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HOME PRACTICES

HOME PRACTICES

Home practices are ideas, resources, and activities that nurture spiritual development in a home setting rather than in a church setting.

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RESOURCES FOR
DISCIPLES OF ALL AGES

The Importance of Faith at Home

When households practice faith at home, everyone can grow closer to God. Research shows that children and youth whose families participate in Christian conversations, Bible reading, traditions, and prayer are more likely to claim their faith as adults. Church leaders have a special role to play in encouraging and equipping families to connect Sunday worship with life at home.

Building Faith’s “Home Practices” are do-able, adaptable, fun, and meaningful. These activities can be used by households of all shapes and sizes, including singles, friends, couples, children, teens, and parents.


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“Table Talk” is the New Normal: Supporting Faith Conversations at Home

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Blessing Children in the Home

David Gortner and Heather VanDeventer

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Summer Formation Bingo: A Family or Church-wide Challenge

Kelli Sieplinga Dunn (she/her/hers)

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Fall Faith-at-Home Bags

Kristin Krantz (she/her/hers)

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The Wondering Together Project: A Simple Tool For These Hard Times

Sally Thomas (she/her/hers)

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Handouts for Observing Liturgical Seasons at Home

Jennifer McNally & Anna V. Ostenso Moore

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Editors’ Picks


Journaling in Ordinary Time: A Simple, Meaningful Spiritual Practice

Graphic with 4 vertical rectangular panels in red, yellow, blue, and white, showing text "Say it," "Pray it," "Live it," and "The Big Way of Love for Kids" with black silhouette illustrations of four children; first child on the left has hair in a ponytail, second child has short wavy hair and is sitting in a wheelchair and holding a pinwheel, third child has long hair and is walking or running hand in hand with a shorter child with short hair

“The BIG Way of Love for Kids”: A Child-Centered Formation Resource

Wide view of garden with raised beds bordered by wood, a dirt path between beds, and a wooden cross in the background; sign in bed in the foreground says "This is a Good News Garden! Plant, Pray, Proclaim"

Good News Gardens: A Movement to Steward and Care for Creation

Close-up of lit purple candle in front of a blurred unlit purple candle and a dark blue background

The Sacredness of the Waiting: An Advent Reflection with a Wreath Lighting Liturgy

Aerial view of baking equipment and ingredients with a book open to "A Liturgy for Bread Baking" on a light brown wooden surface; items include (left to right, clockwise) a brown bag of flour, a dark bowl holding light brown flour, open book, 4 metal measuring spoons with the smallest holding a light brown dry ingredient, and a ceramic jar filled with a white dry ingredient and ceramic lid

Baking as Prayer

An end view of four thick hardback books stacked on top of one another with (in order from top to bottom) ivory, teal, red and beige, and yellow covers in front of a blurred background in dark and light gray

Building Faith’s Top Picks for Devotionals

Front cover of the book "The Beauty of Motherhood" on top of a white stuffed toy, a blue blanket, a pink cloth, and a multi-colored rug

A Balm for Spiritually Weary Mamas: A Devotional to Use at Home or Church

Chalking the Door: An Epiphany Tradition

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