Faith-based Resources
FOR INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES
The following three ebooks are available for free through Amazon Kindle:
- Intergenerational and Family Ministry Resources: - Illustrated Ministry: Illustrated Ministry is putting together free, weekly resources that individual church members and families can sign up for and have delivered to them weekly. By signing up, you will receive free faith formation activities for all ages once a week: https://www.illustratedministry.com/flattenthecurve
- Faith @ Home: Faith@Home is providing a resource each day that includes something for families to watch, to listen to, to do and to pray about. Also, once a week, they'll also provide a “go deeper” resource that will help parents engage their kids in theological conversation concerning illness, crisis, anxiety, death: https://www.dofaithathome.org/
- Faith Finder Fun! Discover some faith finder fun here with your family! Youtube channel will be updated daily https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXlPsIx_Ov1u8Z-QOOCQDrw
- Pandemic Hope: A Family Devotional for Life During COVID-19 https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.cloversites.com/cb/cb0cd516-be94-40af-99bdf2f2860b752e/documents/Pandemic_Hope_Devotional.pdf
- - Variety of resources from Faith Incubators https://faithink.com/
- Everyday Ways to Help Families Form Faith When They're Stuck at Home: https://network.crcna.org/childrens-ministry/everyday-ways-help-families-form-faith-when-theyre-stuckhome
- - 35 Tech Free, Faith Forming, Fun Activities For Families to Do at Home https://network.crcna.org/childrens-ministry/35-tech-free-faith-forming-fun-activities-families-do-home
- Spreading Hope: Activities for Families Stuck at home: https://familyministrytools.org/2020/03/13/virus/
- Let’s Play! Faith Prompts for When We Need to Stay Home: https://christinevhides.com/2020/03/16/letsplay-faith-prompts-for-when-we-need-to-stay-home
- Forming faith blog: https://spiritandtruthpublishing.com/blog/
- Online family retreats through https://www.facebook.com/juliegvillo.aplaceofgrace/
- Youth and Collegiate Ministries: Our youth and college students especially need to maintain connections to their peers and greater faith communities. We are seeing many churches and campus ministries host zoom gatherings. If you are a leader of one of these age groups, we highly encourage you to connect with the organizations listed under the Collective above for support, ideas and encouragement. Resources can also be gleaned from the intergenerational list as well as the adult lists.
- Shared document of ideas and support for youth ministries: Ways Youth Workers Can Remotely Support/Connect/Engage with Youth
- Resources and recorded webinar from Youth Mission Co https://youthmissionco.org/resources/
- Online devotional https://d365.org/
- Justice Unbound has online devotionals and other resources for young adults. https://justiceunbound.org/
- Presbyterian Outlook article about a college chaplain: https://pres-outlook.org/2020/03/building-virtualcommunity-as-a-college-chaplain/
- Adult Education/Formation Resources: − High quality video lessons for all stages of faith formation. They do sell dvd’s but some videos are available for free on their website http://www.theocademy.com/ and youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/Theocademy/videos
- Just Worship: The Documentary: Just Worship explores the deep connection between worship and justice. This 33-minute film urges the church to answer God’s call to work for justice, reveals how taking part in worship is part of doing justice, and encourages the church to enact Spirit-filled worship that welcomes the coming reign of God. The documentary offered here shares highlights from the Just Worship conference in Austin, Texas. Documentary and discussion guide are online here: https://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/worship/just-worship
- Everyday God-Talk from Theology and Worship ongoing series of videos that also include discussion and reflection questions. Visit this Facebook page where everything will be posted. https://www.facebook.com/theologyandworship/
- Resources from Presbyterian Publishing (Thoughtful Christian, WJK etc.): − You can download chapter five from Walter Brueggemann's new book Materiality as Resistance. This chapter is about how the materiality of place informs our faith. As our concept of place changes during this crisis, this is an appropriate chapter to study individually or as a church community.
The following three ebooks are available for free through Amazon Kindle:
- Living into Lent by Don McKim can be used as a devotional or group study.. You may read aloud from the book on live-streaming platforms. We ask that you read small sections at a time and not have your videos permanently online. Facebook groups are a great way to organize book studies. Leaders can ask questions, post videos and all can participate.
- Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality by Tim Stead can help provide readers with mindfulness practices during this time.
- Overcoming Stress by Tim Cantopher, MD, offers information on both acute treatments and longer-term management in avoiding stress and its ill effects.