Living Faithfully Together: Practices for Intergenerational Spiritual Formation

Hosted by Rebekah Ludolph, this series of workshops is designed to help parents, grandparents, and caregivers integrate spiritual practice and faith formation into their routine activities with children ages 0-12; the workshops will also address how pastors and lay leaders in congregations can equip caregivers in their own contexts to support the spiritual lives of children.

Over the course of six sessions, workshops will focus on empowering adults to engage with our rich faith tradition in ways that prepare both themselves and their children to pragmatically, faithfully, and resiliently face real-life challenges in our world. Each workshop will include ‘take home’ activities that participants can apply in their own contexts, either at home or in their church community, as well as further resources (stories, music, curriculum) they can explore. 

Workshops will be held over six weeks starting Jan. 20 online over Zoom . Monday nights 7-9pm EST. $25 covers the cost of all six workshops.

Rebekah Ludolph lives and works along the banks of Laurel Creek, with her three children, partner, a dog, a cat, and a vegetable garden. She has developed children's programming for Trillium Lutheran Church in Waterloo, as well as The Kanata Centre, Lutheran Outdoor Ministries, and the ELCIC. Rebekah has a PhD in Literature, and she can regularly be found in the university classroom, either teaching in her field or taking courses in theology through the Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago.

Workshop descriptions:

Living Faithfully through Prayer:

Identify the prayerful moments that already happen in the lives of your children and experiment with new ways of integrating prayer into the rhythms of life together.

Living Faithfully through Biblical Story: 

Gain confidence engaging the bible with children as a spiritual resource while also embracing its complexities and contradictions.  

Living Faithfully through Ritual: Daily, Yearly, Life Milestones:

Explore simple rituals for home and church that honour the presence of the sacred in the turning of the year and the cycles of our lives.

Living Faithfully in a Settler-Colonial Context:

Engage with faith conversations, practices, and resources that can help us and our kids approach the topics of white supremacy and colonization.

Living Faithfully in Ecological Crisis:

Investigate rituals, prayers, stories, and perspectives that can help adults accompany the children in their lives through the emotional and practical work of living in ecological crisis.

Living Faithfully in Church Community:

Learn about diverse ways families are choosing to be in relationship with church and the ways churches are integrating children in this age of change.