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    Formational Children's Ministry (ēmersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith): Shaping Children Using Story, Ritual, and Relationship
    Formational Children's Ministry (ēmersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith): Shaping Children Using Story, Ritual, and Relationship
    Formational Children's Ministry (ēmersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith): Shaping Children Using Story, Ritual, and Relationship
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    Formational Children's Ministry (ēmersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith): Shaping Children Using Story, Ritual, and Relationship

    By Ivy Beckwith

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    Much ministry to children looks more like mere entertainment than authentic spiritual formation. But what if children's ministries were rooted in a mind set whereby we taught children, with our words and actions, how the story of God, the story of church history, the story of the local community, and the story of the child intersect and speak to one another? What if children's ministry was less about downloading information into kids' heads and more about leading them into these powerful, compelling stories? Beckwith aims to help ministers and parents create a ministry that captures children's imaginations not just to keep them occupied, but to live as citizens of the kingdom of God. In addition to providing theological reasons for formational children's ministry, the book offers examples of how Ivy and other practitioners are implementing a formational model.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateJan 1, 2010
    ISBN9781441207357
    Formational Children's Ministry (ēmersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith): Shaping Children Using Story, Ritual, and Relationship
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    Ivy Beckwith

    Ivy Beckwith is a graduate of Gordon College, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and holds a PhD in education from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. Born and raised in new England, Ivy has been children's minister of Colonial Church in Edina, Minnesota, since July 2000. Her primary responsibility is preschool and children's education, where her focus is the spiritual formation of Colonial's children and families.

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