Conversational Faith

Encouraging Positive Peer Relationships It is true in life that we grow to be like our friends. Therefore, the more time we spend with our friends the more we will be influenced by their values and the actions that result. It is also true in life that we cannot choose our children’s friends. However, there are … Read more

Big Stories and Personal Discovery

The Big Story of the Bible Every part of the Bible – each event, book, character, commands, prophecy and column – must be understood in the context of one storyline. In many cases the approach to faith formation has been built around a series of disconnected Bible stories and memory verses. Today we are all … Read more

It Takes a Whole Church to Nurture Faith

The importance of generational connections Generational fragmentation is a reality that the church must engage as it navigates the 21st century.  Most recently, postmodernism has fuelled a shift in emphasis from the needs of the community to the primacy of the individual. The developmental needs of the individual are preeminent over the needs of the … Read more