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Resource Guide | October 26, 2022 Flourishing in Community with Young People: A Conversation with Lena Crouso and Elizabeth Tamez Méndez In this conversation, Lena Crouso, vice president for Intercultural Learning and Engagement at Southern Nazarene University, talks with Elizabeth Tamez-Mendez about building a culture of inclusion for young people that aims for shalom and provides places and spaces for young people to ask questions and experience courageous conversations in their faith exploration. Conversation | August 22, 2022 Accompanying Youth in a Collective Process of Ministry: A Conversation with Cristian De La Rosa and Elizabeth Tamez Méndez In this conversation, Dr. Cristian De La Rosa, national director of the Hispanic Youth Leadership Academy, talks with Elizabeth Tamez-Mendez, executive director of New Generation3, about models of communication that accompany youth in a process of mentorship, leadership, Biblical interpretation, arts exploration, and more so that youth find their agency to share what is meaningful and relevant for their lives and ministries. Conversation | August 22, 2022 Affirmation and Comunidad for Latino Catholic Youth: A Conversation with Hosffman Ospino and Elizabeth Tamez Méndez In this conversation, practical theologian Hosffman Ospino [Boston College] talks with Elizabeth Tamez-Mendez about Latino Catholic youth who constitute the largest sector of the young Catholic population in the U.S. They reflect on how understanding the realities and experiences of this group will help parish and congregational leaders to build a church that is more dynamic and more inclusive in terms of culture and language. Conversation | Video | August 08, 2022 Discipleship, Faith Formation, and Belonging in Worship: A Conversation with Chris Schoon and Elizabeth Tamez Méndez In this conversation, Chris Schoon, director of Faith Formation Ministries of the Christian Reformed Church of North America, explores with Elizabeth Tamez Méndez the importance of equipping congregations and parents to embrace children and youth as full image bearers and active participants in worship, for the well-being of the intergenerational community. Conversation | Video | August 01, 2022 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 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 Can I Really Be Sure of My Salvation? - 2 Peter 1 A service plan focused on assurance of salvation in a series addressing difficult questions of the faith. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Why Isn't Life More Fair? - Psalm 73 A service plan focused on the question of why life isn't more fair and the truth that we should have the freedom to be honest with God about our struggles and disappointments. This is part of a series addressing life's toughest questions for Christians. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Why Isn't My Christian Life More Dynamic? - John 11, 1 Corinthians 3 A service plan focused on the desire for greater strength, power and joy in the Christian life in a series addressing difficult questions of the faith. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 How Do I Handle My Times of Doubt? - Mark 9 A service plan focused on Christians' struggle between certainty and doubt, viewing Christ as the foundation on which our faith rests, in a series addressing life's toughest questions for Christians. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Is Christianity the Only True Religion? - Galatians 1, 1 Timothy 2 A service plan focused on the questions of validity in other world religions and the truth that salvation is found only in Jesus Christ, the son of God in a series addressing difficult questions of the faith. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Are You Asleep? - Mark 14 A service plan for the third Sunday of Lent planned around Mark 14:37. This service is part of "Questions of the Last Week," a series of Lent service plans. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 Who Will Roll the Stone Away? - Mark 16 A service plan for Easter planned around Mark 16:3. This service is part of "Questions of the Last Week," a series of Lent service plans. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 What's the Point of Life? - Romans 1, Philippians 1 A service plan focused on finding God's purpose for our lives in a series addressing life's toughest questions for Christians. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 How Can I Forgive Others? - Matthew 18 A service plan focused on our willingness to forgive others as we have been forgiven in a series addressing difficult questions of the faith. Worship Service | June 01, 2005 1 2 Next »