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Children's Center: Trends & Research
The Trends section is designed to keep you up-to-date on what's happening within our churches and in the broader culture and society that is having an impact on children's faith formation today. What are the most significant trends and issues in our society and culture that are influencing children and their families, and how are churches responding? The Research section is designed to provide reports and summaries of social and religious research studies on children that you can use in teaching and workshops, in program development, and in planning for children's faith formation. To select an article just click on the title. For some of the links you will be going directly to the research study's website.
Trends
The Future of Children's Ministry - Children's Ministry.com
How do children's ministers keep up with the trends that impact children from generation to generation? Children's Ministry Magazine (Group Publishing) researched the trends that will impact children's ministry over the next 10 years and identified six top trends that every church should address in its ministry with children.
(Source: www.childrensministry.com/articles/the-future-of-childrens-ministry)
Trends in Children's Ministry - Christine Yount Jones
In this article Christine Yount Jones, editor of Children's Ministry Magazine (Group Publishing), consulted leading children's ministers, consultants, authors, resource creators, advisors, and professors, to identify four macrotrends that are having an impact on ministry with children today and into the future.
(Source: www.childrensministry.com)
Research
Faith Formation in Children's Ministries Project - Karen-Marie Yust
By examining the broad tendencies of Christian education theories about programming for children, as well as the particular manifestations of these theories and programs in specific local churches, the purpose of the Faith Formation in Children’s Ministries project has been to identify what encourages and what impedes a richer and fuller understanding of Christian faith formation in children.
Positive Youth Development So Far - Peter Benson, Peter Scales, Stephen Hamilton, and Arturo Sesma Jr.
Positive Youth Development first emerged as an approach among practitioners working with young people when they saw the benefits of using strengths-based models with children and adolescents. This issue of the Search Institute's: Insights & Evidence reports on seven hypothesis arising from the research on positive youth development.
(Source: Search Institute, www.search-institute.org)
The Future of Children's Ministry - Children's Ministry.com
How do children's ministers keep up with the trends that impact children from generation to generation? Children's Ministry Magazine (Group Publishing) researched the trends that will impact children's ministry over the next 10 years and identified six top trends that every church should address in its ministry with children.
(Source: www.childrensministry.com/articles/the-future-of-childrens-ministry)
Trends in Children's Ministry - Christine Yount Jones
In this article Christine Yount Jones, editor of Children's Ministry Magazine (Group Publishing), consulted leading children's ministers, consultants, authors, resource creators, advisors, and professors, to identify four macrotrends that are having an impact on ministry with children today and into the future.
(Source: www.childrensministry.com)
Research
Faith Formation in Children's Ministries Project - Karen-Marie Yust
By examining the broad tendencies of Christian education theories about programming for children, as well as the particular manifestations of these theories and programs in specific local churches, the purpose of the Faith Formation in Children’s Ministries project has been to identify what encourages and what impedes a richer and fuller understanding of Christian faith formation in children.
Positive Youth Development So Far - Peter Benson, Peter Scales, Stephen Hamilton, and Arturo Sesma Jr.
Positive Youth Development first emerged as an approach among practitioners working with young people when they saw the benefits of using strengths-based models with children and adolescents. This issue of the Search Institute's: Insights & Evidence reports on seven hypothesis arising from the research on positive youth development.
(Source: Search Institute, www.search-institute.org)
