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Adult Center: Models, Practices, & Trends
The Models section is designed to bring you a variety of practical resources - practices, models, approaches, and case studies - for envisioning and designing faith formation with adults today. We will include materials in print, audio, and video formats from a variety of sources, including examples of adult faith formation in churches across the country. To select an article or media presentation just click on the title. For some of the links you will be going directly to the website with the information.
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Spiritual Vitality after 70: Theory & Practice - Lisa Kimball and Dorothy Linthicum
(Center for the Ministry of Teaching, Virginia Theological Seminary, www.vts.edu/cmt)The workshop package, Spirituality After 70, includes the Handout with descriptions and statistics, developmental and physical attributes, and programming ideas and paradigms for churches; a powerpoint presentation, and I Am Old - an essay with insights about older people.
Spiritual Vitality after 70: Theory & Practice - Lisa Kimball and Dorothy Linthicum
(Center for the Ministry of Teaching, Virginia Theological Seminary, www.vts.edu/cmt)The workshop package, Spirituality After 70, includes the Handout with descriptions and statistics, developmental and physical attributes, and programming ideas and paradigms for churches; a powerpoint presentation, and I Am Old - an essay with insights about older people.
Adult Learning - United Church of Canada: www.united-church.ca/adultlearning
The Adult Learning website of The United Church of Canada, provides practices, programs, suggestions, and processes that are working for them in a variety of situations, such as: men’s programs, resources for small groups, Lectio Divina, spirituality in the middle years, support at the time of loss, work and spirituality, book studies, Scripture study, growing through spiritual practices, and living faith through action.
Best Practices in Adult Faith Formation - John Roberto & Cathy Minkiewicz
This article draws on a number of studies and sources to identify nine practices that contribute to effectiveness in adult faith formation, and how these practices can be used to design and implement adult faith formation in congregations. The article offers practical suggestions for utilizing each practice in adult faith formation, and a planning tool for reflecting on the practices and charting directions for the continued development of adult faith formation.
(Source: Lifelong Faith Journal, www.LifelongFaith.com)
Best Practices in Adult Faith Formation Study - Faith Formation Matters (www.janetschaeffler.com)
These monthly newsletters report on the results of an international study on best practices in adult faith formation.
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)
Planning for Adult Faith Formation - Pam Coster
If churches are to engage 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)
The Adult Learning website of The United Church of Canada, provides practices, programs, suggestions, and processes that are working for them in a variety of situations, such as: men’s programs, resources for small groups, Lectio Divina, spirituality in the middle years, support at the time of loss, work and spirituality, book studies, Scripture study, growing through spiritual practices, and living faith through action.
Best Practices in Adult Faith Formation - John Roberto & Cathy Minkiewicz
This article draws on a number of studies and sources to identify nine practices that contribute to effectiveness in adult faith formation, and how these practices can be used to design and implement adult faith formation in congregations. The article offers practical suggestions for utilizing each practice in adult faith formation, and a planning tool for reflecting on the practices and charting directions for the continued development of adult faith formation.
(Source: Lifelong Faith Journal, www.LifelongFaith.com)
Best Practices in Adult Faith Formation Study - Faith Formation Matters (www.janetschaeffler.com)
These monthly newsletters report on the results of an international study on best practices in adult faith formation.
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)
Planning for Adult Faith Formation - Pam Coster
If churches are to engage 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)
