Lament WITH Children and Youth

Lament WITH Children and Youth: Practices, Rhythms, Rituals that Empower Faith Communities to Address Loss and Injustice My story: In 2021, I lost both of my parents suddenly to Covid within 10 days. As a worship leader, I was immediately struck with how little room...

The Sunday School Struggle

The Sunday School Struggle: What’s Flourishing, What’s Fading, and What’s in the Future? For many congregations, the “traditional” Sunday school of our childhoods is a thing of the past. Today, churches are doing Sunday School in a myriad of different ways and the...

What’s Stirring in the Soul of APCE

What’s Stirring in the Soul of APCE? Interact with members of APCE’s Strategic Planning Task Force and Implementation Team who have created new strategies and a new structure with the goal of ensuring that APCE remains vibrant, relevant and useful into the future....

Family Worship: A Recipe for Sunday Morning

Family Worship: A Recipe for Sunday Morning Is your Sunday School hour for children and families thriving or dying? How involved and enthusiastic are your children and families about your regular worship services? During COVID, we took the opportunity for change to...

Unboxing the Church: Becoming Courageous Congregations

Unboxing the Church: Becoming Courageous Congregations 1 John 3:18. Let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. We’re interested in co-creating a more peaceful world, but how do we do that with only an hour together on Sundays? The Presbyterian Peace...