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Brittany Sky Joins GenOn Team
Dec 01, 2022

Two Questions: Trevecca Okholm
Nov 16, 2020

Two Questions: Christina Embree
Sep 28, 2020

What Do You Think?
Sep 28, 2020

InterGenerate Conference: Firehose or Summer Camp?
Jul 13, 2017

Blog — Faith Formation Ministries

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: Trevecca Okholm

Posted by Liz Perraud at Nov 16, 2020

Trevecca OkholmAuthorProfessor, at Azusa Pacific University What keeps you up at night? Besides spicy food and snoring, one thing that keeps me up at night is concern for the siloing* of the church in western culture. It started innocently enough in the late 1940s with churches seeking to attract the new post WWII youth culture with cool meeting spaces and hip youth directors. Not long after came a new emphasis on children’s ministry, and before we had time to stop and reflect on what was happening, the local church created specialized ministry for every stage and age group...

Two Questions: Christina Embree

Posted by Liz Perraud at Sep 28, 2020

Christina EmbreeMinister of Generational Discipleship Great Lakes Conference of the Brethren in Christ What keeps you up at night? My family loves to make fun of me for my restless nights. Any noise at night will wake me up and getting back to sleep is a chore. When I think about what keeps me up at night, the first thing that comes to mind is “Everything!” But, as I reflect, I realize what really keeps me up is the noise. Not necessarily actual noises but the noise that fills this world; the anger, the hurt, the hatred,...

What Do You Think?

Posted by Liz Perraud at Sep 28, 2020

Liz PerraudExecutive DirectorGenOn Ministries Our granddaughter is nearly four and asks “why?” a lot. We take walks on the path through the woods near our home which is often when the questions arise. “Why is this called ‘the woods’ and not ‘a forest’?” “Why aren’t there wolves here?” “Why are mushrooms growing at the playground?” “Why is your kitty in heaven?” I usually respond in one of three ways. “Because…” (when I’m fairly certain of the answer)“I think…” (when I can make a good guess)“I don’t know…” (when I haven’t a clue) When I’m really on the ball, though, I...

InterGenerate Conference: Firehose or Summer Camp?

Posted by Liz Perraud at Jul 13, 2017

“Drinking from the fire hose” doesn’t begin to describe the experience I had at InterGenerate June 25-27 at Lipscomb University in Nashville. InterGenerate 2017 was an inaugural conference gathering 150 academics, practitioners, and others excited about the impact of intergenerational relationships on today’s church and wider community. It was more like summer camp where I couldn’t wait to get up each morning, had trouble falling asleep each night though fully exhausted, and then was sad to leave. But I left with all these new, wonderful friends and inspired to carry on! Jam-packed, overflow days of workshops, panel discussions, keynote addresses,...