Does your congregation try to engage parents in practicing faith at home? In today’s world, many parents did not grow up with any faith practices or traditions that they can pass on to their children or practice as a family.
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Reflection Questions for Parents
Posted by Sharon Pearson on April 30th, 2012
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Comments OffChildren’s Health & Healthy Aging
Posted by Sharon Pearson on April 29th, 2012
The Eco-Justice Network of the National Council of Churches is hosting two webinars about environmental health, and to learn how we can improve the health of God’s people through healthy, mindful living from the womb through old age.
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Tags: children's ministry, environment, older adult ministry, parents, resources Comments OffBully – The Movie
Posted by Sharon Pearson on April 20th, 2012
I can’t tell you whether the “f” word was used or implied with a bleep. I can’t tell you how many times the bullies did horrible things to the boy on the bus. I can’t even tell you if what I saw was rated R or PG-13. What I can tell you is that I will be taking my youth group to see this film.
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Tags: Bully - The Movie, bullying, movies, parents, The Hunger Games, youth ministry 2 Comments »Swan Song: Churching Youth or Resourcing Youth for Mission?
Posted by Sharon Pearson on February 29th, 2012
Like the adult swans, we adults in the congregation are too quick to chase out youth from the church by making the Sunday worship unwelcoming and largely irrelevant to our young people. Okay, so we don’t bloody our youth or physically evict them from the Church, but we instinctually find means to demonstrate the ways they don’t measure up to our goals for them.
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Tags: Christian formation, family ministry, parents, youth ministry Comments Off9 Ways to Create Worship Services
Posted by Sharon Pearson on January 24th, 2012
Start by being clear about your purpose: the formation of hearts and minds and souls in community. From this will follow intentionality about the content of the service. For me, the “stuff” of Christian family liturgy is hospitality, compassionate loving, mystery, inclusivity, social justice and servant leadership.
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Tags: adults, children's ministry, Christian formation, family ministry, hospitality, intergenerational, parents, prayer, worship, youth ministry 1 Comment »How Adults Can Nurture Children’s Spirituality
Posted by Sharon Pearson on January 17th, 2012
We know that children come to us with an innate spirituality, but that spirituality is very vulnerable to the cultural forces that devalue it.
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Tags: children's ministry, Christian formation, Godly Play, Jerome Berryman, parents, spirituality, teacher training Comments OffChildren’s Spirituality
Posted by Sharon Pearson on January 10th, 2012
Understanding the spiritual lives of children is important to our identity as Christians. Jesus told us that in order to enter the kingdom of heaven we need to become like children. However, as is often the case with Jesus, he did not tell us how to do that.
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Tags: children's ministry, Christian formation, faith development, parents, spirituality, teacher training, youth ministry 1 Comment »Teach Teens to “Talk Back”
Posted by Sharon Pearson on January 5th, 2012
Good arguments can provide lessons that last a lifetime. But psychologist Joseph P. Allen’s research shows that yelling isn’t the answer. “The teens who learned to be calm and confident and persuasive with their parents acted the same way when they were with their peers,” he says.
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Posted by Sharon Pearson on December 22nd, 2011
As we become a global society, more intercultural and “blended” in our extended families, more and more children are being raised in homes where more than one faith tradition is practiced. While differences may be more pronounced during the holiday season, it can still be challenging to provide children a grounded faith while not confusing them at the same time.
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Tags: adults, children's ministry, Christianity, discernment, family ministry, parents, spirituality Comments OffGod and the Santa Myth
Posted by Sharon Pearson on December 14th, 2011
Many children express the thought that God and Santa Claus are brothers. Teens report that when they stopped believing in Santa Claus they wondered whether or not God was real. It is not surprising that children can confuse the two and have similar questions and doubts.
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Tags: children's ministry, Christmas, family ministry, God, parents, Santa Claus, traditions Comments OffWhen You Thought I Wasn’t Looking
Posted by Sharon Pearson on November 13th, 2011
When you thought I wasn’t looking I heard you say a prayer, and I knew that there is a God I could always talk to, and trust.
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Tags: children's ministry, Christian formation, communication, family ministry, parents, spirituality, teacher training Comments OffReaching Bullies
Posted by Sharon Pearson on November 4th, 2011
It’s easy to scoop up little ones and want to protect them from their aggressors, but who’s reaching the bullies? As the parent of a child with Autism, I know the pain parents feel when bullies victimize children who can’t defend themselves. As a Christian, my heart also melts for the kids who become bullies. What does the future hold for them?
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