Growing Disciples
Helping churches form disciples of Jesus Christ
Devotional Resources for Youth
The Upper Room have an excellent new website for Devo’Zine, their devotional magazine for young people. The magazine itself is a bimonthly, full colour booklet with a theme for each week and daily meditations which feature stories, reflections, poems and prayers, and scripture references. It’s not a Bible commentary but rather a prompt for reflection, [...]
Lenten Studies for 2012
“Journeying with Jesus” is a new series of six Lenten studies for 2012 written by Rev Dr Robert Bos, former Director of the Pilgrim Learning Community for the Synod of Queensland. Rob was also previously the National Director for Theology and Discipleship for the Uniting Church. The studies focus on the Gospel of Mark, beginning [...]
The Path
“The Path” is a six session confirmation series for youth and young adults prepared by Adrian ‘Age’ Greenwood, Youth Adults Discipleship Educator with the Uniting Church Synod of Victoria and Tasmania. It’s available here for $25. The strategy has three components – Mentoring, Education and Celebration. The Education stream consists of six sessions exploring the [...]
Transformation not just formation
Simon Dent and Craig Mitchell made a brief presentation at the Uniting Church, SA annual synod meeting about ‘Growing Disciples’. Here’s a summary. Click on the images for a full size image. We started with the video clip ‘Training Fleas‘. That could be a metaphor for the church, couldn’t it? In the church some call [...]
“Practicing our Faith” Videos
A series of videos on practices of discipleship has been produced by the “Practicing Our Faith” project of Valparasio University in the USA. The series covers topics such as: Discerning God’s Call Living as Community Making a Good Living Honouring the Body Care for Creation and more. The videos can be viewed here. They are [...]
Xtreme Community for Youth
Small groups have proven effective in fostering growth in faith and discipleship with young people and adults. When the UCA National Christian Youth Convention (NCYC) was hosted in South Australia in 2005, the synod produced a video series and booklet called “Xtreme Community” to help leaders start small groups with youth and young adults in [...]
Devotional Resources for Youth
The Upper Room have an excellent new website for Devo’Zine, their devotional magazine for young people. The magazine itself is a bimonthly, full colour booklet with a theme for each week and daily meditations which feature stories, reflections, poems and prayers, and scripture references. It’s not a Bible commentary but rather a prompt for reflection, [...]
Lenten Studies for 2012
“Journeying with Jesus” is a new series of six Lenten studies for 2012 written by Rev Dr Robert Bos, former Director of the Pilgrim Learning Community for the Synod of Queensland. Rob was also previously the National Director for Theology and Discipleship for the Uniting Church. The studies focus on the Gospel of Mark, beginning [...]
New U.S. Confirmation Resources
Craig Mitchell reviews new confirmation resources from Augsburg Fortress Press in the US here.
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