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What Are You Actually Preparing for This Advent? advent christmas church dinner intergenerational faith formation Sep 23, 2026

Advent is a season about waiting.

We do not stumble into Christmas. We walk toward it on purpose, lighting one candle at a time, saying out loud each week that something is coming and we are getting ...

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Intergenerational Retreat Becomes an Anchor Point in Church Memories church community church retreat intergenerational church retreat Sep 21, 2026


Heidi Wilkins
Director of Family Formation
St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church

St. Matthew’s has a long history of retreating to the mountains as a church community.  In 2023, we offered an Interg...

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Threads Within: Trusting What We Cannot See christian education christian parenting threads within trusting god Sep 14, 2026

Threads Within is GenOn's new resource to help church leaders support families in everyday faith. 

Jesus compares the Spirit to the wind in John 3:8. People cannot see where the wind come...

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Threads Within: Trusting the Slow Work of God caregiving christian parenting parenting threads within trusting god Aug 31, 2026

Threads Within is GenOn's new resource to help church leaders support families in everyday faith. 

“Above all, trust in the slow work of God.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If you are carin...

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Threads Within: Growing in Wonder christian parenting christian relationships threads within wonder Aug 10, 2026

Threads Within is GenOn's new resource to help church leaders support families in everyday faith. 


Guest Writer Jennifer Grant
Adult and Children's Author

My neighbor, Ezra, is four years o...

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Threads Within: Loving One Another christian parenting church community community love your neighbor threads within Jul 27, 2026

Threads Within is GenOn's new resource to help church leaders support families in everyday faith. 


A simple family faith practice for learning to love, serve, and belong together

Communi...

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Threads Within: Building Community in the Neighborhood christian relationships church community community threads within Jul 07, 2026

Threads Within is GenOn's new resource to help church leaders support families in everyday faith. Free sample at bottom of this post.


The call to community begins with the love of Christ.
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Threads Within: A Simple Family Practice for Joy and Connection christian education christian parenting faith formation family faith formation fun threads within Jun 16, 2026


Threads Within
is GenOn's new resource to help church leaders support families in everyday faith. 

 

In our busy, stressful lives, making time for fun can feel almost impossible. Between h...

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Welcome Jo VanMeter as Logos Church Consultant intergenerational ministry logos midweek ministry Jan 07, 2026

We are pleased to share that Jo VanMeter is serving GenOn Ministries as our Logos Church Consultant to support current Logos churches as well as assist in the exploration and launch of new Logos minis...

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6 Reasons Your Church Will Be Changed by GenOn Youth Summit missions youth youth summit Dec 09, 2025

 


By Rev. Thom Lamb

Summit manager and retired pastor

  1. We need it! We can’t deny that we live in a divided world. Through the Youth Summit GenOn seeks to break down the walls that divide u...
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Faith Is More Caught Than Taught: Contagious Christian Community christian education christian relationships Oct 29, 2025

Liz Perraud
Executive Director
GenOn Ministries

I love my morning NYT word puzzles—Strands, Wordle, Connections, and the new Antiwordle. They stretch my brain and are a good way to wake up. B...

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Two Questions: Glenys Nellist christian education faith formation family faith formation Aug 26, 2025

Glenys Nellist
Christian Children's Author

In each edition of IG Mix, we ask someone in ministry the same two questions:

What keeps you up at night? 

Since I just completed the final edits...

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