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Blog — intergenerational relationships
Two Questions: Tammy Tolman
Posted by Liz Perraud at
Tammy TolmanPastor, Author, Intergenerate Australia Planning Team Member What keeps you up at night? As a leader and someone who is passionate to help all ages grow closer to God, what keeps me up at night is the space the Church of today seems to have found itself in. We have found ourselves consumed by the comfortable, known, and seemingly successful way of “Sunday Age-Segmented" gatherings, which are most often focused around a 40-minute sermon and some professionally presented worship songs. That we call this “Church,” is something that keeps me up at night. Even in this pandemic,...
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- Tags: church growth, church transformation, COVID-19, Intergenerational faith formation, intergenerational ministry, intergenerational relationships
Youth Gatherings Become Intergenerational with LIFT
Posted by Tracey Daniels at
Rev. Sara Krhla Church of Christ, Congregational, UCC Goshen, Connecticut The Church of Christ Congregational in Goshen has been holding intergenerational activities for many years. After attending the InterGenerate Conference in Tennessee in May of 2019, I realized that, although we were offering intergenerational activities and providing experiences that were accessible to all ages, most of it was not intentional. Sunday LIFT helped me bring some intentionality to our experiences together and made a lot of the planning less intense. LIFT encouraged a change in format to our Confirmation Class gatherings. One of the biggest questions I left the...
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- Tags: Christian Education, Intergenerational faith formation, intergenerational ministry, intergenerational relationships, Sunday LIFT, youth, Youth Ministry
Creating a Contagious Community
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- Tags: Christian Education, Intergenerational faith formation, intergenerational ministry, intergenerational relationships, Mike Ferguson, POAMN, Presbyterian News Service
One Great Idea: Camp Out LOGOS
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Donelson Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee launched 26 years of LOGOS with a year-long theme of “Camp Out LOGOS, Getting S’more Jesus.” Their sign-up for children, youth, and parents was held after Sunday worship with lunch—grilled hot dogs, baked beans, chips, and s’mores, of course—served at tables decorated for the theme. Parents completed registration forms and signed the LOGOS covenant and photo release. Payments were made or scholarships were requested. (Church members provide scholarship money as their way to contribute to LOGOS if they are unable to help with staffing.) LOGOS leaders dressed as camp counselors and...
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- Tags: children's ministry, Christian Education, intergenerational ministry, intergenerational relationships, LOGOS, midweek ministry
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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- Tags: children's ministry, Christian Education, Intergenerational faith formation, intergenerational relationships, intergenerational Sunday school curriculum, Sunday LIFT