May Feast of Pentecost (Mission of the
Church)Nov Feast of All Saints (Communion of
Saints)
What does
Intergenerational
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Generationally-Specific iGeneration (2000 - ) Millennials (1980-1999) Generation X (1964-1979) Boomers (1946-1964) Builders (up to 1945)
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Generational & Intergenerational
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digital natives: web, social networking, digital media
formed by media & visual learners ability to use technology to create
a vast array of content openness to change desire for immediacy learning style: active, engaged,
creative (project-centered), visual, practice & performance, digital
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iGeneration & New Ways to Learn
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Expressive CommunalismEmerging adults have embedded their lives in spiritual communities in which their desire and need for both expressive/experiential activities, whether through art, music, or service-oriented activities, and for a close-knit, physical community and communion with others are met. They are seeking to develop a balance for individualism and rational asceticism through religious experience and spiritual meaning in an embodied faith.
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The dominant characteristic was a desire for a theologically grounded belief that makes sense cognitively, combined with nonrational expressive tendencies—they want a faith that makes cognitive sense to them and that is also an expressive, embodied spiritual experience. Young adult Christians are searching for a more holistic faith than what a purely cognitive and rational approach can offer. They are seeking both a deep spiritual experience and a community experience, each of which provides them with meaning in their lives, and each of which is meaningless without the other.
(Finding Faith by Richard Flory & Donald Miller)
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Expressive Communalism expressive/experiential faith
activities (worship, learning, rituals, prayer) and physical community with others
a faith that makes cognitive sense to them and that is also an expressive, embodied spiritual experience
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Creating deeper community through small groups
Making a difference through service Experiencing worship – reflecting their
culture and revering and revealing God (visual, musical, artistic, experiential)
Exploring the Bible and Christian tradition with depth, questioning, and applying faith to life
Utilizing the technology to communicate the message and to connect people
Building cross-generational relationships Forming the spiritual life – spiritual
practices & disciplines
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Desire first for community and belonging, and second for personal fulfillment. Personal fulfillment comes through commitment to the community, and through the experience of belong to such a religious/spiritual community.
Religious truth, while important to them, is not a fixed target, and is found through their religious experience, not in texts and doctrines. Truth, for Xers, is best conveyed through stories and myth, and is authenticated through the lived experience of themselves and others, rather than through the pronouncements—and propositional arguments—of external authorities.
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Generation X is moving from written text to narrative and image as a basis for religious belief. Image and story have become dominant and text background.
There is a move from the essentially individualistic spiritual quest that characterizes baby boomers to a religious/spiritual identity rooted in the larger community.
Greater individual authority in religious and moral decisions.
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Religious identity chosen through experience and study.
Choosing a specific community, rather than committing to a larger denomination.
Being experientially engaged in a religious community, not “show up and watch”
interpersonal relationships with people who express and explore their religious identities in similar ways
Generation X
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Service: Boomers want to do something interesting and challenging. They are ready to jump into a worthwhile cause where they feel that can make a significant difference. Boomers want service opportunities that have a mission. They want do to do things that give their lives purpose, meaning, and fulfillment. They want to know their contributions truly matter. Show Boomers how they might use their past work experiences as tools for service. Help them tap into their passion.
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Spiritual Growth: Later Adulthood is a season of significant life transitions and people are more responsive to religion. A second reason is Boomers quest to find meaning and purpose in life as they enter the second half of life and evaluate the things that really provide lasting fulfillment. A third reason adults are open to faith and spiritual growth is their desire for meaningful relationships. small group faith formation host events that appeal to interests &
needs service opportunities
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Intergenerational Relationships: Developing intergenerational relationships is one of the best ways to break age-related stereotypes, to share faith across generations, and to help the church become more unified encourage generations to serve together form groups according to similar interests
rather than age encourage adults to pray for young people
and vice versa host strategic intergenerational events ask adults to tell their stories, at events or
programs, and capture them on video or in print
Baby Boomers @ 60
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Spiritual enrichment: “spirituality of aging” programs, spiritual disciplines and practices, retreats, rituals to acknowledge life transitions
Learning: book clubs, classes and courses, Bible study, small groups, trips
Nutrition and wellness: exercise programs, nutrition classes, healthy meals with programs
Intergenerational: activities, coaching, mentoring
Service: tutoring, service—local and global, church ministry
Community: social activities, trips, dinners, pilgrimages
Builder Generation
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Develop faith formation (learning, worship/ritual, faith practices) around lifecycle milestones, sacramental celebrations, and life transitions to deepen people’s faith, strengthen their engagement in church life, and equip them with practices for living their faith.
Milestones Faith Formation
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Birth / Baptism & Anniversaries of Baptism
Welcoming Young Children to Worship Starting Faith Formation at Church Starting School Kids and Money Blessing of Backpacks First Communion Receiving a first Bible Confirmation Graduation (HS, College) A New Home / Apartment Career / First Job Engagement Wedding Retirement or AARP Card Adult Transitions Death / Funeral
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Faith Stepping Stones
Stone 1: Raising a Healthy Baby
physical, emotional and spiritual needs of infants and their parents; nightly blessing as a family faith practice.
Stone 2: Raising a Healthy Preschooler
physical, emotional and spiritual needs of preschoolers and their parents; add prayer to the nightly blessing as a faith practice
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Faith Stepping Stones
Stone 3: Entry Into School
physical, emotional and spiritual needs of kindergarteners and their parents; share highs & lows with children and add it to their nightly prayers and blessing
Stone 4: My Bible 120 key verses in young readers’
Bibles; reading a Bible verse nightly, continue with highs & lows, prayer and blessing nightly
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Faith Stepping StonesStone 5: Livin’
Forgiven Passover to Lord’s Supper, with
nightly confession and absolution added to the faith practices of Bible reading, highs & lows, prayer and blessing
Stone 6: Surviving Adolescence
theological reflection (i.e. setting the Bible verse and the highs & lows of the day together to ask “What is God saying to us today?”), adding to confession/ absolution, Bible reading, highs & lows, prayer and blessing continue
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Faith Stepping Stones
Stone 7: Confirmation As Ordination
youth and parents look at their confession, their confirmation, and their call.
Stone 8: Graduation Blessing seniors and their parents look
back God’s blessings, look to the moment, and look to the future of their new callings
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Milestones Faith Formation
Prepare
Celebrate/Experience
Deepen/Extend
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Multi-faceted Milestones Faith Formation
a ritual celebration or a blessing marking the milestone with the whole church community
a home ritual celebration or blessing marking the milestone
a learning program, often for the whole family or intergenerational, that prepares the individual and the whole family for the milestone and for faith practice at home
a tangible, visible reminder or symbol of the occasion being marked
resources to support continuing faith growth and practice after the milestone
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“In my view, an essential task of education in faith is to teach all the basic practices of the Christian faith. The fundamental aim of
Christian education in all its forms, varieties, and settings should be that individuals—and
indeed whole communities—learn these practices, be drawn into participation in them, learn to do them with increasingly
deepened understanding and skill, learn to extend them more broadly and fully in their own lives and into their world, and learn to
correct them, strengthen them, and improve them.”
(Craig Dykstra)
What does
Christian PracticesFaith Formation
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Make Christian practices central to faith formation for all ages and generations, at church and home, by focusing on historic Christian practices: honoring the body, celebrating life, discernment, dying well, eating well, forgiving, healing, hospitality, keeping Sabbath, managing household life, living in community, praying, reading the Bible, singing our lives, testimony and witness, and transforming the world (caring for creation, doing justice, peacemaking, serving).
What does
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Form people in Christian practices through educational programs, apprenticeships, and immersion experiences that give people a firsthand experience of a Christian practice, equip people to live the Christian practice in their daily lives, and guide reflection on living the practices.
Incorporate Christians practices education into faith formation programming for all ages and generations.
What does
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“Living Well: Real Faith for Real Life”
How to Care for Your Body How to Celebrate Life How to Make Tough Choices
(Discernment) How to Eat Well How to Forgive Yourself and Others How to Keep a Sabbath Day of Rest How to Manage Household Life How to Pray Well How to Read the Bible and Enjoy It! How to Serve Others
What does
Christian PracticesFaith Formation
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Develop Christian practices apprenticeships where people of all ages can learn how to live a practice from “Practice Mentors.”
Develop immersion experiences for people of all ages using the faith community’s lived experience of the Christian practices.
What does
Christian PracticesFaith Formation
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Offer people of all ages a variety of Christian practice immersion experiences that give people a firsthand experience of a Christian practice, and guide them in living the practice in their daily lives. For example: hospitality managing household life caring for the body forgiveness
Christian PracticesFaith Formation
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Incorporate Christian practices into all faith formation.
focus for the whole year focus for a season focus for a month connect to worship connect to milestones
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Christian PracticesFaith Formation
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Make formation for service and engagement in local and global action projects an essential component of faith formation for all age groups and families every year: serving the poor and vulnerable, working for justice to ensure the rights of all people, being a peacemaker, and caring for creation.
Faith Formation for Service & Mission
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local and global “developmental” with increasing
depth and scope:1. introduction: several hours to
a full day2. short term: multi-day and local3. weeklong and national mission
trips4. global expedition of one or
more weeks
Faith Formation for Service & Mission
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Incorporate an educational component into all service/mission projects that includes knowledge of the justice issues being addressed, the teachings of Scripture and the Christian tradition on the issues, skills for the specific service/mission project, and reflection on the service/mission involvement.
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Faith Formation for Service & Mission
Experience
Social Analysi
s
Theological
Reflection
Service & Action for
Justice
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Mobilize the Whole Faith Community through an Annual Church-Wide Project. Develop an annual church-wide justice and service project with local-global connections. Focus on a project, such as adopting a local or global action project organized by an organization, or focus an annual theme, such as poverty, care for creation, or peacemaking. For each annual theme develop a comprehensive set of programs and resources (often available from organizations you partner with) for all age groups, families, and the whole community.
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Sponsor local and global service/mission projects that are designed for the participation of people from the wider community, providing a public presence of the church in the community—from local efforts to feed the hungry, house the homeless, and improve education by adopting a public school to global projects that build schools, care for AIDS victims, and provide wells for water. The church partners with other churches and agencies to establish a serving presence in the community where people who are passionate about transforming the world, but not involved in church life, can work side-by-side with church members and see the Gospel in action.
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Respond to the hunger of people of all ages and generations for growing in relationship and intimacy with God and exploring more deeply the life of the Spirit by providing formation in spiritual disciplines and practices throughout life.
Spiritual Formation
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Lectio Divina Scripture Reflection Spiritual Reading Contemplation Praying with Art and Music Fixed-hour Prayer The Examen Sabbath Discernment Fasting Prayer Styles & Traditions
Spiritual Formation
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Teach the spiritual practices & disciplines through courses, workshops, immersion experiences
Incorporate spiritual formation into all faith formation programming
Offer retreat experiences for all ages and for families
Provide spiritual mentors and guides
Spiritual Formation
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Develop faith formation so that is inclusive of a diversity of ethnic cultures and their religious traditions and expressions
Develop culturally-specific faith formation that inculturates the Gospel message and Christian tradition so that it is proclaimed and taught in the language and culture of people.
Develop intercultural faith formation that brings people of different ethic groups together for learning, relationship building, faith sharing, praying, serving, and celebrating.
Multi-Ethnic Faith Formation
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Offer a guided process for spiritually hungry people to become spiritually committed and join in small communities with other seekers for spiritual growth and support.
Create new expressions of Christian community designed especially for spiritual seekers.
Offer an apprenticeship in discipleship for spiritually hungry people who want to grow in relationship with Jesus Christ and the Christian way of life.
Faith Formation forSpiritual Seekers
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Introduction Dinner: Is there more to life than this? Week 1: Who is Jesus? Week 2: Why did Jesus die? Week 3: How can we have faith? Week 4: Why and how do I pray? Week 5: Why and how should I read the Bible? Week 6: How does God guide us? Week 7: How can I resist evil? Week 8: Why & how should we tell others? Week 9: Does God heal today? Week 10: What about the Church? Weekend: Who is the Holy Spirit? What
does the Holy Spirit do? How can I be filled with the Holy Spirit? How can I make the most of the rest of my life?
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Apprenticeship Processes
Apprenticeships in Discipleship
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Establish a Third Place gathering space in the community, that offers hospitality, builds relationships, hosts spiritual conversations, provides programs and activities, and nourishes the spiritual life of people.
Third Place Faith Formation
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Here is one recent story submitted from the Lifetree Director in Reading, PA recounting their experience from the VERY FIRST night they opened.
"Last evening was amazing. We were concerned that we might have too many people and need to turn some away, so we prayed that God would bring just the right number. Off the Avenue Café (where Lifetree is hosted) holds about 48 people. Last evening 47 people showed up. Counting our host that makes 48.The discussion during the event and after was amazing. I actually think the topic could have been about peanut butter cups because the people that showed up just wanted to talk and they wanted to talk about God. We had discussions from feelings to predestination to angels to loss to reincarnation the list goes on and on. People just didn't want to leave. I was up until about 1 AM because I was so excited. Thank you so much for helping us enter this new area of ministry it is going to change our community and us.”
Third Place Faith Formation
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Develop processes that gradually deepen people’s relationship with Jesus Christ, their engagement in church life, and their practice of the Christian faith with a special focus on the needs of the “spiritual but not religious” (Scenario 2) and “the uncommitted but ”participating”
(Scenario 4.)
Pathways to Vibrant Faith & Active Engagement
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Our Lady of Soledad Catholic Parish
Mini-Retreat 101: “Catholics Alive!” “What does it mean to be a follower of Christ?”
Mini-Retreat 201: “Alive and Growing Spiritually!” maturing in the Catholic faith
Mini-Retreat 301: “Alive and Gifted!” discerning how to serve God in ministry
Mini-Retreat 401: “Alive in the World!” living as witnesses for Christ, as contagious
Catholic Christians Mini-Retreat 501: “Alive to Praise God!”
Catholic worship and the sacraments
Pathways to Vibrant Faith & Active Engagement
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Empower people of vibrant faith and active engagement in the church community—individuals, small groups, and the whole faith community—to share their faith with those who not involved in a church community or spiritually committed.
Empowering the Community to Share
their Faith
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…evangelism is anything you say or do to help another person move into closer relationship
with God, or into Christian community. (George Hunter III)
The heart of evangelism is having an alive
relationship with God, being part of a church you love, and caring that people outside the
church find what you’ve discovered. (Martha Grace Reese)
Evangelism is to cooperate with the Holy Spirit
and others to bring one person one step closer to Christ.
(Evangelical Covenant Church)
Empowering the Community to Share
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Empowering the Community to Share
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Step One. Church Leader’s Study: Unbinding the Gospel
Step Two: All-Church Saturation Study: Unbinding Your Heart: 40 Days of Prayer & Faith Sharing. six-week, church-wide, small
group E-vent! pray each day’s scripture and
prayer exercise and work with a prayer partner
study a chapter of the book with their small group
worship with sermons, music, and prayers centered on the week’s chapter
Empowering the Community to Share
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Step Three: An Experiment in Prayer and Community: Unbinding Your Soul. a no-obligation experience of
substantial spiritual discussion, prayer and community for people who aren’t connected with a church
church members invite their friends into a four-week small group experience with short study chapters, an individual prayer journal, prayer partner activities, and group exercises.
Empowering the Community to Share
their Faith
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Faith Formation Curator
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Faith Formation Curator Shifting from providing religious
content and programming to curating religious content and experiences for all ages
A content curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes, and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific subject to match the needs of a specific audience.
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Faith Formation CuratorWhat would you curate?
Congregational Programs & ActivitiesCommunity Programs & ActivitiesPeople ResourcesPrint ResourcesAudio & Video ResourcesArt, Drama, and Music ResourcesOnline Content: Websites, Courses,
Blogs Apps & Digital Resources
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The Process of Curation
Research
Aggregate &
Evaluate
Deliver
Communicate &
Connect
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Curating the Bible
Research
Aggregate &
Evaluate
Deliver
Communicate &
Connect
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Curating Print
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Curating Print
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Curating Online Courses
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Curating Digital ResourcesYouVersion Bible
App
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Curating Websites
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Curating Art