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Step by Step

Two Questions: Olivia Updegrove

Creating a Contagious Community

Our First Day with LIFT (Living in Faith Together)

Bringing the Intergenerational Relationship Piece to Bible Lessons

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Step by Step

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Liz PerraudExecutive DirectorGenOn Ministries     Nearly five years ago, I hiked a portion of The Camino de Santiago (The Way of St. James) in Northern Spain. It was the most difficult prolonged thing I’ve ever done (except maybe parenting), but so worth it. I had limited knowledge of the weather, limited luggage space, and limited room for day-packing with no access to the rest of my stuff until dinnertime. It was a discipline in deciding on the basics—sturdy, comfortable shoes and socks, layers of clothing, rain gear, water, cash. The basics included more than what I packed. The basics were...

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Two Questions: Olivia Updegrove

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Rev. Dr. Olivia Bryan UpdegroveMinister for Ministries Across Generations Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)   In each edition of IG Mix, we ask someone two questions about serving in ministry.  What keeps you up at night? The interplay between “keeping it real” and “making it real” keeps me up at night. As I get older, time seems to pass faster and faster. I can feel the changes and aging process more at night, and thus I realize that my “youthful relevance” has left and it may not have been all that “relevant.” Thus, what really keeps me up at night are “getting...

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Creating a Contagious Community

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“We long for intergenerational relationships,” Perraud said, noting that the earliest church attendees met in homes to pray, worship, break bread, learn and fellowship alongside believers of all ages.

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Our First Day with LIFT (Living in Faith Together)

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Kim Looney Director of Children, Youth, and Family Ministries Plymouth Congregational Church Syracuse, NY Editor’s note: Kim wrote about attending the Sunday LIFT workshop in our last newsletter. Read that article. My church had its first LIFT on Sunday, and it was fantastic (with around 60 participants)! It was pouring rain right about the time when everyone arrived for worship (fitting for the theme of the day). We had a baptism during worship, and after worship everyone was invited to our fellowship hall to explore the first Summer LIFT Water Story: A Big Boat. Each age group got a different colored...

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Bringing the Intergenerational Relationship Piece to Bible Lessons

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Marla Paulson Director of Youth and Family Ministry St. John’s Lutheran Church Bloomer, WI It’s that time of the year when I, as the Youth Director of a Lutheran congregation in Wisconsin, begin to make decisions concerning what curriculum will be used for the Sunday and Wednesday faith formation programs that are offered. I have been the Director of Youth and Family Ministry for 20 years. During the month of June, I take time to go through the evaluations that volunteers have given concerning lesson plans, how difficult or easy they were to use, etc. For several years I was...

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