Children and Families Ministry
MARCH UPDATE
These resources are compiled by Chris Barnett from the Intergenerational Ministry - Children & Families team at equipping Leadership for Mission (eLM) in the Synod of VIC/TAS. Thanks Chris for this valuable resource!
CHILDREN & FAMILIES MINISTRY – MARCH
Lent Ideas
Lent with children (Sacraparental)
An All-Age Lenten Journey (Roots)
Lent at Home in Community (GenOn)
A Lenten Family Devotional (All We Can)
Five fabulous ideas for families (Hope-Filled Family)
Lent & Easter Ideas
In search of Easter (SU)
We Wonder (We Wonder)
Lent & Easter Prayer Ideas (The Well)
Easter Resources (Together at Home)
Last Supper & Crucifixion Storycine (UCA)
via Messy Church
Messy Church at Home – Good Friday
Messy Church at Home – Last Supper
Messy Church at Home – Easter
Messy Church at Home – Emmaus Rd
Messy Church at Home – Thomas
via CRCNA
Why children belong in worship (CRCNA)
Three Actions of Lent (Worship with Children)
Lent with Children: Stations of the Cross (CRCNA)
Spiritual Characteristics of Children and Teens (Faith Alive)
God’s Big Easter Story: a Holy Week journey for families (CRCNA)
Via Practical Resources for Churches (PRC)
On-line Resource Centre (PRC)
Intergenerational Ministry Resources (PRC)
Lenten Resource Round-up – webinar recording (Sharon Pearson)
Easter and Holy Week On-line – webinar recording (Marcia McFee)
The Terror and Grace of Holy Week – webinar recording (Karen Ziel)
Grandparenting and Faith
Biblical Grandparenting (Josh Mulvihill)
Faith-ful grandparenting (Grow Ministries)
The Grandparenting Effect (Trevecca Okholm)
The important role grandparents play (Grow Ministries)
Grandparents matter: grandparenting and faith development (Youthscape)
John Roberto & Faith Formation
Faith Formation 2020 (Roberto)
A hybrid future for faith formation (Roberto)
Creating innovation in faith formation (Roberto)
A guide to transforming faith formation (Roberto)
Planning faith formation in a post-pandemic world (Roberto)
Highlighted 2021 Events (for your diary, watch out for more)
Mar 27 GodSend Downunder App Launch
Apr 22 Messy Discipleship Book Launch (On-line – 1.30pm AEST)
May 22 Stories of Childhood Playgroup/Pre-school Ministry Conference
May 25-27 Children’s Spirituality Summit/InterGenerate (On-line – dates AEST)
Jul 26-28 InterGenerate AUS (Sydney + On-line)
Aug 7 Make it Messy! (Parkville, Melbourne)
Sep 10-12 Leaders to Go (On-line + Hub model)
TBC A national conference is being planned to take place in Manly (NSW) in September 2021 to celebrate 10 years since the launch of Godly Play Australia. Interested people are invited to save the date of the first weekend in September 2021 and watch out for more information.