Are you pondering and evaluating how your faith community will move into post-pandemic relationships and programs? This resource provides guided opportunities to brainstorm, reflect, act and pray about how to re-form into your community’s future using a creative format.
God wants our young people to thrive. The church and youth ministry can reflect this truth by setting apart group time to nurture our youth’s mental health. This resource offers a list of check-in questions to use in group settings or as group text check-ins. Also included in this resource are a list of practices and activities to suggest to youth to try on their own or to try as a youth group.
Learn how your gifts to the Presbyterian Hunger Program made a difference in 2020.
Throughout their lives, children can experience many kinds of loss – the death of family members, friends, or pets; the loss of home in a move, the loss of familiarity and certainty that comes when a loved one receives a diagnosis, and others. This Compass Points resource provides some Biblical resources, information to help you recognize and understand grief in children, and suggestions on supporting grieving children.
This Resource Roadmap is a list with books, media links, and activities for children, families and faith communities to assist in supporting grieving children.
When a child experiences a loss, they often experience a wide range of emotions, which can be overwhelming and confusing. Children may struggle to name their emotions, and may express them in many ways, from acting out, to playing, to music or arts, to talking about it. This Quicksheet includes two activities that you can do with your children or the children in your congregation in order to talk about support systems.
As churches return to in-person gatherings, leaders are seeking to decide how(or whether)to begin, discontinue, adapt, or expand their online ministry. This resource provides questions for reflection and discussion as you discern next steps, along with a range of options for hybrid ministry.
This resource is an overview of curriculum available for 2021 from The PCUSA Store.
This is a list of quick links from World Mission Office including Young Adult Volunteers, Mission Co-Workers, and Mission Trip toolkits.
This is a resource list of quick links from Theology, Formation & Evangelism including 1001 Worshiping Communities, Vital Congregations, Office of Theology and Worship, Christian Formation, Presbyterian Youth and Triennium, Financial Aid for Service.