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Evaluating a Program: One Church’s Process and Lessons Learned
About a year ago, our Children’s Formation Committee decided to make a big change to the children’s formation program. Our church had used age grouping for its Sunday School classes for a long time,...
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Summer Reading Picks from Publishers for Formation Leaders
Summer can be a great time to dive into a book or two (or more!). If you want to do some summer reading and would like to add a book about ministry to your list, we’ve got a selection of...
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2023 Forma Annual Conference: Called to Covenant
Forma’s annual conference is right around the corner, January 17 – 19, 2023, and all Christian educators and formation leaders, lay and ordained, are invited to attend! It will be a wonderful...
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Leading Adult Bible Study: Cultivating Empowering Experiences
Bible study in community can be a profoundly enriching experience for adults. Familiar stories can spark fresh insights. A text by ancient communities that brought comfort, wisdom, and transformative...
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New Advent Resources for Adult Formation in 2022
A number of new resources that can help adults explore Advent are available this year. If you are interested in formation resources to use or share with adults in your community this Advent, this...
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Annual Planning Calendar Templates: Years A + B + C
After phone calls, emails, text messages, and social media queries here are three Educational Planning Calendars for your formation needs following the three lectionary cycles: Years A, B, and C. I...
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21st Century Faith Formation Trends
In Fashion Me A People: Curriculum in the Church (1989), Maria Harris writes, “Now we are in a time of movement toward a broader, more inclusive, and more complete understanding of what it means to...
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Hospitality for Online & Onsite Participants During Hybrid Formation
Two years ago, I thought of “hybrid ministry” as something that cutting-edge, super- hip formation leaders were doing—not my intergenerational parish formation program led by a 30-something,...
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Faith Formation with Midlife Adults
For ministry to connect with midlife adults, church leaders must be conversant in the values and convictions of Generation X. Approaches described here, however, will be relevant for all people at...
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Digital Faith Formation: 7 Practices for Intentional Gatherings
If I were asked to teach a digital faith formation class two years ago, I would have written out my flipchart notes onto PowerPoint slides and run my class exactly as I would have if we were gathered...
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Webinar: Cultivating Mentoring Relationships for Formation
We often hear the word “mentor” used casually to describe someone who has made a deep impact on someone’s life either personally or professionally. Some churches harness the power of this specific...
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Asking Better Questions to Spark Faith Formation
A friend had recently committed to mentoring a teenage girl and asked me for help because she was having trouble getting into conversation with her new mentee. Her conventional approach to engaging...
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Creating an Agenda for the Future of Faith Formation
We are on the doorstep of a new decade. So many of the trends and challenges we experience today were just emerging as this decade began: a 10-decade life span, the millennial generation starting...
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Focusing Formation Outward into the World
I dream of a church that understands its mission to be sending out agents of transformation into the world so that each person understands themselves as “radically sent.” I envision the...
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Christian Summer Camp Has Lasting Impacts
More than 2 million young people attend Christian camps in the United States every summer. Data from the National Study of Youth and Religion indicate that 39% of all American teenagers have been to a...
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Faith Formation with Older Adults
When asked, “Who is your target audience?” most church leaders will say young people, Millennials, young families, or the unchurched. Yet who are sitting in the pews, or serving on altar guilds, or...
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Faith Formation with Young Adults
As a dedicated faith formation resource person with a specialization in digital media, I have observed that young adult ministers are asking very different questions from other age-based or lifelong...
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Future of Adult Faith Formation
The 2015 National Symposium on the Future of Adult Faith engaged more than 100 Christian faith formation leaders in analyzing the forces affecting the lives of adults and faith communities today,...
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Matching Resources to Our Identity
Every year in late summer, the Center for the Ministry of Teaching (CMT) gets phone calls and emails from alumni, clergy, and lay formation leaders who are looking for the perfect curriculum for their...
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Teens Teach Adults About Dismantling Racism
What happens when we let young people lead? Members of Calvary Episcopal Church are not new to being led by our youth: we’ve hosted events to raise money for Heifer Fair, served meals at Tender...
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