Description of Monday evening Keynote Address:
Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Moments at Home - A keynote presentation based on her book of the same name, Rev. Traci Smith offers practical suggestions for parents and children’s ministry leaders. This presentation guides parents and ministry leaders through a broad range of age appropriate faith practices to be used at home or adapted for church use.
Description of Tuesday workshops
DIY Faith: Ministry Leader Edition — Learn how to help families practice faith at home: DIY style! By the end of this breakout session you will have created a 90 minute workshop to present to families that is loaded with easy to implement, meaningful practices. Come prepared to share your ideas and learn a lot!
Intergenerational Worship: We’ll share ideas for creating meaningful worship services that help young children and older adults worship together in the same space. We will examine all aspects of worship including preaching, music and liturgy and explore resources that work well for all.
Creating Sacred Space…Tools, Tricks and Resources for Church or Home — Sacred Space is important to nurturing faith, both at home and church. Using Irish poet and priest John O’Donahue as our guide, we’ll first examine beauty as a spiritual practice. We’ll then talk about creating sacred space in worship and home that allows us to find beauty and rest in our physical space.
Finding Time: How to Nurture Faith Development in a Busy World — How can we find the time to develop our spiritual lives and the lives of our families when life feels chaotic and busy? We’ll discuss strategies for allowing faith formation to exist alongside a busy life, as well as practices we can incorporate into our daily routines with very little time. We’ll also look at how to help parents in our congregations who struggle to manage hectic lives.