Samples of resources are available for download.
Visit Faith Practices Resources for a more complete description of the shape of the resources.
Please help create resources for Faith Practices.
Please download the Faith Practices Community Process. Convene a group in your church to explore one faith practice and submit your ideas to guide writers as we create these resources. You may submit your ideas via email (ostermik@ucc.org), or by signing into the Faith Practices Community Wiki.
In order to join the community of those contributing to the resources you must register and sign in to the United Church Practices of Faith Wiki.
Local churches are invited to learn more about becoming Faith Practices Development Partners.
If you are from a local church or are a denominational partner and have already registered please visit our
Community Pages
Seeking Creative Writers
The Pilgrim Press in conjunction with the United Church of Christ seeks creative, innovative, and energetic writers to participate in the creation of a new on-line resource called Faith Practices: Worship, Learning, and Serving for Vital Congregations. This is an excellent opportunity to use your gifts to serve the entire church and beyond.
Writers work collaboratively with other team members beginning with a Writers' Conference. We recruit two teams of writers each year. Writers' Conferences will be held in May and September. Writers receive a modest honorarium.
We need writers with skills and experience in these areas:
· Worship, Music, Arts, and Story
· Adults
· Seekers and New Church Participants
· Young Adults
· Older Youth
· Younger Youth
· Older Children
· Younger Children
· Multiage and Intergenerational
· Living Practices in Daily Lives
· Workshop Rotation
· UCC Denominational Identity & History
To express your interest in being a writer or an editor or to get more information, contact Patrice L. Rosner, the managing editor, by email at prosner@faithpractices.org or by phone at 636-257-6506.
To apply, complete the writer and editor application form:
http://www.ucc.org/education/practices/files/Writer-Editor-Application-Electronic-Form.doc
Faith Practices is a new project of the United Church of Christ which will provide resources for worship, learning, and serving, on 24 faith practices. Resources on four practices of faith will become available each year for six years. The resources will be available for use by local churches beginning in September 2010.
Meeting the writing consultants for "Giving and Receiving Hospitality" and "Keeping Sabbath".
The table below reflects the practices and when resources will become available for each.
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Introducing Practices
Experiencing Practices
Deepening Practices
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2010-2011
4 Practices |
2011-2012
8 Practices |
2012-2013
12 Practices |
2013-2014
16 Practices |
2014-2015
20 Practices |
2015-2016
24 Practices |
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6-12 weeks |
Forming Community:
Giving and Receiving Hospitality |
Living as a People of Story:
Encountering Scripture |
Worshiping: Experiencing Beauty |
Forming Community:
Welcoming Diversity |
Living as a People of Story:
Telling the Story |
Worshiping: Worshiping Together |
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6-12 weeks |
Being Stewards:
Living Stewardship |
Engaging Others Faithfully:
Giving Testimony and Witness |
Discerning: Discovering Gifts of Ministry |
Being Stewards:
Caring for Creation |
Engaging Others Faithfully:
Speaking the Truth in Love |
Discerning:
Listening with the Heart |
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6-12 weeks |
Centering Life:
Keeping Sabbath |
Responding to the Holy: Praying and Making Ritual |
Forgiving and Blessing:
Blessing and Letting Go |
Centering Life:
Living Simply |
Responding to the Holy: Contemplating, Reflecting, Being Still |
Forgiving and Blessing:
Experiencing Reconciliation |
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6-12 weeks |
Living Creatively:
Playing and Living Joyfully |
Working for a Just and Loving World:
Working for Justice |
Living in Wholeness:
Honoring the body |
Living Creatively:
Expressing Creativity |
Working for a Just and Loving World:
Engaging in Mission |
Living in Wholeness:
Giving Care and Healing |
