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Introducing Annette Hinkle, Our New GenOn Ministries Board Member
One Great Idea: Camp Out LOGOS
Our First Day with LIFT (Living in Faith Together)
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Introducing Annette Hinkle, Our New GenOn Ministries Board Member
Posted by Liz Perraud at
It is our honor to share that Annette Hinkle has accepted a call to serve on the GenOn Ministries Board of Directors. Annette is a member of Christ Memorial Presbyterian Church in Columbia, Maryland where she is the volunteer bookkeeper. She grew up in rural Michigan and attended the local United Methodist Church there. After moving to Maryland, Annette spent 10 years with Grant Thornton where she helped establish the non-profit industry specialty services for the firm. She then spent 10 years with Hostelling International - USA and recently retired from The Foundation Fighting Blindness. Annette serves on several local...
One Great Idea: Camp Out LOGOS
Posted by Tracey Daniels at
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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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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Worship. Repeatedly.
Posted by Liz Perraud at
Liz Perraud Executive Director GenOn Ministries The church I attend is undergoing renovation and new construction. Among other inconveniences, we were out of the sanctuary for about a year. We worshiped in an elementary school cafeteria for the summer and then in our fellowship hall for the next school year. The fellowship hall is much smaller than the sanctuary so many accommodations were made for special services like Christmas Eve and Easter—and for other uses of the room during the week (like LOGOS Family Time meals). It was a real pain (first world problems, I know) and we...