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All of church life is faith formation. The Ministry Lab empowers you to inspire faith that transforms lives.
Find resources for all areas of Faith Formation in our lib guides, including:
Leaders
Our curated list of Leader resources related to developing skilled, confident, safe leaders for faith formation across generations. Here you’ll find:
- Boundaries & Safety
- Digital/Hybrid Ministry
- Leadership Skills – In Our Library
- Mentors & Volunteers
- Revamping Faith Formation
- Sabbath & Rest
- Technology – Boundaries
- Trainings & Webinars
- Young Leaders
See our Leadership lib guide for additional resources on:
- Adaptive Leadership
- Care for Caregivers
- Change/Conflict
- Discernment/Vocation
- Leadership Development
- Volunteers & Teams
Create safe(r) spaces:
Start with Anti-Racism work with all:
Develop hospitality with/for:
- 2SLGBTQ folx
- Multicultural/Multiracial Congregations
- Multilingual/Multimedia Resources
- People with Special Needs & Neurodiverse persons
Great Idea
Generated by The Ministry Lab’s partners, congregational leaders and director. If you’ve got a Great Idea to share, let us know!
MULTI-GENERATIONAL ODYSSEY
Here’s a mash-up of emerging resources around Homer’s Odyssey – complete with discussion questions, spiritual practice, and engagement prompts.
Read more here.
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Children & Families
Find our entire Children’s Book lending library selection in our Children’s Books lib guide.
Find reading and multi-media lists for just about all areas of ministry with Children & Families in our themed lib guides:
- Antiracism: Children & Families
- Backpack/Back-to-School Sunday
- Bible with Children
- Children’s Ministry
- First Communion
- Grief & Trauma with Children and Families
- Hybrid Ministry
- Nursery
- Prayer & Worship with Children
- Sexuality & Gender Identity with Children
For At-Home Faith Formation, see our Family Faith guides, including:
- Grandparents
- Parenting
- Prayer
- Raising Confident Kids
- Raising Confident Tweens & Teens
- Spiritual Practices
- Grief & Trauma with Children & Families
Tweens & Teens
Engage youth in faith formation and spiritual growth as they grow in personal awareness and develop social engagement and leadership skills with resources for:
Adults
- Anti-Racism with Adults
- Bible Studies
- Exploring Emerging, Progressive, and Traditional Doctrines & Theologies
- Grief & Trauma with Adults
- Sexuality & Gender Identity
- Small Group Studies (create/lead/support)
See also our expanded Spiritual Practices lib guide for a plethora of resources for Contemplation, Prayer, Meditation, and other resources.
Going Intergenerational?
We’ve got:
- Activity Suggestions & How-To Tips
- Arts/Messy Church resources
- Websites & Curricula for creating intergenerational ministry opportunities
And ideas for ministry with all ages in these specific areas:
For Innovative Ministries
See our Reimagining Church guide for innovations in all areas of church life, particularly:
- Adaptive Leadership
- Change / Conflict
- Contemplative Activism
- Digital / Hybrid Ministry
- Emerging Theologies
- New Good News
- Reclaiming Rural / Small
- Reorienting
- Restructuring
- Rethinking Worship
- Revamping Faith Formation
Insights and ideas from these specific areas might also be inspiring:
Learn More
Have something you’d like to discuss? Need to check out resources? Share questions, interests and ideas with The Ministry Lab’s Executive Director, Rev. Emily Meyer or search our site.