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A World Filled with Thriving Christian Communities

Posted by Liz Perraud at Dec 17, 2016

“We started LOGOS with a ‘soft launch’—only doing two of the elements (Family Time and Bible Study) until we have more buy-in. We have very few children in our small church, but we want to build relationships between the children and the adults. We had 50 people come to the first night…seven of which were children. There was a child at each table with adults surrounding that child and sharing and caring for them. My congregation has never been so excited about an event! I've been getting phone calls all day about how much the members enjoyed everything! It's a new...

Mission: LOGOS connects the dots between faith and service

Posted by Liz Perraud at Nov 10, 2016

By Teresa Goller, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Decatur, Illinois With mission in mind, our church recently hosted a combined LOGOS/Deacons spaghetti dinner to honor our city's First Responders. And bonus! The event date, Oct. 5, was our "Acts of Random Kindness Night" at LOGOS! Elementary children filled many roles that night. Our most outgoing children greeted guests outside. Then our youngest kids directed guests to the serving table. LOGOS kids served the baked spaghetti, salad, green beans and drinks. Other children cleared tables and directed the guests to the dessert table. Meanwhile, junior and senior high youth delivered food to our seven...

LOGOS: Friends of All Ages

Posted by Liz Perraud at Oct 24, 2016

October is Share Your Story month at GenOn. Lucy Neely of Christ Memorial Presbyterian Church in Columbia, Maryland shares… I have been attending Christ Memorial Presbyterian for about three years. I remember the first time I visited CMPC with my family. I immediately knew that this was the church I would call home. My family wanted to visit a few more churches before becoming members just to see if we could find anything better, but I knew that wasn’t possible. Now, after being here three years this church has given me some of the best friends I could ever ask...

LOGOS: Intergenerational connectedness

Posted by Liz Perraud at Oct 06, 2016

October is Share Your Story Month at GenOn. Rev. Suzanne Stout of First Christian Church of Des Moines, Iowa shares... Last year a couple of our high school youth began volunteering in our elementary program of LOGOS and on our kitchen crew for the hour before the high school program begins each week. Our oldest volunteer is in his 90s, and comes faithfully each week. He attends our training sessions, and seeks to get to know the families and the children throughout the year. We re-aligned our kitchen jobs to better fit the stamina of our older members, and now have...

Children in Worship: Being intentional

Posted by Liz Perraud at Aug 10, 2016

GenOn Ministries is a proponent of all ages in worship, and not just as passive observers but engaged and leading. However, there are good reasons why many faith communities choose to offer “parallel learning” for the youngest children during some of worship, particularly the sermon. Here are two ideas to help parents with re-engaging children who have been out of worship for a time. First, Carolyn Brown writes in her Worshiping with Children blog about children being clearly welcomed to the worshiping congregation and that their parents be supported at each step. She offers, as an example, a letter to...