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Compelling Preaching Initiative

Formed in Faith

We help parents and churches experience God alongside their kids!

Through Formed in Faith, we are helping parents and caregivers ask and answer questions like:

  • How can I nurture a family faith culture even when my faith feels "in process"?
  • How do I pray with my kids?
  • How do I overcome the fear of "messing up" my kids’ faith life?
  • How do I keep faith formation from being just one more thing on the to-do list?

We want to help you figure this out! Ready to connect with resources and events that speak to these exact questions (and many more)? Click the link below to sign up for our newsletter. 

GET FAMILY FAITH RESOURCES

If you’re a church leader, you are probably already trying to help parents in your congregation figure this out (or you wish you had time to). We are also helping leaders explore questions like:

  • How can churches partner with parents to share faith with kids?
  • What does it mean for churches to be places of radical hospitality to kids and families?
  • How can I do this work when I'm already short on time and resources?

Want to connect with other children’s and family ministry leaders who are asking these same questions? Click the link below to learn more about our Children’s Ministry Network, an every-other-month gathering of like-minded leaders aimed at resource sharing and support.

JOIN A NETWORK OF SUPPORT

More information and resources for parents, caregivers and ministry leaders can be found at the links below. 

If you are a Whitworth student interested in providing child care for Formed in Faith events, click here >>>
The OCE is hiring children's and family ministry leaders to join a cohort of residents for a two-year journey exploring intergenerational ministry and parent engagement. Interested? All the details are on our churches & ministry leaders page.

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Formed in Faith Values

As we engage this work alongside families and ministry leaders, we are committed to upholding the following values:

  • Faith Formation Is a Team Sport: Parents and caregivers are not alone in the discipleship of children. God is, all the time, parenting alongside us, and God has given us the gift of community to love our kids too. Our children are God's children too, so we can rest in the assurance of his care for our kids.
  • Formation Is a Two-Way Street: Our youngest children have a lot to teach us about knowing God, and our own faith will be transformed if we are willing to explore and wonder alongside them. Faith formation extends far beyond intellectual mastery of information.
  • Faith Formation Is Contextual: Shaping a child's faith should never start with a formula. Every child is different, every family is different, every community is different and every church is different. Instead, we focus on tools that can then be appropriated and applied to different contexts.
  • Parenthood Is an Important Calling: The daily work of caring for a home and a family is holy work. Parenthood is a unique calling through which we are formed and form our children. Parents and caregivers need to be equipped with tools, resources and a community in order to wisely and intentionally cultivate a family life that is awake to God's presence.
  • Children Bear God's Image: The church should be first to acknowledge children as equal members and image-bearers in the household of God and should consider how to witness to God's radically inclusive Kingdom by honoring their full participation in faith spaces. We will all be richer for it.

Meet Our Team

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Lauren Hunter


Project Director

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Alexis Perry


Communications Coordinator

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Stacy Keogh


Research Specialist

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Anne Wilcox


Pedagogy Specialist

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Jess Beine


Child Care Director