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GenOn Youth Summit 2022 Is On!

Posted by Liz Perraud at Nov 08, 2021

Kelly BurnettGenOn Youth Summit Coordinator Youth Summit 2022July 10-16, 2022 @ Johnson University in Knoxville, TN For students completing grades 8-12, college-aged young adults, and the adults who love and support them. Two years ago, we gathered in Colorado and West Virginia for GenOn Summit 2019. It was, as usual, a wonderful experience of living together in Christian Community. With a pandemic sweeping the globe, the leadership was forced to make the difficult decision to postpone the Summit until the summer of 2022. This forced hiatus has given rise to the creation of one...

Seminary Corner: Ritual Revolution

Posted by Liz Perraud at Nov 08, 2021

Andre Jordan “AJ” WallaceSecond-Year StudentPrinceton Seminary I sometimes wonder if the church has forgotten that bearing the image of God is a communal task (Genesis 1:26). I say this out of recognition of the cultural practice of not often including young people in our regular rhythms of worship. Yes, we have our Youth Sundays and children’s sermons that take up a few moments of a service, but many of our congregations probably don’t have consistent liturgies that are truly intergenerational. Why don’t we have children regularly lead us in our worship services? Why do we seem to embrace the idea that young children cannot testify and bear witness to the...

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Tags: children in worship, intergenerational worship, worship, worship arts, worship ideas, youth, Youth Ministry

Two Questions: Andrew Root

Posted by Tracey Daniels at Nov 06, 2021

Andrew RootAuthorProfessor, Youth and Family MinistryLuther Seminary, USA In each edition of IG Mix, we ask a guest writer two questions about serving in ministry. What keeps you up at night? I’m sure I’m not alone, but I’ve found it harder to sleep during the pandemic. I suppose I could have (maybe even should have) treated the lockdowns as an opportunity to hibernate. Unable to control the crisis, I should have controlled what I could and caught up, even stored up, on sleep. But the crisis throbbed with an anxiety that kept me from rest and peace. I couldn’t...

Growing Mutual Investment in Worship

Posted by Liz Perraud at Nov 06, 2021

Liz PerraudExecutive DirectorGenOn Ministries GenOn Ministries defines intergenerational ministry as nurturing Christ-centered community by bringing together two or more generations in planned and purposeful settings, where all are mutually invested. Intergenerational ministry is more than faith formation curriculum. It is about infusing the whole church with an ethos—the characteristic spirit of the community guided by its beliefs or ideas. Eventually, this intergenerational spirit impacts everyone and everything. Where to begin? GenOn has identified four ministry areas for the church: worship, study, service, and fellowship. We suggest using our free Snapshot tool with a team to evaluate and...

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Tags: children in worship, intergenerational worship, worship, worship arts, worship ideas

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...