children, youth - Zumbro Lutheran Church

March 25, 2012
rethinking
CHILDREN, YOUTH &
FAMILY MINISTRY
at Zumbro Lutheran
The Tale of Two Tables
http://stickyfaith.org/videos/a-tale-of-two-tables
Growing Faith Filled Families
Families
Together
Rooted in
Scripture
Engaging the
World
Learning Kris Oppegard
Worship & Devotion Janette Reeves
Mission & Service Lisa Kipp
Growing Faith Filled Families
Families
Together
Rooted in
Scripture
Learning
Kris Oppegard
Engaging the
World
Families
Together
Learning
Sunday Morning
Summer Celebration Event
Palm Sunday Family Brunch: April 1
Good Earth Village Family Camp: August 10-12, 2012
Learning
Rooted in
Scripture
Sunday School, Confirmation
ZLC Text Message with GIFT on Sundays
GIFT parent Bible and book studies on Wednesdays
High School Youth Group, Bible Study, Youth Forum
Children’s Time +Plus+
Learning
Engaging the
World
Raising up leaders here at Zumbro and in the world
Peer Ministry Leadership Training
Good Earth Village envisions
congregations and communities
filled with leaders transforming the
world by living like Jesus.
Growing Faith Filled Families
Families
Together
Rooted in
Scripture
Engaging the
World
Worship & Devotion
Janette Reeves
Families
Together
Worship & Devotion
Family Friendly Worship Planning
Children’s Time: Doing “the wave” in worship!
Experiential Worship
Worship & Devotion
Rooted in
Scripture
A clearer message is sent when we focus:
Worship, Sunday School, Children’s Time, Club Z, little z
October 2: Are we building in love?
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Bible Verse: We praise God for the wonderful
kindness he has poured on us because we belong
to his beloved Son. Eph 1:6
Fall 2011
Song: Love, love, love, that’s what it’s all about…
Activity: Every week each child received a
cardboard block as we discussed all the things we
build in the world and at church. Together we built
a cardboard heart on the floor.
Worship & Devotion
Engaging the
World
Worship: It’s not just in the Sanctuary anymore!
Practice seeing God in the world: God Sighting Bingo
VBS music cds in the car year round.
How about for Sunday School music?
Club Z, little z
Real Kids, Real Faith: Importance of having real conversations relating the Bible
and faith with real life and things that matter in the world to kids right now.
“Instead of using human development theories to focus on
children’s deficiencies … we need to use this research to help us, as
adults, understand how children can, in fact, be faithful.”
Growing Faith Filled Families
Families
Together
Rooted in
Scripture
Engaging the
World
Mission & Service
Lisa Kipp
Families
Together
Mission & Service
Not just for teenagers anymore.
Create opportunities for families to serve together.
Love Your Neighbor Day: February 20, 2012
Family Mission Trip:
Midwest Hunger Tour: August 22-25, 2012
Have intentional conversations with parents before and
after they send their youth on mission trips.
Rooted in
Scripture
Mission & Service
Dr. David Lose suggests “making two inter-related shifts that will
help us reclaim Scripture as God’s living and active Word: first moving
from valuing the Bible for its information to valuing it for its capacity
to make an invitation, and second transforming our viewing the Bible
as history to receiving it as story” (David Lose, The Greatest Story Never
Told: Engaging Christians of All Ages with the Bible, 3).
Dwell in the Word together. Let the same text speak over and over.
Jamaica Mission Trip: Luke 10:1-11, Jesus sends out his disciples
MN Mission Blitz: Matthew 22:34-40, The greatest commandment
Love Your Neighbor Day: Luke 10:25-37, The good Samaritan
Reference Scripture as our story while serving and reflecting.
Engaging the
World
Mission & Service
In partnership with Zumbro’s Mission & Outreach Team.
Being engaged in mission is about doing God’s work, not
about feeling good about ourselves.
Mission is not a trip or a youth activity, a silent cousin to evangelism,
or an optional model of youth ministry. Mission is the business that
congregations are in. Christ views young people as participants in
God’s mission rather than as targets of ours. p97
We frequently say “the church has a mission,” according to missional
theology a more correct statement would be ‘God’s mission has a
church.” p90
Family Ministry Weekly E-Mail Update
What does this mean for you?
What
does
this
mean
for
you?
What does this mean for you?
March 25, 2012
rethinking
CHILDREN, YOUTH &
FAMILY MINISTRY
at Zumbro Lutheran