Six New Things – Week of November 29, 2021

Find grace and wisdom to help one another hang on, find hope, and thrive as we move into this first week of Advent, with resources for Advent and Christmas; women on the margins and in the middle; African wisdom and African American history;…

Creating a Communal Psalm of Celebration!

Thanks to Faith Network for sharing this Great Idea! Although celebration has been difficult over the past two years, there are still things to celebrate - and celebration remains a faith practice (or spiritual discipline). In a recent…

Illuminated Advent Path

Thanks to Shalom Sonneveldt, Children's Ministry Director at River Terrace Church, East Lansing, MI, for sharing this Great Idea with Network. River Terrace's planned one-hour children's ministry event turned into a two-and-a-half hour intergenerational…

Create-Your-Own Justice Drive

Thanks to Building Faith for sharing this Great Idea! Rachel Doboney Benton's article, Create Your Own Justice Drive: Helping Families Learn, Share, and Pray about God's Work in the World sites research about millennial and Gen Z parents'…

Thanksgiving & Advent Supplemental: 2021

Please Note! The Ministry Lab will be "closed" Nov. 22-26. Six New Things will resume regular posting on Monday, November 29. In the meantime, we thought some last-minute seasonal resources wouldn't go amiss! Six New Things See our…

The Great [Insert Your Church] Baking Show

Thanks to Andrea McKellar (Digital Ministry Coordinator, St Stephen's Episcopal Church, Charleston, NC) for creating and Lisa Brown (Building Faith) for sharing this Great Idea! Andrea McKellar coordinated this multi-generational faith formation…

Six New Things – Week of November 15, 2021

There is a direct correlation between how a culture treats women and how it treats Earth. At the close of the COP26 Summit, it's time to rethink how we treat both - redefining "strength" and embracing vulnerability as we go. ONE We might start…

Thinking in a New Way Re. Gift Giving

Thanks to Lindy Zabel and Tammy Kuntz for sharing this Great Idea!! In her newsletter, Tammy Kuntz of the North Central Jurisdiction United Methodist Volunteers in Mission "ponders the media's messaging about a possible holiday gift shortage,…

Six New Things – Week of November 8, 2021

It's Native American Heritage Month. Thanksgiving is just around the corner. And fast on its heals are Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. If these next few weeks always feel like a sprint, we're here to help you get out of the blocks with grace: ONE Support…

INTERGENERATIONAL PAGEANT / LITURGY

This Great Idea is a Ministry Lab original - and is multiple Great Ideas in one: small group and intergenerational learning opportunities community building creative arts and tech for all ages and a full worship service that is…