Welcome to Lifelong Faith
Providing the resources, training, & assistance to help leaders
develop faith formation for all ages and generations
The 2023 Symposium - Connecticut and Chicago Locations
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.
Learn how to make it happen.
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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
Goals for Maturing
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Intergenerational
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Family Faith Formation
Hybrid
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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
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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.
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Learning Programs designed for Intergenerational & Family Faith Formation
All Resources Are Free for Church Use 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.
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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) |
