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Welcome to Lifelong Faith
Providing the resources, training, & assistance to help leaders
​develop faith formation for all ages and generations

Participate in the New Family & Intergenerational Survey

We are conducting a national study to identify how well churches are implementing practices of family faith formation and intergenerational ministry and faith formation. The survey is designed so that every church can participate in this study. 

Through the survey we hope to identify churches that are offering family and/or intergenerational faith formation programming at their church so that we can create a report with models and examples to help all churches embrace family and intergenerational models of faith formation. 
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The results of the survey and models will be available to all churches. We really appreciate your time in completing this survey and describing what you are doing. Please complete the survey by April 3, 2023.
Go to SurveyMonkey to Complete the Family & Intergenerational Survey

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The 2023 Symposium
Connecticut, Tampa, Chicago, San Francisco

Building a Church Culture of ​Lifelong Faith Formation

Every church wants to nurture a vibrant and vital faith in all ages and generations.
​Learn how to make it happen.​
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Click here to register for a Symposium and find more information. Space is limited at each retreat house.
The Faith for a Lifetime Symposium will explore how every church community can foster the faith of every age and generation - for a lifetime. The two-day Symposium will focus on the "how to" of building a culture of lifelong faith growth in today's world. 

Why focus on culture? Culture is to church what a soul is to the body. It is an overall life force that the Holy Spirit uses to give energy, personality, and uniqueness to everything a body of believers says and does. Church culture influences everything we do. It has a huge impact of how faith is nurtured and grows in a church community. A church's culture is the lens through which we view the community's life. If you change the lens, you change the outlook. Change the culture, and everything else changes, including the future. 

So how do we create a culture that nurtures and nourishes faith for a lifetime? The Symposium is designed to help you and your church answer that question with vision, practices, and tools. You will create initiatives that build a culture of lifelong learning and faith formation in your church. 

Every participant will create a blueprint for making their church a community that fosters Faith for a Lifetime.

Resources to Guide You in ​Developing Lifelong Faith Formation

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Goals for Maturing
in Faith

Goals
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Models of Lifelong
​Faith Formation

Models
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Pathways for Personalizing Formation

Pathways
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Intergenerational
​Faith Formation

Intergenerational
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Networks for Forming Faith with All Ages

Networks
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Playlists for Engaging All Ages in Faith Formation

Playlists
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Family Faith Formation

Family
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Hybrid 
​​Faith Formation

Hybrid
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​Purchase the Book

Church Publishing

Amazon.com
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​Bookshop.org ​ ​

All of the Lifelong Faith Websites

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LifelongFaithTraining.com provides free video-based training developed by the Lifelong Faith Team of veteran faith formation leaders. Our goal is to equip leaders with the knowledge, practices, and skills for designing, leading, and organizing lifelong faith formation in their churches. Each video program is one hour in length, presented in multiple parts for easy viewing, and includes a "Resources" page with articles and design tools. 

The videos are design to inform and equip leaders and teams to design and lead faith formation. 
​The video programs are designed for "just in time" learning so that you and your team can watch a video presentation and use the tools to design programming. The videos can be used in a variety of ways: 1) For personal enrichment and on-your-own learning, 2) For training your team(s), 3) For preparation to design faith formation initiatives and programming, 4) For facilitating a course or workshop, and more​.
​​Training Programs & Presenters
  • ​Children's Faith Formation - with Dr. Tanya Campen
  • Adolescent Faith Formation - with Rev. Michael Droege
  • Young Adult Faith Formation - with Sarah Jarzembowski
  • Adult Faith Formation - with Janet Schaeffler, OP
  • Family Faith Formation - with Denise Utter
  • Intergenerational faith formation - with Dr. Kathie Amidei
  • Milestones Faith Formation - with Debbie Streicher
  • Lifelong Faith Formation Models - with Catherine LaVecchia 
  • Faith Pathways - with Rev. Kathy Pittenger
  • Playlist Faith Formation - with Rev. Kathy Pittenger
  • Community and Relationship Building - with Jane Angha 
  • Organizing for Faith Formation - with Rev. Christine Hides
  • Design & Implementation of Programming - with Jim Merhaut
Go to Lifelong Faith Training

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The Lifelong Faith Studio provides curated digital resources - from a variety of Christian faith traditions - for children, adolescents, adults, and families ​to assist leaders in building networks of faith formation and playlists of learning. ​

​We have selected a variety of digital resources that are either free or low cost that you can use to develop online faith formation programming for all ages in your faith community in virtual and blended settings. 


The resources listed can be used in designing online and hybrid faith formation programming and playlists, and adding content to faith formation websites for children, adolescents, adults, families, and all generations. 
Content Areas 
​The curated resources in the Studio are organized around the ten goals for maturing in faith described in the Lifelong Faith book.
  1. Bible
  2. Christian Story
  3. Community Life 
  4. Jesus
  5. Discipleship
  6. Gifts & Talents
  7. Justice & Service
  8. Moral Life
  9. Prayer
  10. Worship & Liturgy & Seasons of the Year 
Go to the Lifelong Faith Studio

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L​earning Programs designed for Intergenerational & Family Faith Formation
All Resources Are Free for Church Use
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The Intergenerational Faith website provides dozens of learning programs on a variety of faith themes for churches to use in intergenerational and family faith formation programming. All churches have permission to download, print, and adapt the materials for their use. The learning session comes in a PDF and a Word file; handouts are in Word files.

The learning model for each of the sessions incorporates four movements. 
  1. All-Ages Learning Experience for the whole assembly that introduces the theme or topic for the program.
  2. In-Depth Learning Experiences that probe the theme or topic, organized for all ages (intergenerational) or for specific age-groups (families with children or children-only, adolescents, young adults, and adults), and conducted in one of three formats: 
  3. All-Ages Contributive Learning Experience in which each generation teaches the other generations.
  4. Interactive Sharing in which people reflect upon the learning experience, share their insights with each other, prepare for living their faith at home and in daily life.
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Intergenerational and Family Sessions

Christian Practices (10 sessions)

The Creed and Christian Beliefs (6 sessions)

Jesus and Discipleship (6 sessions)

Justice, Peace, and Care for Creation (6 sessions)

Moral Living (6 sessions)

Prayer (6 sessions)

Sacraments [Catholic] (6 sessions)

Intergenerational Faith Website

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This website is developed by John Roberto as a service of Lifelong Faith Associates - committed to helping churches develop lifelong faith formation for all ages and generations.
John Roberto
 Lifelong Faith Associates
133 Old Towne Road, Cheshire, CT 06410
203-232-1129
​  jroberto@lifelongfaith.com 
  • Home
    • About John Roberto
    • Lifelong Faith Team
    • Vancouver
    • Archdiocese of Chicago
    • FORMA Conference
    • Lifelong Faith Course - Presbyterian Church in Canada
  • Faith for a Lifetime
    • Lifelong Faith Course
  • Lifelong Vision & Practices
    • Goals
    • Intergenerational
    • Family
    • Networks
    • Hybrid
    • Pathways
    • Playlists >
      • Digital Tools & Apps >
        • Learning Apps
    • Models
  • Christian Practices
    • Caring for the Body
    • Celebrating Life
    • Discernment
    • Eating Well
    • Forgiveness
    • Keeping Sabbath
    • Managing Household Life
    • Participating in Community
    • Prayer
    • Reading the Bible
  • Digital Ministry
  • Library
    • Lifelong Faith Articles
    • Books
    • Journal
    • Virtual VBS