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What’s Inside this Issue:
What’s Inside This Issue:
Listening to the Hurt: Teenage Boys & Faith to See Them Fully
Faith & Screens: Guiding Youth with Love, Not Control
April Book Recommendations
Term of the Month: Sacred Rest
Graduating to Life: Rooted Not Rushed
C.A.R.E. Sundays is a 12-week curriculum that centers three Bible stories. As people started learning about Jesus, he became their leader, healer, friend, comforter, teacher, and defender.
Each story has four lessons to engage children and their faith communities within and around the church. Enjoy these C.A.R.E. experiences as you engage creative ministry with children and families. For every day we are with all of creation, we are becoming like Jesus. The caterpillar, a precious example of becoming, rests at the bottom of each lesson to remind us why we learn together in church.
Our design team offers this ministry with joy and hope.
Disciples Women’s Ministries Mission Project 2025 for General Assembly.
FAQs for Disciples Women’s Ministries 2025 General Assembly Mission Project
Downloadable PDF of helpful suggestions as you work to start or add a spark of energy to a Disciples Men group in your congregation, or as you start a ministry to men in your community. These suggestions will help you avoid burnout and help you form a group that will help the participants grow deeper in their faith and relationship with God and one another.
If you need an Ash Wednesday or Palm Sunday Litany, we have one for you. If you need a Love Log for all ages, there’s one inside to help us follow Jesus. Take time to pray and reflect with this year’s concise resource.
2025 Laity Readiness Resource
This season in our churches, homes, and schools feels heavy, but our collective capacity to strengthen one another and our communities is great. We are an extension of our magnificent Creator–one who emboldens, loves, and heals us toward a world that is unlike empire. The Realm of God moves by the Spirit in all living things, cultivating justice and harmony one precious load of anointing at a time.
It is imperative we lift up and carry the power of the Holy Spirit in refreshing ways. Our legions of lay leaders fortify the church for every season, especially those seasons that dare us to follow Jesus. “Weightlifters” provides you with enough development materials for monthly laity training over the next year. Let us lean into intentional conditioning and be well!
Rev. Monique Crain Spells
Vice President for Mission, Advocacy, & Programs
WHAT’S INSIDE?
by Rev. Managerrie Winston
This curriculum brings together Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and faith formation to empower youth to engage deeply with their spirituality while developing the emotional and social skills they need for life’s transitions.
In today’s world, young people are looking for ways to express their faith in ways that are inclusive, compassionate, and just. This curriculum offers a space where everyone no matter their background, experiences, or perspectives can come to the table, be heard, and grow together in faith and love.
Inspired by Jesus’ example of welcoming all, this curriculum builds skills that help youth live out their faith with empathy, resilience, and a commitment to justice. Each lesson is an invitation to explore who they are, understand how they relate to others, and discern how they can make a difference in the world around them.
DHM is pleased to offer our 2024 resource for the Advent Season. Take time to sit with reflections from our thoughtful writers (Miseon Choi, David Clifford, James Semmelroth, Darnell Managerrie Winston), listen to a few songs, and say a prayer. Blessed Advent!
Lent arrives early to us this year, but the leadership of Jesus is always on time.
Please enjoy and share reflections from Alan Dicken, Caroline Hamilton-Arnold, Fiyori Kidane, and Natasha Robinson. They have given prophetic encouragement for this time!
Wheaton World Wide Moving understands that moving is about much more than an address change – it’s a life change. As an approved mover for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Wheaton offers Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) members the peace-of-mind that can
come only from experience.
Advent 2023 Resource!
Truly, this is a season of Advent. We need the hope, justice, comfort, and power of Jesus on earth.
Please take time to enjoy and share prayers, reflections, and music in “Unveiling the Divine,” our 2023 Advent Devotional.
Energy audits are comprehensive reviews conducted by energy professionals and/or engineers that evaluate the actual performance of your property’s energy systems and equipment against their designed performance level or against the best available technologies. Audits alone don’t save energy; you need to implement the recommended improvements to reap benefits.
Money saved due to implementing auditor-recommended improvements may jusify the up-front cost of the audit. However, your budget may limit the types of audits that would make financial sense, because their recommended improvements that are not performed shortly after the audit can become outdated. If your congregation has limited property improvement funds, an audit targeting specific types of projects may be the most cost effective as it will recommend projects your congregation can implement in a short time frame with allotted project funds. This document will help you understand the types of audits and auditors and determine if an audit would benefit your congrega�on.
In 2021, Juneteenth became a federal holiday, but it means more than a day off work.
As Disciples, we are learners. Take advantage of Juneteenth resources for your congregation. Wisdom makes us stronger and more loving like our God.
