Beyond the Life of the Project
As 2021 Worshiping Communities grant recipients prepare to end the year-long grant project, we look forward to hearing about what grantees have learned throughout the grant year.
Teacher-Scholar Panel: Inclusive Worship, Reconciliation, and Public Witness
John Witvliet, moderator.
What Every Project Director Needs to Know
In preparation for the 2022 Grants Event and scheduled project director consultations, please watch the webinar below and note additional questions you may have.
Worship: Give us this day... Forgive us our debts...
Worship/Plenary on Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one.
Worship: For yours is the kingdom...
Worship/Plenary on For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
How To Submit a Budget Revision
Budget revisions are common during the grant year. You may need to revise your budget as you implement your project and find that either costs have changed, or your learning compels you to go in different directions.
Welcome and Plenary: Our Father in heaven...
Worship/Plenary on Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Sarah Farmer on Courageous Hope in Youth
Practical theologian Sarah F. Farmer offers four promising pathways for African American youth to strengthen capacity for hope infused with courage in the life of the church and community.
Angela Williams Gorrell on the Gravity of Joy for Young People
Practical theologian Angela Williams Gorrell shares how experiencing life's challenges and sorrows is also an opportunity to share in its joy.
Benjamin T. Conner on Friendship and Hospitality that Embraces Youth with Developmental Disabilities
Practical theologian Benjamin T. Conner encourages and challenges congregations and pastors to reorient ministry with youth to fully include and amplifiy the witness of adolescents with developmental disabilities.
Amy Adamczyk on the Influence of Parents in the Religious Lives of Their Children
Sociologists Amy Adamczyk and Christian Smith co-authored the book "Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation," which explores the research results of more than 200 interview with US parents exploring intergenerational transmission of religious faith and practice between the generations.
Empowering Children and Youth through Active Involvement
In this conversation, Priscilla Rodriquez shares with Elizabeth Tamez Mendez about her worshiping community in Chicago which provides accessible leaders with a guiding presence so that early on children are encouraged to be creative and share their gifts as they grow up in the life of faith and the church.