All Tags Resource Type Academic Article Article Audio Bibliography Book Excerpt Conversation Enacted Scripture Feature Story Image News Item Online Discussion Podcast Reflection Prayer Resource Guide Slideshow Topic Showcase Video Website Worship Service Category All Christian Year Daily Prayer/Reflection Dance Drama Grants Interdisciplinary Intergenerational Worship Language Arts/Words Music Preaching Sacraments (Baptism and Lord's Supper) Teaching Technology Visual Arts Worshipers Worship- Leading Worship- Meaning of Worship- Planning Worship- Preparing for Occasion All Lent Weddings Christmas Pentecost Weekday Services Funerals Anniversaries War Dedications Ascension Hymn Festival Lessons and Carols Christ the King Teaching Worship Healing Services Passion Week Symposium Resources Natural Disasters Commissionings Summer Heidelberg Catechism Easter Ordination/Installation Thanksgiving Advent Taize Epiphany Search results 1 - 15 of 15 Sort by: Title | Date 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. Conversation | Video | March 22, 2022 Intergenerational Relationships in the Worshiping Community In this conversation, pastor Ahnna Cho Park invites church communities to consider a Biblical concept of honor that embraces the imago Dei, breaks down cultural hierarchies between youth and adults, and welcomes all on a journey of intergenerational friendships and worship practices. Conversation | Video | March 02, 2022 Curiosity, Relationship-building, and Youth as Active Participants In this conversation, Nicole Saint-Victor shares with Elizabeth Tamez Méndez her passion for nurturing relationships with youth and inviting them into intentional conversations and spaces even while sometimes disrupting established practices in order to provide multiple pathways for youth into Christian community, worship, and life together. Conversation | Video | March 01, 2022 Bilingualism, Generations and the Church In this conversation, pastor Marcos Canales shares with Elizabeth Tamez Méndez how intercultural and intergenerational relationships intersect with a worshiping community to foster spaces of belonging in la familia of God. Conversation | Video | February 08, 2022 Coming Alongside Youth on New Pathways of Being Church In this conversation, pastor and justice-seeker Sandra Maria Van Opstal talks Elizabeth Tamez Méndez about how the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial reckoning provided an opportunity for churches to pivot and reset practices and spaces that allow youth to ask hard questions and explore a Biblical understanding of worship, justice, and collective flourishing in Christ. Conversation | Video | January 26, 2022 Cultural Intelligence and Youth Ministry: Creating Safe Spaces for Questions and Community A youth minister reflects on the necessity of cultural intelligence in ministry alongside youth in order to create safe spaces to ask questions, wrestle with biblical concepts, and hear thoughts from people different from them, all with the purpose of loving God and others better. Reflection | January 20, 2022 Intergenerational Church as a Space for Opportunity, Change, and Learning In this conversation, pastor Theresa Cho of St. John's Church in the Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco shares joys and insights from a historical congregation that is learning to embrace change and be vulnerable in order to live together as an intergenerational, contextual worshiping community. Conversation | Video | January 11, 2022 One Generation Calls to the Next: Youth Agency and Leadership Development In this conversation, New City Kids president Trevor Rubingh talks with New Generation3 executive director Elizabeth Tamez Méndez on the significance of agency in the spiritual and leadership development of teenagers as they try out their leadership skills with and among their peers. Conversation | Video | December 21, 2021 Mentors to the Next Generation of Leaders Dale Sieverding, vice chair of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Liturgical Commission and director of LAMP So-Cal—Liturgical Arts Ministry Project in Southern California, reflects on the methodology and results of The Liturgical Arts Ministry Project. Reflection | December 16, 2021 Worship in the Big Tent Playwriter and worship pastor Christopher Greco reflects on the effective use of interruption, surprise, spontaneity, narrative eclecticism, motivated participation, and intergenerational collaboration as tools to engage congregants in worship in the face of significant disparities in age, culture, and Christian tradition, or lack thereof. Reflection | December 03, 2021 Co-creating with Diverse Youth Proskuneo Ministries, a Jesus-centered multicultural worshiping community, provides multiple spaces for the diverse youth of this town to experience safety, a sense of belonging, and individual and collective agency. Reflection | November 23, 2021 Joys and Challenges of Intergenerational Worship and Congregational Life in Chinese Canadian Churches: A conversation with Herbert Tsang and Elizabeth Tamez Méndez In this conversation, church music minister Herbert Tsang offers insights from first generation immigrant and 1.5 communities moving forward in ways that reach out and try new things with youth in areas such as language, worship music, and more. Conversation | Video | November 18, 2021 Imagining Multiple Models of Ministry with Youth A blog and video series featuring a variety of perspectives on multiple models of ministry with youth. Resource Guide | November 11, 2021 Youth, Liturgy, and Life to the Full: A Conversation with Tim O'Malley and Elizabeth Tamez Méndez In this conversation Catholic theologian and educator Tim O'Malley of the McGrath Institute for Church Life reflects on the significance of several key values in the lives of youth that work together to form lives shaped by scripture and transformed by God. Conversation | Video | November 11, 2021 Youth Agency and Creative Worship Ministry at a Christian High School A campus pastor shares how Vancouver Christian High School youth are showing initiative and taking on emerging leadership roles. Reflection | November 11, 2021