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Our Mission:
The Youth & Family Institute's mission is to equip families to pass on faith and live well in Jesus Christ. |
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Our Vision:
The Youth & Family Institute offers research-based new visions for
empowering ministry with families and individuals to live out their
baptismal call into the world. The Institute trains church leaders,
lay volunteers and church professionals, to equip families to pass on
faith. The Institute provides coaching, training, and resources for
the home and congregation. The Institute will focus on faith nurture
and living well in Christ during the first third of life, recognizing
that nurturing faith in adults and helping them live well in Christ
is essential to nurture faith in the next generation.
Core Values:
Believing that a transformative faith in Jesus Christ is created by
Word and Sacrament, and formed by the Holy Spirit through personal,
trusted relationships, The Youth & Family Institute values:
* Family as inclusive, relational, and intergenerational
* Home as church, too
* Understanding that the first third of life is a primary time for coming to faith,congregational ministry
equips families to pass on faith in the home and in daily life
* Peers ministering to one another
* Living well in Christ in body, mind, and spirit
* Ministry, informed by research, that provides practical application
* Excellence, innovation, and financial vitality, so that ministry can thrive
* Justice and mercy
