I (Jodi) have a confession to make: I don’t like Christmas pageants. It's not just the significant planning that they can require. …
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I (Jodi) have a confession to make: I don’t like Christmas pageants. It's not just the significant planning that they can require. …
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Growing up our family had one of the Avon Christmas Count-Down Calendars from 1987 with the mouse that moved from one …
I’ve written about how to build a checkout library for children and households before in Creating a Children’s Lending Library for …
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About a year ago, our Children’s Formation Committee decided to make a big change to the children's formation program. Our …
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Looking for the “best” curriculum for your children's ministry? There are many options from a variety of publishers and …
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May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the U.S. The theme that the Federal Asian Pacific …
During the Easter season of 2020, when Christian formation could not take place onsite, I led an online intergenerational …
March is Women’s History Month in the U.S., and the theme chosen by the National Women’s History Alliance for 2023 is “Celebrating …
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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 …
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If you’re busy organizing children’s, youth, adult, or parish-wide programs for Lent and Holy Week, we’ve got you. We have …
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