{"id":2290,"date":"2022-11-15T07:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T14:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wonderink.org\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2023-10-16T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:58:28","slug":"kids-faith-formation-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonderink.org\/kids-faith-formation-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"What If We’re Failing Kids at Faith Formation? And How Not To"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Wonder Ink Faith Formation Download<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We know you care deeply about the \u2018why\u2019 behind your investment in resources for the kids, parents, and volunteers in your ministry. So today, we want you to know some important parts of the story behind Wonder Ink<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It begins with this updated narrative about faith formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we at David C Cook first published this narrative in 2019 on Ministry Spark, we had not yet begun the process of developing Wonder Ink. But we saw the need to reimagine discipleship in the context of the children\u2019s ministry experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This need informed the heart and substance of the program we are now excited to share with churches like yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Apathy is the slow death of faith. And, if adults aren\u2019t bringing their questions out of the shadows, kids won\u2019t either.”<\/p>What If We’re Failing Kids at Faith Formation?
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The following year, the Covid-19 pandemic greatly affected every aspect of our lives. The ongoing impact of the pandemic has expanded our vision for the opportunity to reach kids and families in person at church and online at home. This, along with empathy for various challenges in ministry today, informed the digital delivery of Wonder Ink<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t

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Wonder Ink\u2019s 3-year, 52-week children\u2019s ministry curriculum offers kids space to fully find their place in God\u2019s Big Story. Children discover they are Known by God, Loved by Jesus, and Led by the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n

Working Together in Faith Formation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Along the way, a community of ministry practitioners and discipleship thought leaders have contributed to the creation of Wonder Ink<\/a>\u2014and still do. We\u2019re grateful for how God enabled us to collaborate with those leaders and build on the legacy of David C Cook curriculum in a fresh way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our sincere desire is to use what God has entrusted to us\u2014including boots-on-the-ground experience and biblical insight\u2014to invite kids, parents, and volunteers into a wonderfilled journey of curiosity, belief, faith, and identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Children are not lesser Christians and must not be treated as such. They are forming identity and faith in Jesus as much as anyone\u2014often with more open minds.”<\/p>What If We’re Failing Kids at Faith Formation?
(And How Not To)<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We appreciate you and pray that God will continue to guide you as you engage families in and through your local expression of the body of Christ. Your gathering place may be an old stone church, a converted strip mall, a newly constructed building, a school auditorium, somebody\u2019s living room, or a vintage-hip sanctuary set with rows of chairs in a horseshoe formation. Wherever you are, He is there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download this guide<\/a> to discover how we can follow God and work together to instill and inspire lasting faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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