"Live without fear: your Creator has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Go in peace to follow the good road and may God’s blessing be with you …
Blessing Backpacks: Prayer and Resources
"We thank you for this new beginning, for new books and new ideas. We thank you for sharpened pencils, pointy crayons, and crisp blank pages waiting to be …
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Blessing of the Backpacks: 6 Tips for Success
"People will find it easy to say, "Hey, my church is blessing backpacks this Sunday - would you like to come?" This could be one of the best evangelism opportunities of the …
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Grace + Peace: Back to School Blessing Tags & Stickers
It’s almost that time again! The time of year when students, teachers, and staff head back to school and we send them off with a Blessing of the Backpacks, a time where they can …
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Blessing of the Devices
If you are a craftsman . . . only look at your tools, your needle, your thimble, your beer barrel, your articles of trade, your scales, your measures, and you will find this saying …
Focusing Formation Outward into the World
I dream of a church that understands its mission to be sending out agents of transformation into the world so that each person understands themselves as “radically sent.” I …
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A Second Pandemic Program Year: Finding Handholds
My small parish in central North Carolina started gathering for Sunday morning in-person worship again a month ago. Literally, we have physically received Communion together during …
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Pillowcase Prayers
This year, as we continue to be safer at home, we felt home blessings were more vital than backpack blessings." Our church normally does a back to school blessing each year and …
The Sacrament of Back to School
"In that moment, so pregnant with hope, pride, excitement, joy, nervousness, and expectation, we find our everyday sacrament." Sacraments: Those Visible Signs Christians of many …
New Formation Resource Connects Church and Home – Milestones Ministry Manual
Milestones Ministry Manual Vibrant Faith Ministries Cost: $149.95 Milestones Ministry Manual, a recently updated resource to help congregations, homes and communities live into …
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