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Gathering All with LIFT

Posted by Liz Perraud at Sep 28, 2020

LIFT prior to COVID restrictions. Rachel E. Núñez Director of Faith Formation Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Akron, OH After the initial shut-down and following the Easter season and working week-to-week with individual story and faith formation themes, I reintroduced LIFT (Living in Faith Together) as a weekly offering for Intergenerational Faith Formation. I had already purchased LIFT Summer “God Creates” and had it scheduled for our summer gatherings. We shifted gears and provided the materials as a hard copy through mail and we also included it in a member’s only e-mail. I stretched the “God Creates” curriculum over June and July...

Our First Day with LIFT (Living in Faith Together)

Posted by Tracey Daniels at Sep 07, 2019

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...

Bringing the Intergenerational Relationship Piece to Bible Lessons

Posted by Tracey Daniels at Sep 07, 2019

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...

LIFT Engages All Ages at Trinity UCC

Posted by Liz Perraud at Jul 07, 2019

Trinity United Church of Christ in Wooster, Ohio introduced Sunday LIFT (Living in Faith Together) to their congregation this spring, right after Easter. Church leaders hoped LIFT would help get more people involved outside of their worship services and usual Sunday school classes. And it did! Director of Christian Education and the Arts Suzanne Feltner shared, “Many said it was a wonderful time of fellowship and that the activities engaged people of all ages.” Suzanne also said that the curriculum was easy to follow and offered things some people would not normally do, like make a rain gauge, discuss scripture...

What Are Churches That Are Doing LIFT Saying About It?

Posted by Liz Perraud at Jun 25, 2019

MORE ABOUT LIFT Download our free LIFT "Why & How" Order LIFT LIFT (Living in Faith Together) is GenOn's intergenerational community building resource for Sunday mornings and beyond! What are the churches that are doing LIFT saying about it? “LIFT has met a need for our congregation as we seek to grow and reach out. We have people coming that never came to traditional Sunday school and our teens have opted to stay in LIFT rather than go back to their traditional group.” “The scriptures chosen for the studies are familiar, yet the study often presented a new way...