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The joy of launching: Step 5 in Becoming Intentionally Intergenerational

Two Questions: Robert Keeley

Information and Practice -- Learn: Step 3 in Becoming Intentionally Intergenerational

Two Questions: Chris Barnett

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

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The joy of launching: Step 5 in Becoming Intentionally Intergenerational

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Get started with intergenerational ministry.

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Two Questions: Robert Keeley

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Robert KeeleyAuthorand Professor of Education, Emeritus Calvin University     In each edition of IG Mix, we ask a guest writer two questions about serving in ministry. What keeps you up at night?I worry about what Christian Smith and his colleagues call Moralistic Therapeutic Deism and how prevalent it is in both young people and adults. I’m concerned that this has happened in part because our teaching about faith is too often more centered on how we should behave than on the grace of God. Sanctification is important, of course, but the good news has been watered down and is...

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Information and Practice -- Learn: Step 3 in Becoming Intentionally Intergenerational

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Liz PerraudExecutive DirectorGenOn Ministries       I thought it would be fun to play Cat’s Cradle with my six-year-old granddaughter. Maybe you remember the string game from childhood. The game begins when one player creates the starting figure (called Cat’s Cradle) on their hands and fingers. The next player pinches or grabs the string and winds their hands around in a particular way to transfer the loop to their hands, creating a new figure. And then it returns to the first player to create a third figure by manipulating the string loop. Back and forth, repeating a limited number...

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Two Questions: Chris Barnett

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 Chris BarnettExecutive General Manager, Intergen, Australia and Assembly Resource Unit, Uniting Church Australia     In each edition of IG Mix, we ask someone the same two questions about intergenerational ministry: “What keeps you up at night?” and “What gets you up in the morning?” What keeps you up at night? While the case for a more intergenerational approach to ministry and mission continues to be bolstered by a growing field of research and “real life” stories of positive change, overall momentum toward greater intergenerationality across churches seems to be slowing down. Though this is totally understandable in the light of...

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

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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...

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