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Step 1 - Discover - Six-Step Path for Becoming Intentionally Intergenerational
Jan 18, 2023

Two Questions: Holly Allen
Aug 10, 2022

You Got to Move
Aug 10, 2022

FAQs for the NEW Intergenerational Ministry Starter Bundle
Nov 08, 2021

Seminary Corner: The Joy of Shared Life
Sep 11, 2021

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

Posted by Liz Perraud at Jan 18, 2023

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...

Two Questions: Holly Allen

Posted by Liz Perraud at Aug 10, 2022

Holly AllenAuthorRetired Professor of Family Science and Christian MinistriesLipscomb University, Nashville In each edition of IG Mix, we ask a guest writer two questions about serving in ministry. What keeps you up at night? Words. Before I sleep, I often consider what I have written that day. I am currently working on a revised, updated edition of Intergenerational Christian Formation with co-authors Christine Lawton and Cory Seibel. So I am daily writing, deleting, re-writing, shuffling—creating new sentences and paragraphs for this book. And at night, I think about those words. Is there a better way to help people...

You Got to Move

Posted by Liz Perraud at Aug 10, 2022

Liz PerraudExecutive DirectorGenOn Ministries I heard an old spiritual on the radio the other day… You got to move, you got to move You got to move, child, you got to move But when the Lord get ready You got to move You may be high, you may be low You may be rich, child, you may be poor But when the Lord get ready You got to move It reminded me of key advice I received from a doctor about how best to recover from a major medical situation—maintain an active lifestyle. You got to move. The church is...

FAQs for the NEW Intergenerational Ministry Starter Bundle

Posted by Liz Perraud at Nov 08, 2021

Learn more about the Intergenerational Ministry Starter Bundle Online What is it? It’s a 1-2 month guided process for a team of church leaders and a GenOn Guide to experience three workshops: Intergenerational Pathways, Guided Snapshot, and Ministry Area Development. Does Intergenerational Ministry mean starting a new program? It could, but not necessarily. Many congregations choose to adapt an existing ministry area – Worship, Study, Service, or Fellowship – to become more intentionally intergenerational. Does it mean all the generations in the same room? That’s typically multigenerational. To be intergenerational you plan which generations gather where all are...

Seminary Corner: The Joy of Shared Life

Posted by Liz Perraud at Sep 11, 2021

Andre Jordan “AJ” Wallace Second-Year Student Princeton Seminary AJ, right, in an intergenerational Sunday morning ministry during his internship. I had the joy of working at a church for the first time this summer. I held very little to no expectations about how the summer would unfold. While I can say numerous things about the wonderful experience I had as a seminary intern, I want to share what I believe was one of the greatest lessons I learned this summer – the power of presence. More specifically, the power of people showing up in...