Pathways for Personalizing Faith Formation |
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"Pathways for Personalizing Faith Formation" for the complete presentation. |
Personalizing faith formation addresses the diverse faith growth needs of people by tailoring the environment—what, when, how, and where people learn and grow—to address the spiritual and religious interests and needs of all ages. Faith pathways help people find where they are in their journey and to chart a path for faith growth toward a deeper relationship with Jesus and the life and practices of the Christian community. People should be able to clearly understand where they are in their faith journey and find their next steps forward.
A pathways guide is created around the ten goals for discipleship and maturing in faith so that people can discern their needs, and together with mentors and small groups, develop a personalized faith growth plan that accesses the offerings in the faith formation network a church has created and the activities in specially designed playlists of content (print, audio, video, online) and experiences (intergenerational, family, and age-group programming) to address those needs. Chapter Seven guides you through the process of designing a Pathways Guide for a target audience: life stage or life milestone (such as baptism, first communion, confirmation) or event (such as the seasons of the church year). |
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Application: Pathways Guides
At the end of Chapter Seven are four examples of pathways guides for adults, families, parents, and youth. The document below is a Word version of the four guides to make it easy for you to customize, edit, etc.
| Examples of Pathway Guides from Lifelong Faith Chapter 7.docx |
There are examples of pathways guides on the See All the People from the United Methodist Church. Download “Developing a Discipleship System: A Guide for Congregations” at www.seeallthepeople.org/develop-a-discipleship-system.
Rev. Kathy Pittenger, Director of Children’s Initiatives for the Michigan Conference of the United Methodist Church, has developed two pathways guides - for adults and for children and families. PDF versions of both guides are below.
Rev. Kathy Pittenger, Director of Children’s Initiatives for the Michigan Conference of the United Methodist Church, has developed two pathways guides - for adults and for children and families. PDF versions of both guides are below.
| Faith Growth Pathway - Children & Family.pdf |
| Faith Growth Pathway - Adults.pdf |
