Reimagining Faith Formation for the 21st Century: Engaging All Ages and Generations

We are at the dawn of a revitalization of the church's educational and formational ministry. New thinking about learning and faith formation - and an abundance of new resources and digital media and technologies - can transform the way we do faith formation for all ages and generations in our faith communities and in the world.

Chapter One explores four significant, adaptive challenges facing churches to identify the need for a new faith-forming ecosystem and models of faith formation.

Chapter Two presents a reimagined faith formation ecosystem incorporating five, interconnected components: intergenerational faith formation in the congregation, age-group and generational faith formation in a variety of physical places and online spaces, family faith formation at home, missional faith formation to the spiritual but not religious and the unaffiliated, and online and digital faith formation.

Chapter Three presents a reimagined model of faith formation as a network of relationships, content, experiences, and resources - in physical places and online spaces that is lifelong and life-wide - everywhere, anytime learning within a network of mentors, teachers, family, and peers.

Chapter Four presents a reimagined understanding of faith formation curriculum that is holistic, comprehensive and balanced, systemic, lifelong, contextual, digitally enabled, connected, and multi-platform.

Chapter Five reimagines the role of faith formation leaders as curator.