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Why We Chose the Episcopal Children’s Curriculum
"The kids love it, the teens who assist in our Sunday school classes are more excited about teaching, and the parents are happy too. It has been easy to adapt to our needs with no …
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Confirmation: Hope for a Lost Sacrament?
"The Confirmation Project data is convincing. Healthy confirmation programs exist and they can be found in tiny congregations and large program churches across the United …
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Choosing a New Curriculum? Read This First!
"Take a step back to look at the church as a whole, its strengths and weaknesses, its character or ethos, its beliefs and faith identity, among other factors." Matching Resources …
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Mentoring: The Missing Key to Confirmation?
"This modeling of care for the other, illustrated by mentors in their care for confirmands, also teaches confirmands that we are not independent Christians, but part of an …
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Building Faith Does Ash Wednesday: 8 Helpful Posts
"Almighty God, you have created us out of the dust of the earth: Grant that these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and penitence, that we may remember that it is only by …
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Research Supports Renewed Commitment to Confirmation
Today, the Episcopal Church recognizes baptism as full initiation into the Body of Christ, and with that comes admission to Holy Communion. What remains less clear, as expressed …
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Mentors Key to Successful Youth Confirmation Program
“I just hope that it will help me start to build a personal relationship with Jesus and God because it’s just a really hard thing to start if you’re just thinking about it by …
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Family Craft: Thanksgiving Garland
"Give thanks: we do, each in his place around the table during grace." November, John Updike Make a Thanksgiving Garland Thanksgiving is the holiday we most associate …
Building Faith Does Thanksgiving: 7 Helpful Posts
"Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!" -Psalm 107:1 Celebrating Thanksgiving Over the years, Building Faith has …
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