Building Faith
When I started at St. John’s in Olney, Maryland, the church's biggest challenge was children's ministry. In its recent past, the congregation had a boisterous 1990s version of …
Continue Reading about Prayer Partners: Building Intentional, Intergenerational Community
Looking for the “best” intergenerational ministry curriculum? There are a variety of options from different publishers and denominations. The right choice depends entirely …
Continue Reading about Building Faith’s Top Picks for Intergenerational Curriculum
As the church enters a new normal with COVID and people are moving back into the busy-ness of life, how can we be meaningfully present to one another? One way is to …
Continue Reading about Intergenerational Celebrations Using “Faithful Families”
Writing is a way of paying close attention to our lives. Finding just the right words to describe our thoughts, emotions, and experiences can be an act of holy gratitude and a way …
Continue Reading about Gathering to Write: An Intergenerational Advent Practice
Oh, the joys of the season of lights! We decorate our parishes and homes and open our hearts with expectation of what this new season will bring. But can there really be a quiet …
Continue Reading about Preparing our Hearts for Advent: An Intergenerational Celebration
Pentecost provides a lot of wonderful images to center interactive prayer stations around: birthday, fire, breath, and wind – just to name a few. Below are ideas for …
Continue Reading about Intergenerational Prayer Stations for Pentecost
In 2021, I developed an Advent reflection series to go with the Seeking Shalom (Isaiah) resources that I had previously created, and I really loved doing it. People who …
Continue Reading about Advent: Something is Coming! A Five-Week Intergenerational Resource
Join us on Tuesday, October 5th from 3:00 – 4:00 PM EDT for a live Zoom presentation on intergenerational church ministry. Register here. Please note, this is a live event. A …
Continue Reading about Building Faith Basics: Intergenerational Ministry 101
We started as old and new friends for a Saturday morning book club at a coffee shop. We read and discussed the first chapter of the first book and then decided it was more …
Continue Reading about Time to Rekindle Relationships: 9 Fall Ideas for Intergenerational Ministry
My earliest memory of church was when I was four years old at a women’s gathering at my church. I don’t remember if there were other children there or if this was one of the many …
