Adult Faith Formation: A Catholic Vision - Edmund Gordon
Ed Gordon's essay offers insights and practices for adult faith formation around four major areas: the adult learner, the teacher of adults, the content of adult faith formation, and the methods of adult faith.
(Source: LIfelong Faith Journal, www.LifelongFaith.com) 

Adult Faith Formation at the Crossroads - Catherine Minkiewicz
Cathy Minkiewicz reflects on adult faith formation through the lens of the Emmaus Story in the Gospel of Luke and offers insights and wisdom for all church leaders. 
(Source: LIfelong Faith Journal, www.LifelongFaith.com)
 
Adult Faith Formation: Will It Catch On This Time - Jane Regan
Jane Regan poses the question: if we have been talking about this for over 30 years, why does the vision of vibrant parishes with adult faith formation at the center of community life still seem so far away? It is the rare parish that sees the faith formation of adults as an essential component of the faith formation of children and youth. Rarer still is the parish that places the faith of adults at the center of the work of catechesis. She writes that what is needed are not more programs but the genuine investment of focused energy and resources to make fundamental shifts in how we think about parish life, adult faith formation, and the mission of the church.
(Source: America Magazine, www.americamagazine.org)

Churches Responding to the Age Way: Top Innovations in Older Adult Ministry - Amy Hanson
America is aging and older adult ministry of today is not the same as it was 30 years ago. A one size fits all approach to ministry has been replaced with a variety of fresh ideas that recognize the multiple needs, interests, and abilities of older adults.
(Source: Leadership Network, www.leadnet.org)

Creating New Ways for Adults to Serve - Amy Hanson
Across the nation, both secular organizations and faith-based communities are recognizing the invaluable resource resident in older adults. A number of leading churches in older adult ministry are finding creative ways of engaging their people in ministry and encouraging them to use their time and resources for Kingdom expansion.
(Source: Leadership Network, www.leadnet.org)

Faith Formation for Every Adult in Your Church - John Roberto
How can we utilize the life of our church community; the variety of excellent print, audio, and visual resources; the variety of learning models; and the new digital and online technologies to develop a faith formation plan that addresses the wide diversity of interests, religious and spiritual needs, and life tasks and situations of today’s adults. This article describes the concept of an “Adult Faith Formation Learning Resources System” as a way to provide faith formation for every adult in your church and offers practical tools to help you build a learning resource system in your church.
(Source: LIfelong Faith Journal, www.LifelongFaith.com) 

Faith Formation with Maturing Adults - Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson outlines sixteen fundamental tasks, overarching units of faith-work, which serve as the scaffolding for comprehensive faith formation programs for maturing adults. These tasks not only guide church leaders in constructing fundamental and functional faith formation ministries, they also act as spiritual development handholds for maturing adults as they work toward a greater realization of God’s presence in their lives. These sixteen tasks help illustrate a sense of purpose for maturing adults in the Christian community, and give leaders the necessary vocabulary to conceptualize and converse about maturing adult faith formation in entirely new ways.
(Source: Lifelong Faith Journal, www.LifelongFaith.com)

Planning for Adult Faith Formation - Pam Coster
If churches are to have engaged members who are satisfied with life, invite others to participate in their church, serve others, and give more financially to their church, they must consider how they are facilitating the four shifts to a church which values its adults, helps them reflect theologically on their lives, and gives them opportunities to be in conversation with other believers so that they may go into the world and be on the mission of Jesus Christ. Pam Coster's essay provides a vision for adult formation and a guide to planning adult faith formation that seeks the four shifts churches need to make. 
(Source: LIfelong Faith Journal, www.LifelongFaith.com) 

Understanding Today's Adult Learner - Jane Hart
Part One of this essay looks at what the research tells us about the characteristics of today’s learners (aka Learners 2.0), and how they best learn. Part Two reports on interviews with eLearning Guild members on how they perceive learners today, and how they are addressing their needs. Part Three looks at the importance for learning and development professionals to experience being a Learner 2.0 in order to advise on appropriate new learning approaches
(Source: eLearning Guild's Learning Solutions E-Magazine, www.elearningguild.com)