University Congregational United Church of Christ
To enter a church-wide intergenerational exploration of the gospel through the arts of drama, song, dance, storytelling, and sculpture and to integrate these artistic forms in worship experiences through the seasons of the church year.
Carey Theological College/Carey Institute
To equip pastors and lay worship leaders in planning and leading intergenerational worship experiences by offering workshops and seminars that will benefit churches of various denominations and ethnic backgrounds.
Vancouver, british columbia
First Presbyterian Church
To engage the congregation in learning about the importance of intergenerational worship through book studies, retreats and workshops and by connecting adult worship leaders with youth worship leaders in active mentoring relationships to bring the generations together in worship, serving, sharing and learning.
Greater Baltimore Church of Christ
To provide a series of workshops, discussions and special activities on worship that engage children, teens, campus, singles, married, Spanish and mature ministries and lead to deeper participation in singing, scripture reading, prayer, Communion, baptism, small group participation and becoming mission focused to reach out to their neighbors.
Mount Aery Baptist Church
To facilitate conversations and learning about worship through congregational roundtable discussions and workshops that will lead to greater participation in worship in a large, growing, socially, culturally, economically and educationally diverse, multigenerational congregation.
Reformed Church of Highland Park
To offer three intergenerational “Psalm Plunges” that will provide space to look at the Psalms intentionally through lectures, worship and working together on songs, art projects, new lyrics for old hymns, liturgical elements, prayers, sentences, poems and other creativity inspired by the Psalms to help the congregation become more aware of how and why we worship as we do.
Highland Park, new jersey
Cathedral of St Paul, The Crossing
To initiate research, reflection and learning that will create liturgies that embrace the gifts, needs and presence of multiple generations, that teach and form disciples, and that incorporate rites of passage for all stages of life in a robust, urban, mostly young adult-emergent church based at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul.
Central Presbyterian Church
To create within the congregation a deepened understanding of the significance of singing the Psalms in worship through a workshop introducing Psalms for All Seasons, evening study groups in homes, an intergenerational visual arts group, a choral music study for all ages, a Lenten devotional Guide and a focus on the Psalms in all levels of Christian education.
Christian Theological Seminary
To invite local congregations into a year long process that will engage worship leaders in worship design that emphasizes broad participation, artistic collaboration and multi-cultural Christian practices, that encourages habits of reflection and evaluation and that provides opportunities to come together for reflection and sharing what is being learned and experienced within each congregation.
First African Church
To immerse the congregation and local partnering churches in a process of intergenerational, collaborative thinking and reflective negotiation that will engage the full participation of all worshipers in learning what it means to be an African-centered worshiping community connecting ancestral memory to prophetic vision.
First Union Church
To develop celebrations of the milestones of the Christian faith that can be used in worship by engaging the congregation in an intergenerational yearlong study that will identify important events of faith formation, consider how we are formed by the Spirit during these events and how the congregation can celebrate these milestones.
Carey Theological College
To equip pastors and worship leaders in the free church tradition to recover the observance of the Church Year through a series of workshops and seminars to shape the worship life and spiritual formation of adults and children.
Vancouver, british columbia
