Faith 5 Road Tour & Training
Welcome to the 15th Anniversary Road Tour!
We are honored to have you here as we begin to rethink Christian education at your church as a signifi cant, intentional, consistent partnership with parents... every night in every home. Here’s what our time together will look like.
1:00 pm
Rethinking Family Ministry as Families DOING Ministry
What might your church look like three years from today if the majority of your households were setting aside time each night to share highs and lows, read a verse of Scripture, talk about their day, pray, and bless one another? In this session we will walk through fi ve simple steps to begin pulling parents into the process of their own kids faith lives... every night in every home.
1:45 pm
Rethinking Preschool Ministries as Family Ministry
The easiest and most powerful time to begin a meaningful nightly faith walk in a family is when children (and parents) are young. Faith Songs, prayer and nightly blessings can begin here and stay with the family throughout their lives. We’ll ask a few key questions, then explore some simple nightly faith rituals every family can do tonight to begin a rich parent/child faith walk as a family.
2:15 pm
Rethinking Children’s Ministries as Family Ministry
As children begin to move out into the world, adding a few simple communication techniques can help nurture the family. We’ll discuss the power and practice of “Highs and Lows” and a Bible verse reading and songs that can bring God’s wisdom and insight into the nightly family rituals.
3:15 pm
Rethinking Confi rmation Ministry as Family Ministry
Adolescence is no time to stop the family conversations and care. Time to kick it into high gear! Deepen the nightly faith talk by inviting everyone to mix the Bible verse and their “highs and lows” together. They’ll be doing theology every night in every home. (Text... context!) 4:00 pm Rethinking Youth Ministry as Family Ministry You don’t stop the race on the second to last lap! We’ll discuss models that ordain (set aside) small groups of youth into signifi cant servant ministries of the church while encouraging them to commit to continued nightly faith time with parents as long as they’re still at home.
4:45 pm
Getting Started (without getting fired)
Momma always said, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” What can you do to get moving in the direction of redefi ning family ministry at your church? We’ll tackle this before breaking for dinner.
7:00 pm
Evening Event: “Working on the Dream”
I’ll model an event that will call parents to joining the new family ministry team at the host church. Take notes and take names! You’ll be doing this yourself when you return home.
8:30 pm
Strategic Assessment
We’ll wrap up by reviewing the day’s work, the family ministry theory, and by taking a look at challenges you’ll face when you go home to implement this parent partnership. Done by 9!
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Faith Stepping Stones is a family ministry system that pulls parents into the role of primary faith mentors for their own children every night in every home. Faith incubation doesn't happen in a vacuum. It doesn't happen over night. It must be nurtured over time. Faith Stepping Stones is a process that bonds parents and children into the body of Christ at eight crucial moments in parenting and leads them to incubate faith every night in every home. It provides faith-based parenting education from cradle to graduation through a series of eight short-courses. Each course brings parents and children together for fun and learning, and ends at the altar with a special blessing service.
Through this process, parents and children develop nightly faith practices that includes blessing, prayer, scripture reading, sharing of Highs & Lows, faith dialogue, and a nightly "I'm sorry" before turning out the lights on the day. This "every night in every home" ritual blesses the child, gifts the family, and calls parents to their promise while incubating faith.
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