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  • Home
  • Lifelong Faith Team
  • Designing Faith Formation
  • Children's Faith Formation
    • Children's Resources
    • Clinic Videos
  • Adolescent Faith Formation
    • Adolescent Resources
  • Young Adult Faith Formation
  • Adult Faith Formation
    • Adult Resources
    • Clinic Videos
  • Family Faith Formation
    • Family Resources
    • Clinic Videos
  • Intergenerational Faith Formation
    • Intergenerational Resources
    • Clinic Videos
  • Milestones Faith Formation
    • Milestones Resources
    • Clinic Videos
  • Community & Relationships
    • Building Community Resources
    • Clinic Videos
  • Faith Formation Pathways
    • Pathways Resources
    • Clinic Videos
  • Faith Formation Playlists
    • Playlist Resources
    • Clinic Videos
  • Hybrid Faith Formation Design
  • Lifelong Faith Formation Models
  • Organization & Planning
  • Implementing a Plan
    • Clinic Videos
Lifelong Faith Training

Welcome to Lifelong Faith. . . 

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Welcome to Lifelong Faith Training 
Our Free Video-Based Training to Guide Leaders in
Designing & Leading Faith Formation with All Ages & Generations

Our goal at Lifelong Faith Training is to equip leaders with the knowledge, practices, and skills for designing, leading, and organizing lifelong faith formation in their churches using our free video-based training developed by the Lifelong Faith Team of veteran faith formation leaders. Each video program is one hour in length, presented in multiple parts for easy viewing, and includes a design tools and a "Resources" page with articles, strategies, and programming examples. ​

​​The 14 video programs are designed for "just in time" learning so that you and your team can watch a video presentation and use the tools to design programming. The videos and accompanying resources can be used in a variety of ways, for example: 
  • For personal enrichment and on-your-own learning 
  • For training your volunteer leaders and faith formation teams
  • For preparing to design faith formation initiatives and programming
  • For facilitating a course or workshop

And we are offering one-hour consultation sessions with our Lifelong Faith Team member who created the training program. If you are interested just click on the link in each of the programs and set up a time for your consultation. For one hour of personalized consultation the cost is $100.  

Discover how the 14 training programs can help you & your leaders!

Designing Faith Formation
Discover the principles, practices, and tools for designing faith formation . . . . 

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​Children's Faith Formation
​with Dr. Tanya Campen
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Adolescent Faith Formation
​with Rev. Michael Droege
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Young Adult Faith Formation
with Sarah Jarzembowski
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Adult Faith Formation
​with Janet Schaeffler, OP
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Family Faith Formation
​with Denise Utter
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Intergenerational Faith Formation
with Dr. Kathie Amidei
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Milestones Faith Formation
​ with Debbie Streicher
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Building Community & Relationships ​
​with Jane Angha
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Hybrid Faith Formation
​with John Roberto
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Faith Formation Pathways
​with Rev. Kathy Pittenger
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Faith Formation Playlists
​with Rev. Kathy Pittenger

Leading & Organizing Faith Formation
Discover the approaches, skills, and tools for leading and organizing. . . .

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Models of Lifelong Faith Formation
with Catherine LaVecchia
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From Design to Implementation
with Jim Merhaut
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Organizing for Faith Formation
with Rev. Christine Hides

Lifelong Faith - Websites & Resources

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LifelongFaith.com is designed around the seven elements of lifelong faith formation in the new book, Lifelong Faith: Formation with All Ages and Generations. to assist you in using the book and online resources to create lifelong faith formation in your church.

In addition, the Lifelong Faith Library includes all of the WHAT IF... articles, the six Lifelong Faith Books available to download for free, the back issues of the Lifelong Faith Journal, and the 2021 Webinarvideos and handouts for our sponsoring organizations. ​

​The 
Lifelong Faith book and the LifelongFaith.com website work together to guide you in developing lifelong faith formation in your church community. 
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The Lifelong Faith Studio provides curated digital resources - from a variety of Christian faith traditions - for children, adolescents, adults, and families ​to assist leaders in building networks of faith formation and playlists of learning. ​

​The curated resources in the Studio are organized around the ten goals for maturing in faith described in the Lifelong Faith book.
  1. Bible
  2. Christian Story
  3. Community Life 
  4. Jesus
  5. Discipleship
  6. Gifts & Talents
  7. Justice & Service
  8. Moral Life
  9. Prayer
  10. Worship & Liturgy
In addition there are resources for Life Stages & Transitions, and the Seasons of the Year. ​

We have selected a variety of digital resources that are either free or low cost that you can use to develop online faith formation programming for all ages in your faith community in virtual and blended settings. 

The resources listed can be used in designing online and hybrid faith formation programming and playlists, and adding content to faith formation websites for children, adolescents, adults, families, and all generations.
LifelongFaithStudio.com
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​Lifelong Faith: Formation for All Ages and Generations
 presents a vision and practices for developing lifelong faith formation using seven key elements: 
  1. Goals for maturing in faith
  2. Practices for forming a Christian way of life
  3. Intergenerational faith formation through Christian community
  4. Family faith formation with three generations
  5. Networks for forming faith with all ages: children, adolescents, adults, and families
  6. Pathways for personalizing faith formation
  7. Playlists for engaging people of all ages in faith formation 
The Lifelong Faith book describes how to integrate the elements into a network plan and how to create a model of lifelong faith formation. The book concludes with chapters on building capacity for lifelong faith formation and the emerging roles for leaders in lifelong faith formation. ​
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​This website is developed by John Roberto as a service of Lifelong Faith Associates - committed to helping churches develop lifelong faith formation for all ages and generations.
John Roberto
 Lifelong Faith Associates
133 Old Towne Road, Cheshire, CT 06410
203-232-1129
​  jroberto@lifelongfaith.com