Retreat, Rewind & Refuel YOU and your Ministry with Families- SCHEDULE-Jan 15-16, 2015

Thursday, January 15, afternoon:

12noon-1:00pm: Arrive

1:00pm-Opening & Gathering

1:30pm-Faith Formation & Ministry with families of All Ages-overview

  • Family video clip: Modern Family Trailer
  • Lifelong Learning PPT

2:30pm-Break

3:00pm-Milestone Ministries: A Place for All to Gather, Learn & Create Foundations

  • Milestone/Stepping Stone Ministry PPT
  • Intro to Milestone Ministry & Faith Stepping Stones

4:30pm-Spiritual Practice 101-Log Lodge

  • Gratitude Mat
  • Blessing Bowl
  • Remembrance Stones
  • ?

5:00pm Time for YOU

5:30pm-Dinner-Barr Lodge

Retreat, Rewind & Refuel YOU and your Ministry with Families-SCHEDULE-Jan 15-16, 2015

Thursday, January 15, evening schedule:

6:30pm Spiritual Practices: Filling Up on God!

What is one habit you are very faithful to ? Exercise? Certain food? Drive-Walk a certain path? How you brush your teeth? Bedtime routine? Certain jewelry? How you communicate? How you listen to music?

How did that pattern become a part of your routine?

  • Spiritual Practices PPT
  • HABIT: the habits that matter the most are the ones that, when they start to shift, dislodge, and remake other patterns…. Charles Duhigg
  • Deut. 6
  • MODELING FOR FAMILIES: Modern Family/Tight rope

MODELING: WHY do you begin a habit? How do you begin a habit? What does a habit include?

“Church Reinforcement, Not Replacement=Blessing” Melheim 12m:36sec. Stepping Stones video

IDEAS

  • Prayer Cloth/knitting, crocheting,beading …
  • Praying in Color, journal
  • Walk, dance, sing, bike ride, ski,
  • Deut 6-daily life

Huffington Post article

A Bead and A Prayer book

Nature as Spiritual Practice book

8:00pm Worship

8:30pm-Retreat & Un-Wind Time!

Retreat, Rewind & Refuel YOU and your Ministry with Families SCHEDULE-Jan 15-16, 2015

Friday, January 16:

8:30am-Breakfast & First Word

9:00am-Faith5: Why? How? Who?

-Faith5 resources/website clip/Holding Your family Together

10:30am Break

11:00am-What Happens in Ministry when we mix Age Groups?

12:00noon-Lunch

1:00pm-Grade School, High School, Sunday School…What Might It Look Like in the 21st Century?

(19 minutes)

1)Creativity

2)No idea what’s going to happen in the future

3)Children have extraordinary capacity for innovation

  • Public Education: response to the Industrial Revolution
  • Melheim’s Let’s Kill Sunday School….

3 Things we know about intelligence:

1)Diverse: visual, sound, kinesthetic, abstract, movement, …

2)Dynamic: interactive

CREATIVITY: the process of having original ideas that have value (comes through interaction)

3)Distinct

  • “Human ecology: Education has mined our minds”
  • “CHILDREN SEEN AS THE HOPE THEY ARE”

EXAMPLE:

  • Jen=examples from context
  • Amy Kippen’s PPT/Boulder session:

2:00pm-Refueled and The Tank is FULL! What roads might we take?

Map:Not the destination…

Shared reflections, ideas, questions, resources …

***3 ideas for your context. How will you share these with your context?

3:00pm-Farewell!