Children & Family Archives

Summer Formation Bingo: A Family or Church-wide Challenge

As the daylight creeps longer and trees begin to blossom, I put away our boots and mittens for (hopefully) a few months and dig …

During the Easter season of 2020, when Christian formation could not take place onsite, I led an online intergenerational …

Throughout the church year, many appropriate opportunities for gift-giving arise, including confirmation, graduation, and thanks …

Building Faith’s annual VBS curriculum review is here! If your community is gearing up for a summer Vacation Bible School or camp …

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 …

Advent packs so many rich symbols into a few short weeks. While family time is often scarce, we have found that families try …

Writing is a way of paying close attention to our lives. Finding just the right words to describe our thoughts, emotions, and …

As we continue our transition back to in-person work, ministry, and gatherings of all kinds, creating opportunities to foster …

Families in our parish are eager to “be the hands and feet of Jesus” in our community and we strive to do a service project every …

Many churches offer a Blessing of the Animals in honor of the Feast of St. Francis, on or near October 4th. We bless our pets …