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Step 1 - Discover - Six-Step Path for Becoming Intentionally Intergenerational
Jan 18, 2023

Brittany Sky Joins GenOn Team
Dec 01, 2022

Two Questions: Holly Allen
Aug 10, 2022

You Got to Move
Aug 10, 2022

Celebrating in the Pandemic: A Growth Group Journey
Apr 06, 2022

Blog — Intergenerational faith formation

Step 1 - Discover - Six-Step Path for Becoming Intentionally Intergenerational

Posted by Liz Perraud at Jan 18, 2023

Liz PerraudExecutive DirectorGenOn Ministries I love the idea of Discover. Maybe it goes back to my days of reading Nancy Drew or Encyclopedia Brown detective stories. Discover invokes feelings of excitement and newness; the experience of surprise or “aha” moments in the midst of an intentional quest. When our two-year-old granddaughter rounds the corner of the paved path, glimpsing the swings and slide (that she didn’t remember were going to be on our walk), her whole body erupts with her discovery of “the pway-ground!!” Wouldn’t it be fun and energizing for your church to experience the same...

Brittany Sky Joins GenOn Team

Posted by Liz Perraud at Dec 01, 2022

GenOn Ministries is doing a new thing! With great joy, we announce the hiring of Brittany Sky as the Project Director for our upcoming Christian Parenting and Caregiving Project. She is a writer, creator, and researcher who loves kids and the adults who care for them. Brittany is the author of Raising Good People, the Celebrate Wonder Bible Storybook, and the Bible Basics Storybook, and co-author of the Deep Blue Bible Storybook, and countless curricula. GenOn’s project, which Brittany will direct, seeks to build a continuous faith forming environment from infancy through young adolescence that is centered in the family...

Two Questions: Holly Allen

Posted by Liz Perraud at Aug 10, 2022

Holly AllenAuthorRetired Professor of Family Science and Christian MinistriesLipscomb University, Nashville In each edition of IG Mix, we ask a guest writer two questions about serving in ministry. What keeps you up at night? Words. Before I sleep, I often consider what I have written that day. I am currently working on a revised, updated edition of Intergenerational Christian Formation with co-authors Christine Lawton and Cory Seibel. So I am daily writing, deleting, re-writing, shuffling—creating new sentences and paragraphs for this book. And at night, I think about those words. Is there a better way to help people...

You Got to Move

Posted by Liz Perraud at Aug 10, 2022

Liz PerraudExecutive DirectorGenOn Ministries I heard an old spiritual on the radio the other day… You got to move, you got to move You got to move, child, you got to move But when the Lord get ready You got to move You may be high, you may be low You may be rich, child, you may be poor But when the Lord get ready You got to move It reminded me of key advice I received from a doctor about how best to recover from a major medical situation—maintain an active lifestyle. You got to move. The church is...

Celebrating in the Pandemic: A Growth Group Journey

Posted by Liz Perraud at Apr 06, 2022

A look at one church’s journey with GenOn’s Growth Group for Intergenerational Ministry during the pandemic: “We’ve been going against the wind with this process (and value that); not just waiting it out (which is more passive). Just the act of planning something was heroic.” - Lew Parks, pastor, Growth Group team leader, Mt. Olivet United Methodist Lew and his team chose to focus on Fellowship from the four Ministry Areas – Worship, Study, Service and Fellowship. Their goal was “to celebrate holy days of the church year and religious themes in secular holidays through festive fellowship events that feature...