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General
- Contact Person: Contact your Regional Catalyzer to brainstorm about intergenerational ministry challenges and opportunities in your congregation.
- The Intergenerational Church toolkit: This resource collection provides dozens of easy, practical ministry ideas.
- Ten Ways to Be a More Intergenerational Church
- Subscribe to the Intergenerational Ministry topic on The Network
Intergenerational Worship
- Ten Ways to Strengthen Intergenerational Worship
- The Intergenerational Church toolkit: Worshipping section
- Intergenerational Worship resources on faith practices
Intergenerational Events
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Shape an informal gathering with people of all ages to explore faith practices together with the ideas in Everything You Need for An Interactive Series on the Faith Practices.
- The Lord’s Prayer (free event outline)
- One Bread, One Cup, One People (free event outline)
- WE curriculum - Intergenerational events on a variety of topics (purchase at faithaliveresources.org)
- Telling Our Faith Stories workshop: Contact your regional catalyzer to host this workshop at your church.
Ministry to/with/by People in the "Third Third of Life"
- Ten Ways to Bless and Be Blessed by Older Church Members
- Ten Ways to Encourage Faith Formation in the "Third Third" of Life
- Third Third Toolkit
- The Third Third Toolkit Overview: Laura Keeley with Faith Formation, and Mark Stephenson of Disability Concerns, led a virtual town hall for Calvin Seminary students to introduce this toolkit. The webinar includes a helpful overview of how the toolkit is laid out and what is covered.