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Formation 101
Top 10 Reasons Why Children Are Welcomed in Our Church
Resources for Across the Miles Series
Reaching Across the Miles…
The Reaching segment of the Across the Miles series focuses on ministry opportunities for congregations interested in supporting members in the Armed Services.
Praying Across the Miles…
The Praying segment of the Across the Miles series focuses on faith formation opportunities for service members and their families.
Devotions for Parents & Children Separated by Distance
This simple devotional provides weekly and special - occasion prayers for both parent and child. No matter where a parent is deployed, they and their children can be saying the same prayers at the same time. This resource has activities that allow a child to personalize their devotional.
Devotions for Adult Family Members Separated By Distance
This devotional is to support service members and their loved ones who are confronted with separation due to deployment. This devotional is intended to assist those impacted by deployment as they face the life’s daily challenges, ever changing emotional conditions and spiritual challenges.
There are two sizes of each devotional booklet; 8x11 to be used by family members and the 3x5 booklet which conveniently fits into the Service Members uniform pockets. Both can be ordered from EBaR.
Reading Across the Miles…
The Reading segment is an Episcopal faith formation companion piece to the “Growing, Learning, Understanding” materials produced by the Military Child Education Coalition.
The selections are chosen to convey on a child’s level the various issues facing military families. Books featured in the series can also be ordered from EBaR
Across the Miles Chaplain Packet (As for use by Chaplains and parish leaders)
This is a complete set of all the Across the Miles Series resources and is intended to be used as start up material for Chaplains and start up programs in congregations.
The entire Across the Miles Series is available in PDF format and can be located on the web at the Episcopal Church Center Office for Adult Formation. To order color copies contact EBaR at; www.episcopalbooks.org
Beginning the Church School Year
Begin your year with a Commissioning service for your Church School Teachers with some of these resources.
- Awake My Soul
- A commissioning service developed by Sharon Ely Pearson as the Missioner for Adult Christian Formation and Children's Ministries in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.
How the Church Tells Time: Church Seasons
21st Century Resources for a 21st Century Church
Father Matthew Presents a series of informative video clips on many topics avaliable at You Tube produced by the Rev. Matthew Moretz the Curate of Christ's Church, Rye, NY.
View an excellent video on Godly Play from Godly Play trainer Linda Clapp, Director of Chrisitan Formation at St. John's Parish, Stamford, CT.
TECtube, a series of videos from The Episcopal Church.
The Trinity Wall Street Channel
Join the NAECED Facebook group.
The Episcopal Cafe, a collaboration of writers (including NAECED members), editors and artists, who create a visually appealing, intellectually stimulating, spiritually enriching and frequently amusing site where Episcopalians and those interested in the church can read, watch, listen and reflect upon contemporary life in a context informed by faith and animated by the spirit of charity.
Christian Education and the Fine Arts
Episcopal Language
- Download Episcopal Language I
- Download Episcopal Language II
- A useful book is An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church: A User-Friendly Reference for Episcopalians edited by Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum, which can be purchased from Church Publishing and through many other book retailers.
The Bible
- Translations, an explanation by Sharon Pearson developed as the Children's Ministries and Christian Education Coordinator in the Diocese of Connecticut.
- Choosing a Children’s Bible a blog entry at the Sunday Paper blog by Gretchen Pritchard
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