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Advent Care Package for Youth: What’s in the box?

November 13, 2020 By Miriam McKenney Leave a Comment

A post from the Forma Facebook page a few days ago reminded me: what am I doing for Advent with my youth group? Of course, I should have been thinking about this weeks ago. But here I am, scrolling through the list of ideas and putting together my Advent care package. But it’s not too late, especially in God’s time.  

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Spiritual Practices, Way of Love Tagged With: Advent, birth, coloring, craft, Jesus, nativity

Labyrinths as formation: Making finger sand labyrinths

July 17, 2019 By Miriam McKenney 2 Comments

Labyrinths are wonderful tools for practicing prayer and mindfulness. Labyrinths aren’t just for adults – learn how to incorporate labyrinths into your formation ministry at church and at home.

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Filed Under: Prayer, Spiritual Practices, Way of Love Tagged With: busy bag, children, craft, labyrinth, mindfulness, Prayer, quiet bag, teens, VBS, worship, youth

The Miraculous Dinnertime Question Jar

June 7, 2019 By Tina Clark 7 Comments

Several years ago, the Holy Spirit sent me, via the internet of course, a simple activity to ease dinner table tension by building relationship through storytelling. A mason jar, minimally decorated and containing slips of paper in three colors.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: children, craft, Mealtimes, printables, teenagers

Celebrating the Lesser Feast of Saint Martin with a Lantern Walk

November 11, 2018 By Betsey Monnot Leave a Comment

The church celebrates St. Martin of Tours today, November 11th. Martin is best known for cutting his cloak in half with his sword to share with a beggar. Afterward, he had a vision of Christ, wrapped in the half cloak. It’s a pretty simple story, which is one of the reasons it works so well for young children. My children attend a Waldorf school, and celebrating St. Martin has been a beloved tradition for us since the oldest was in preschool.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: children, community, craft, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, light, Martin of Tours, waldorf

Celebrating Holy Cross Day

September 14, 2016 By Jerusalem Jackson Greer 2 Comments

To share the comfort and healing that Christ offers, I must be willing to go into the destroyed and damaged places in my community, my home, my church and face the ruin honestly.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: appliqué, craft, cross, Holy Cross Day, Paraclete Press, Red Cross

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