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Forma's position on A075: Online Christian Formation Resources
posted on Jun 15, 2015 Topic/Title: Develop Awareness of Online Christian Formation Resources Proposer: Standing Commission on Lifelong Christian Formation and Education Resolved , the House of _____ concurring, That the Episcopal Church Center establish a promin...
Read MoreForma's Second Response to the Draft Budget
posted on Jun 11, 2015Forma is thankful to be listed into the preliminary budget for $100,000 in the next triennium, recognizing that this is in response to the consistent work we have done supporting, advocating, resourcing and celebrating Christian formation in our c...
Read MoreBy God’s Grace – Creating Special Needs Ministry
posted on Jun 10, 2015 About ten years ago a mother came to me with her story and a request. She was searching for grace. Her son was 7 years old and had outgrown the nursery two years back. He is on the severe end of the autism spectrum, and had no comfortable place...
Read MoreSix Things To Consider as You Plan a Youth Mission Trip
posted on Mar 23, 2015Hundreds of churches offer short term youth mission trips as a way to express one of the essentials of our faith: reaching out in Christ's name to those who are in need. Yet, organizing such a trip with all its details can be daunting. Having plan...
Read MorePlease support Forma's campaign to increase our capacity and further our mission
posted on Mar 5, 2015 Recently Forma has experienced amazing growth in size and influence: Our membership has reached an all-time high of 450. www.forma.church is an active hub for sharing ideas, finding resources and jobs, registering for events, and more. ...
Read MoreThe best way I know to learn something new
posted on Feb 26, 2015My job as a seminary "resource person" keeps me thinking about ongoing professional development for ministers. If I had to sum up most people's attitude on the subject, it would be this: Professional development? I know I need it. But I can't fin...
Read MoreHeat, Fire & the Help of God in Racial Reconciliation
posted on Feb 17, 2015Trinity Wall Street has recently declared an intention to be intention al about holding conversations about race -- and so I was eager to connect with the Episcopal Church's new missioner for racial reconciliation, Heidi Kim, at the Forma confere...
Read MoreConference sermon: The Myth of Authority
posted on Feb 17, 2015 This sermon was preached by Andrew Kellner at Christ Church Cathedral for the 2015 Forma Conference, January 30, 2105. Andrew is an outgoing Forma board member and serves as Canon for Family & Young Adult Ministries in the Episcopal Diocese o...
Read More2015 Conference Plenaries
posted on Feb 9, 2015We are very excited to have three of our plenaries from the 2015 Conference available online. Feel free to use these in group discussion or embedded into websites. The Rev. Dr. Mark Bozzuti-Jones Jamie Coats Vicki Garvey Find more resou...
Read MoreChristian Formation: Recovering the Whole Self in Formation
posted on Feb 3, 2015Growing up it was all about the soul, the spirit, that true side of our selves that would go meet Jesus in the clouds and flitter off to the land of angels. The body, that was just the skin we wore; the uniform of earthly life that would one day ...
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