Planning for Lent 2012
It may be hard to consider plans for Lent 2012 when immersed in the 2011 season of Advent. Begin now to explore education and worship opportunities for faith formation in the Lenten season that begins on Ash Wednesday, February 22.
Continue readingCreating a vision for educational ministries
An excellent process for evaluating and visioning educational ministry is explored in Embracing the Future: A Guide for Reshaping Your Church's Teaching Ministry, edited by Linda R. Isham through Judson Press. Although printed in 1999, the biblical discernment and reproducible tools in this resource remain relevant. This classic may be available for check-out at your presbytery resource center or in your church library, as well as at online retailers.
Your church may be starting a ministry from scratch and discovering the basics of organization. Thanks to the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area, Witherspoon Press and the authors of Help! We Need to Organize the Education Program, chapters of the out-of-print text are available for download.
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