Articles:
- Fun and Memorable Children’s Ministry Games: Click here
- Blog post from A Sanctified Art (11/2022) about children in worship – bags for them, creating a pray-ground in your sanctuary: Click here
- 11/2022 Research Report – What is the place of families in church post-Covid? From The National Institute for Christian Education Research (NICER): Click here
- Creating a Thanks Jar: Click here
- Opening Doors to Discipleship on Children’s Ministry: Click here
- Planning Faith Formation for 2022 and Beyond: A Time for Creativity, Experimentation, Innovation, a paper by John Roberto: Click here
- Cultivate: Growing in Faith, a newsletter from PRC full of great Christian Education ideas for all ages, 8/2022: Click here
- Simple Things: A Pre-School Tweak, 5/2022 APCE article: Click here
- Developing a New Plan for Children’s Ministry, 11/2021 Children’s Ministry Basics article: Click here
- Simple Things: A New Arena for Simpler Sundays, 5/2022 APCE article: Click here
Webinars:
- Faith Formation Leader Connection Resource Zoom, A PC(USA) resourcing Zoom with time to share what’s new, what’s in season, and ask what you are looking for. One registration link with two times to choose from, a daytime or evening meeting: Click here
- Kids in Worship: The Prayground, April, 2023 PRC webinar: Click here
- Office of Christian Formation Webinars 2023 both on demand and register for upcoming: Click here
- Empowering Parents to Practice Faith at Home: A Ministry Leader Workshop, 5/2021 webinar from Yale Divinity School and Rev. Traci Smith: Click here
- What’s Next in Christian Education Workshop, 6/2022 PRC webinar: Click here
- A Messy Church for a Messy World, 3/2022 PRC webinar, Messy Church is a global movement that focuses on a way to be church for all-ages together to engage in faith formative activities celebrating the centrality of the love of Jesus Christ.: Click here
Resources:
- Holy Moments resources from PRC: Click here or purchase individual parts here at Dandelion Marketplace: Click here
- Summertime Faithful Families calendar/packet from PC(USA) minister Traci Smith, $: Click here
- Holy Moments resources from PRC: or purchase individual parts here at Dandelion Marketplace: Click here
- Summer at home care package from Cultivate Faith PRC Practical Resources for Churches. Four care packages (play dough prayers, family labyrinth walks, prayer garden, and prayer deck) you can send home for families. Click here
Resource Pages:
- Around The Table resource page from PC(USA) with resources to help foster faith formation in the home: Click here
- Faith Formation Playlists for all ages: Click here
- Faith Practices Toolkit from the PCUSA: Click here
- Faith Formation Leader Connection, PC(USA) page: Click here
- Around the Table: Design a Summer Series on the Faith Practices! From Worship Ministries and Faith Formation Ministries’ (ELC) Everything you need to create an interactive and intergenerational series on the faith practices of Prayer, Celebrating, Listening, Wonder, Service, Remembering, and more: Click here
- Creative Ways To Energize Your Sunday School, booklet by Debbie Kolacki for PRC
- Relational Children’s Ministry: Turning Kid-Influencers Into Lifelong Disciple Makers by Dan Lovaglia, Zondervan 2016
- Godly Play Foundation: Click here
- Intergen, free resources – Resourcing and supporting best practice ministry and mission with children and their families, with a focus on intentional intergenerationality: Click here
- Taking Faith Home cards from Milestones Ministries: Click here
- All About Communion, a playlist from the Michigan Conference from the United Methodists: Click here
- Holy Moments, resources for families to share from PRC, 2023, $: Click here
- PCUSA Christian Formation Resources: Click here
- Dandelion Marketplace: Progressive Spiritual Formation for Families and Churches, 1/25, 1:00pm PRC webinar: Click here
- Opening Doors To Discipleship: A Training Website for Faith Formation Leaders in the Reformed Tradition: The Website, A Quicksheet with information on how it can be used
- Children’s Ministry Basics website: Click here
- Re-Formation Resource Roadmap from the PC(USA) includes links for articles, evaluation tools, hybrid ministry, and technology for post pandemic planning and re-formation: Click here
- APCE Resource Page: Click here
- Vibrant Faith: Transforming the way we envision and design faith formation for all ages and generations in the 21st century: Click here
- Family Faith Formation Resources by Topic (Christian Reformed Church): Click here
- Hope4CE: A place where innovative ideas and lesson plans can be shared for Christian Education: Click here
- Techtools4CE (only on facebook): Click here
- Lifelong Faith Formation for Today’s World: Click here
- Building Faith, a ministry of Virginia Theological Seminary (article, webinars, resources): Click here