Bringing Church Home: Faith Formation for Parents & Caregivers
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ringing Church Home is a FREE supportive collaboration for Christian parents and churches doing ministry with young people in grades K-12. Cohorts are now forming in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area (DMV) and Phoenix, Arizona to co-create children’s faith formation models to use at home and to share with others. Ultimately, each team will receive a $1000 mini grant to bring their ideas to life.
Raising kids today can be hard. No one comes into the world with a handbook on how to raise healthy, happy, and whole children with a strong sense of self that aligns with the agency to tap into who God has created them to be. As Christian parents, we, by faith, raise our children the best we can with what we’ve got. But what if someone with expertise in parenting and spiritual formation could accompany us on our Christian parenting journey to provide insight into our heart’s desire to raise good kids – and it cost us nothing but our time to get this help? The opportunity exists, and you can join now!
Join us for Virtual Information Sessions in August! Mondays 6PM EST and Tuesdays 6PM PST
Want To Be Involved? Enroll by August 31!
Bringing Church Home (BCH) is a 15-month cohort of parents, their young people, and their church ministry representative working together with the Hub team, faculty, staff, students, and professional consultants to develop children’s faith formation models. Teams will meet monthly and the opportunity is open to all faith communities across denominational traditions.
A generous grant from The Lily Endowment, Inc. underwrites the BCH process, including the $1000 mini-grant per team.
The program will run from September 2024 to November 2025, and will involve two retreats, bi-monthly trainings/consultations, and regularly working with the team to work on and live out the team’s project.
Teams consist of parents with their child(ren), a church ministry leader, and an enthusiastic adult familiar with the family. We are focusing our work with families or children who are:
- Single mothers of color parenting boys
- Neurodiverse
- LGBTQIA+
- Third culture
- Adoptive/fostering families
- K-6th grade
- 7th-12th grade